NY Times has not learnt that "prevention is better than the cure" .....

because only when the cat's out of the bag, they think it's time to disclose the nations of the "donors" that helped ISIS/ISIL Syria.   If the MSM had pointed fingers from way back in 2011 about the reality of the Syrian "rebels" and informed the masses that the Syrian  "rebels" were nothing but terrorists given another name because USA and her allies were hoping the "rebels" would overthrow Assad, the world might have been spared what we are seeing today.  

I, for one, am blaming the MSM, USA, Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Middle East sheikhdoms for the deaths of hundreds of thousands and for the refugees created. For Syria alone, the refugee numbers have reached close to 3 Million. Try imagining yourself in their shoes.  And, this mass suffering brought about all because Israel and Saudi Arabia fear that Shiite Muslims are coming after them with nuclear bombs. Just like how the world has been made to view Russia as Enemy #1, starting with all those Bond movies, the world has been made to think Iran will nuke Israel and Sunni countries.  The world of media is the main culprit for both those misinformation pieces.

Give credit where it's due though,  the writer below is one of the very few at NY Times that has disclosed Kuwait's involvement earlier than this article.  However, nobody but NOBODY at the NY Times, or anywhere else for that matter, questions why Israel bombed Syria on several separate occasions, and "coincidentally" those several separate occasions were just when Syria was looking to gain the upper hand on the "rebels" the Assad government continues to fight to this day. The latest foray from Israel was bombardment of 9 Syrian military sites on June 22,  using one of the millions of pretexts available to that country and to that country alone.

Our brave new world of extremely brave journalists worth their weight in stinking waste.

Ben Hubbard writing at NYTimes:
As Syria’s civil war raged, a Kuwaiti Islamist, Ghanim al-Mteiri, funneled cash from wealthy donors in the Persian Gulf to Syria’s affiliate of Al Qaeda in hopes that it would overthrow the government and lay the foundations of an Islamic state.

So Mr. Mteiri watched in dismay as another, even more violent jihadist organization, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, seized a chunk of Syria, stormed into Iraq and not only declared itself an Islamic state, but also demanded that all Muslims swear allegiance to its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

For the first time since its emergence more than two decades ago, the Qaeda of Osama bin Laden finds itself facing a rival jihadist organization with the resources and influence to threaten its status as the flagship movement of violent extremism. For the moment, Al Qaeda has lost ground, but the question remains: Will this new group, which now calls itself simply the Islamic State, endure?

Those still allied with Al Qaeda think the new group will fall victim to the same tactics that somehow have simultaneously made it an enemy of the West and of Ayman al-Zawahri, the leader of Al Qaeda.

“We all dream of an Islamic state, but we want a political Islam that is able to stand up and not be erased from the map,” Mr. Mteiri said. “The great powers will never accept this, and they are bigger and stronger than ISIS.”

Although many dismissed as propaganda ISIS’ announcement on Sunday that it had established a caliphate — or global Islamic state — the group’s out-of-nowhere rise in just over one year has created a clash over ideology and tactics between partisans of the world’s two leading jihadist organizations. It also has created a generational split as ISIS has electrified a new group of radical jihadists with its emphasis on sectarian warfare and founding an Islamic state........