article_snippet.sent: The lack of accountability in the aftermath of the American intervention in Iraq not only paved the way for abuses like Abu Ghraib and Blackwater, Iraq also fuelled sectarian tension in Iraq -- and today ISIS is reaping the benefits.
article_snippet.sent: The U.S. poured money into Iraq after the 2003 invasion, but The U.S. did not make this support contingent upon a fair distribution of power and resources by the Iraqi government.
article_snippet.sent: This enabled the Iraqi government to discriminate against the Sunni community.
article_snippet.sent: The U.S. also turned a blind eye to the way The U.S. own troops were treating Iraqis.
article_snippet.sent: All those factors contributed to a rising sense of injustice that is now being conveniently packaged by ISIS to push ISIS own version of Iraqi history.
article_snippet.sent: The U.S. ended up as a result of Iraqi Sunnis who resisted the U.S. betrayal by Shiites who collaborated with the Americans.
article_snippet.sent: The publication then presents the Sahwa (Awakening) of 2007 -- when Sunni tribes collaborated with The U.S. to fight AQI -- as a case of intra-Sunni resentment that led Sunni tribes to hand over AQI members "to the Americans, where Sunni tribes were put through severe torture in the likes of the prisons of Abu Ghraib," according to The publication.
article_snippet.sent: The civilians killed by the Blackwater guards, like the Abu Ghraib prisoners, were both Sunni and Shiite.
article_snippet.sent: But the repackaging of history by ISIS -- in which the Saddam Hussein regime is reinvented as a "Sunni" regime that tried to stand up to the United States and the United States Shiite allies -- glosses over those nuances.
highlights_snippet.sent: ISIS is using past Western transgressions in Iraq to justify ISIS brutality .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Lack of accountability following 2003 invasion paved way for abuse -- and for sectarian tensions .