Al-Qaeda took control of the platform and announced Friday in Fallujah city, "the state Islamic"

[yota691]

01/03/2014 20:54

Al-Qaeda took control of the platform and announced Friday in Fallujah city, "the state Islamic"

 

 

Baghdad / follow-up the obelisk: witness told Agence France-Presse that al-Qaeda announced Friday the city of Fallujah and the Islamic state and called the police and staff to return to work "under their mandate." 
the agency quoted eyewitness as saying that "after the end of Friday prayers in Fallujah Friday surrounded hundreds of militants masked yard prayer and they turn off the cameras and boarded a number of them carrying banners of al-Qaida on the platform Khatib. " 
He continued, "spoke one of them saying: announce Fallujah mandate of Islamic and invite you to stand by us, and we are here to defend you against the army of (Prime Minister Nuri) al-Maliki, the Iranian Safavid, and we call on all employees to return to their work until the police on the condition that they are under the rule of our state. " 
This was the organization's al-Qaeda took advantage of Thursday to evacuate the police forces to their positions in Fallujah and Ramadi and preoccupation with the army to fight the militants, tribal naysayers disperse a sit-Sunni anti-government on Monday, to impose its control over some areas of the two cities. 
was Security sources responsible stressed that "half of Fallujah in the hands of a group (Daash) and the other half in the hands of" insurgents tribal anti-al-Qaeda and who fought the army over the past few days in protest against the resolution of the protest. " 
and evacuated Square sit-in, which closed the highway near Ramadi, leading to Syria and Jordan for the year, in a peaceful manner on Monday, but the militants Sunni tribes outs to lift the sit-in launched retaliatory attacks against the forces of the army. 
was Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, in an attempt to defuse tensions security in Anbar far end the strike against him, called on Tuesday the army to withdraw from cities However, he fell on his decision Wednesday, declaring send additional troops to the province after the entry of al-Qaeda elements on the front line. 
was Anbar province inhabited by a majority of the year and shared with Syria up to about 300 km, one of the main strongholds of al-Qaida in the years that followed the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and even the formation of the Sunni Awakening forces in September 2006. 
constitute control of al-Qaeda on some areas of Fallujah, an exceptional event to afford this city, which has fought two wars Hrstein with U.S. forces in 2004 from a private symbolism.

Edited January 3, 2014 by yota691

[SnowGlobe7]

If even al Quaeda hates Maliki....and we hate Maliki......ummmmm this is not looking good if I understand this report.

If a civil war breaks out...we may all be out of luck

Those poor people

[yota691]

One more..

Al-Qaeda controlled areas in Ramadi and Fallujah and security forces battling to recover

- JANUARY 2, 2014

Ramadi (Iraq), - (AFP) - embroiled in the Iraqi security forces and gunmen belonging to the tribal Thursday clashes with elements of al-Qaeda have taken control of areas in the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi in Anbar province, just days after the removal of the camp anti-government there.

And took advantage of the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" ("Daash") of the al-Qaeda today the evacuation centers for the police forces in Fallujah, Ramadi and the army is busy fighting tribal militants who refuse to break up the sit-in, to impose its control over some areas of the two cities.

Said Capt. Marei al-Alwani of the Ramadi police (100 kilometers) west of Baghdad, told AFP, "began clashes between tribes and the police on the one hand, and al-Qaeda on the other hand, in the east of the city."

In Fallujah (60 km) west of Baghdad, said Maj. Gen. Fadhil Barwari said in a statement posted on the special operations "Now we have entered into Fallujah in violent clashes," without specifying who entered into force them to Fallujah or the party that clashes are taking place with him.

An official source at the Interior Ministry confirmed to AFP earlier in the day that "half of Fallujah in the hands of a group + Daash +, and the other half in the hands of" militants, tribal anti-al-Qaeda and who fought the army over the past few days in protest against the resolution of the sit-Sunni in Anbar on Monday .

An eyewitness of the population of Fallujah, told AFP that "al-Qaeda control points reside in the center of Fallujah and in the south," adding, "We see five or seven armed men at every checkpoint."

In parallel, the spread of armed organization "Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant" in different districts in the east of Ramadi, according to an AFP correspondent reported in the city.

The reporter explained that "about 60 cars, each carrying on board about ten heavily armed gunmen hoist flags + Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant + roam several districts in the east of Ramadi, the center of the absence of the police."

He added that "most of masked gunmen, some of whom wore the uniform of Afghanistan," he said, adding that the cars broadcast songs glorifying the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant", says some "Mansoura our nation" and "state of Islam remain."

The head of the Iraqi Awakening Conference Ahmed Abu Risha, a prominent leader of the Awakening movement, which is battling al-Qaeda in Anbar, Iraq, face Wednesday evening speech to the population of the province announced the entry of al-Qaeda fighters to Fallujah and Ramadi.

Abu Risha said in a speech published by the site and the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, "two days before the central government has responded to the request of the Senate, who wanted him to withdraw the army from the cities."

"What the government has even surprised implementation criminals and al Qaeda leave the desert and enter your cities, the city of Fallujah and Ramadi, and roam the streets and stature reviewers swords and guns to come back a second time to exercise their crimes."

He continued, "Yes, they have returned to A_hawwa sabotage your blood and your homes, yes they appeared again has pleased the public appearances after he failed to disclose our organs intelligence about them, and with the help of God, we are addressing by experienced them."

He called Abu Risha "sons of the tribes to return to their homes and leave the street to the base, which will be a decisive confrontation with them this time."

The Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, in an attempt to defuse tensions in Anbar security far end the strike against him, called on Tuesday the army to withdraw from cities, but returned and reversed his decision on Wednesday, declaring send additional troops to the province.

The security sources confirmed to AFP the army in the non-existence of the two cities, was not clear fact the arrival of military reinforcements to the province, a witness told AFP that "more tanks arrived on the outskirts of Fallujah to Baghdad on one hand."

A day after the burning of insurgents in Ramadi, four police stations and the smuggling of prisoners from the Directorate of Police in Fallujah, called the Iraqi Interior Ministry said in a statement today police officers who have left their headquarters to return immediately to these centers, threatening to hold accountable "negligent" of them.

It is noteworthy that the resolution of the protest of anti-authority controlled by Shiites on Monday, there was no confrontation with the demonstrators, who looked as if they Akhloh after reaching an agreement between the Authority and the tribes has not been announced.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the Shiite who has ruled the country since 2006, it was considered more than a week ago that the Square sit-in turned into the headquarters of the Sunni al-Qaeda, giving protesters the "very shortly" to withdraw them before moving to the armed forces to end it.

The warnings came Maliki the day after the death of the commander of the seventh division in the army, along with four other officers and ten soldiers during broke into a camp for al-Qaeda in the western Anbar province, which is witnessing since military operations aimed at Qaeda camps along the border with Syria, which extends for about 600 km.

[sandfly]

THEY NEED TO GET OFF THERE BUTTS AND TAKE IT BACK

[yota691]

Iraqi security source said that the high-level city of Fallujah has become outside the control of the state and the displacement of hundreds of families

 

   

Posted       04/01/2014 07:45 AM

 

BAGHDAD - "arenas of Liberation"

The security source said a senior Iraqi told the French press that the city of Fallujah has become outside the control of the state, began displacement of hundreds of families out of the city of Fallujah, because of the deteriorating security situation in the city and the scarcity of goods and food in it.

Most of the displaced families are residents of reviving the military and Aljughaifi and martyrs and continue to the south and east of the city of Fallujah, because of the indiscriminate shelling mortar in addition to the armed clashes that occur between now and then between army troops and gunmen in the city.

The city of Fallujah are suffering from severe shortages in food and agricultural products in addition to the scarcity of fuel and the high prices are fictional, what caused a major humanitarian crisis in the city.

The city suffers from the siege and closure of ports to the city a week ago, despite appeals clerics and tribal leaders and citizens to allow the entry of goods and food to the city and lift the siege.

Edited January 4, 2014 by yota691

[RicknSaudi]

THEY NEED TO GET OFF THERE BUTTS AND TAKE IT BACK

 

Yea sandfly, that would be the desirable position, but the average Iraqi must be very confused as to where to place their loyalties.  Thay may want a democracy as a whole, but without a democratically minded PM and cabinet, the people will weigh whatever options present themselves.

 

Civil war?  Maybe.  I just don't think we will let it get to that point.  I would have hoped that the rest of the arab world would have had more of a positive influence (given the interest of proximity).

 

I'm just afraid that things will plug along status quo for years with only miniscule and incremental changes.  Probably not fast enough to keep Al-kookoo from raising plenty of hell.

 

JMO

[yota691]

I don't think this day and age the Term Civil War actually exist, IMO If one looks referencing the Eyes of Bill Clinton the Founder..CEO... when it comes to the term and the use to be Political Correct (that's how it's done today)  and how it being used to destroy everything even words...in which IMO don't think it can be used...(rant here).....when you have this Country and that Country supplying the Armour and the Intelligence, $$$ and the say so in different regions....don't think it can be call something it seems...but lets hope it will subside... don't think it will ever go away..Let's Pray that it does...Flatdawg seems to have a Great knowledge on the subject....something brewing..and it not Good...

Edited January 4, 2014 by yota691

[Mammaw]

al-Qaeda?    This has to be smoke and screens. Nothing to worry about. Obama said there was no more al-Qaeda, didn't he? 

 

Actually I was rather hoping Putin would take care of them. He seems to be the one in charge these days...IMO of course. 

[ronscarpa]

 

Al-Qaida Fighters Take Control of Fallujah as Iraq Army Attacks
3 January 2013

 

Friday, 03 Jan 2014 11:15 PM

 

Al-Qaida-linked militants held control of much of the Iraqi city of Fallujah and other nearby towns, fighting off efforts by troops with air support to regain control, according to a witness.

 

The al-Qaida fighters have seized military equipment provided by the U.S. Marines to Fallujah police, whose headquarters have been seized, Uthman Mohamed, a local reporter in the city in Iraq’s western Anbar province, said in a phone interview late yesterday. There’s no sign of government forces inside Fallujah, and most of the fighting is taking place on a highway that links the city to Baghdad, he said.

 

Halima Ahmed, a health official in the province, said by phone that the death toll in Fallujah in the past three days of fighting has reached 36, mostly civilians killed by army shelling. The military also has carried out air strikes targeting suspected al-Qaida fighters, Al Jazeera said.

Fallujah became notorious among Americans when insurgents in 2004 killed four American security contractors and hung their burned bodies from a bridge. It, the provincial capital Ramadi and other cities were repeatedly battlegrounds for the following years, as sectarian bloodshed mounted.

The town also was the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the Iraq War. Nearly 100 U.S. Marines were killed and hundreds wounded in the second battle of Fallujah in 2004.
 

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sent reinforcements on Jan. 1 to dislodge militants from Fallujah and nearby Ramadi, a focus of the 2007 “surge” of U.S. forces. The fighting there is part of an escalation of violence in Iraq, where 2013 saw the most civilian casualties for five years amid the kind of sectarian violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims that also has engulfed Syria and Lebanon.

The war to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a member of the Alawite offshoot of Shiite Islam who’s backed by Iran, is being fought by largely Sunni rebels supported by Saudi Arabia, the region’s biggest Sunni power.

 

The Sunni gunmen in Anbar, which neighbors Syria, are linked to an al-Qaida affiliate called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which is also fighting Assad. The U.S. has stepped up arms supplies to help Maliki’s Shiite-led government suppress the group, agreeing to send helicopters, missiles and surveillance drones.

 

While President Barack Obama has declined to intervene directly in the Syrian war, the U.S. may come under increasing pressure to contain the fallout from that conflict if the al-Qaida militants gain a foothold in western Iraq, Ryan Crocker, a former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, said in an interview.

 

“If al-Qaida manages to really take hold of western Iraq, that’s a pretty substantial base on Arab territory, where they’d have security and the space to start thinking about operations wherever they want to think about,” said Crocker who served as U.S. ambassador to Iraq from 2007 to 2009. “It’s exactly what they had in Afghanistan before 9/11.”

 

Civilian Deaths

 

There is little support in the U.S. for renewed military involvement in Iraq, where 4,489 Americans were killed and 51,778 wounded in action after the Bush administration invaded the country almost 11 years ago. Obama has listed ending the war in Iraq as one of his main accomplishments.

 

Civilian fatalities in Iraq, including police, totaled 7,818 last year, with almost 18,000 wounded, according to the United Nations Assistance Misison for Iraq.

 

The Pentagon is “keeping an eye on the situation,” a spokesman, Army Colonel Steve Warren, told reporters in Washington yesterday. He said the U.S. is providing assistance to Iraqi authorities in accordance with the security framework agreement between the countries, without giving details.

 

So far, the violence hasn’t affected Iraq’s major oil fields, the country’s main source of revenue. Output rose by 100,000 barrels a day last month to 3.2 million barrels, the most since August, according to a Bloomberg survey. The country pumped more crude as it increased links to wells in its predominately Shiite south. Iraq is the second-biggest producer in OPEC after Saudi Arabia.

 

Anbar province has been a battleground pitting the army, assisted by some Sunni tribesmen, against militants who have torched buildings and police stations. Maliki also faces political unrest, with 44 members of Iraq’s parliament resigning because the government used force to dismantle Sunni-led protests.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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[dontlop]

I pick Iraqi military to win this

Alkieda will take its desired dirt nap

It seems like some kind of death wish either by the Sunni terrorists or Iranian terrorists trying to start a civil war

Iran doesn't like taking a back seat to Iraq but it's too bad. What's done is done

I think Iran is pretending to be friends with Iraq so they won't be suspected

How many Iranian ieds were found in Iraq in the last ten years

Saudi Arabia doesn't like Iraq on the same stage as them either

All those dictators are the same they think they are going to take over the world some day

It will never happen both sides of those wars are financed heavily everytime they go at one another

To arm. Both sides to eliminate as many as possible so it's less population to take care of

They can't kill them themselves like they used to and bury them in mass graves

So they start wars with each other constantly for population control

While the kings and dictators live it up

[one4dinar]

If even al Quaeda hates Maliki....and we hate Maliki......ummmmm this is not looking good if I understand this report.

If a civil war breaks out...we may all be out of luck

Those poor people

All our soldiers who died or are crippled in Fallujah and other parts of Iraq, for What? This loser "president" when he took office just let it all go to hell. Obama left Iraq to make it by themselves. Evil as he is, he certainly didn't want to do anything to make Bush look good. So now after thousands of lives and billions or trillions of dollars, Iraq is back where it started just with a different dictator. I remember they had a KFC in Fallujah. I feel for the Iraqi people, it doesn't matter if its Sunni or Shiites the people are doomed.

[MyLadiesDaddy]

You really think that Iraq is about to crumble to pieces? I suppose that anything

is possible but I just don't buy it. It wasn't just our boys that paid the price, nor was

it just our money. Nearly every country on this planet had something to do with what

happened in Iraq and I don't believe that one dictator wannabe named Maliki has

the power to tell everyone to kiss his butt. More likely what were witnessing today

is the utter chaos that has long been foretold to precede an RV. Let us not forget

all the other articles we've recently seen touting the implementation and passing

of so many projects and laws. Furthermore, lets remember that the forces against

an RV are many and strong. Do we really think Iran is going to quietly sit by and say

nothing as Iraq rises to a world power? In the end though Iraq (Babylon) will rise.

[JayLay]

Adam - any thoughts on this?

[uncirculd]

I pick Iraqi military to win this

Alkieda will take its desired dirt nap

It seems like some kind of death wish either by the Sunni terrorists or Iranian terrorists trying to start a civil war

Iran doesn't like taking a back seat to Iraq but it's too bad. What's done is done

I think Iran is pretending to be friends with Iraq so they won't be suspected

How many Iranian ieds were found in Iraq in the last ten years

Saudi Arabia doesn't like Iraq on the same stage as them either

All those dictators are the same they think they are going to take over the world some day

It will never happen both sides of those wars are financed heavily everytime they go at one another

To arm. Both sides to eliminate as many as possible so it's less population to take care of

They can't kill them themselves like they used to and bury them in mass graves

So they start wars with each other constantly for population control

While the kings and dictators live it up

Donlop, this synopsis is better than the other thread of Fallujah.  Plus 1 friend, two if i could.

[outlawclg]

Get a bunch of  Al-Qaeda together and wipe them out at one time.  They will not hold.  Iraq (and friends) will take them out.  There is too much to lose. This is a desperate act before Iraq truly becomes powerful, and international.

[MyLadiesDaddy]

Get a bunch of  Al-Qaeda together and wipe them out at one time.  They will not hold.  Iraq (and friends) will take them out.  There is too much to lose. This is a desperate act before Iraq truly becomes powerful, and international.

I believe that is exactly what this is but I always have been an optimist. LOL

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

***///

 

We're still thinking there is a link betwixt  IRAN - AL QAEDA - MALIKI...

 

the trouble afoot in Iraq with the terrorists is "advantage maliki" somehow....

[SnowGlobe7]

***///

 

We're still thinking there is a link betwixt  IRAN - AL QAEDA - MALIKI...

 

the trouble afoot in Iraq with the terrorists is "advantage maliki" somehow....

 

I really want you to be wrong....but I have had the same thought

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

I really want you to be wrong....but I have had the same thought

***///

 

Ever since we were aware of maliki climbing deep into bed with the Iranians,

we figured he was their puppet in Iraq - not that other puppet hobummer's - puppet in Iraq.

 

But then again with the latter's puppet strings tied to those who pull them wanting the discord in the region, it's all inter-connected for THEIR war-mongering benefit, not the Iraqi people's.

 

Whatta mess.

[PTguy]

When Iraq RV's, they will have plenty of spending money to hire Merc's to take care of these kind of inconveniences, I don't see their Army stepping up to do to much of the dirty work and pay the price to fight for themselves. They will do what the rest of the rich Arab's do, pay to have their problems to be taken care of. The US has been training their army and police forever, but you cant coach heart. Maybe when they actually get some real freedom and a solvent currency they will have more to fight for.

[waterman13]

This is not good. What's with the talks between Iran and US about jointly going after Al-Qaeda? Something is fishy here. My brother told me today that the US is in talks with Iran about this. Anyone else heard that? I smell something fishy.

Wm13

[uncirculd]

grrrrr..ughhhh...... I want to say " I am Robot " .....so crazy.   So are they still fighting to make the M.E. islamic, cause in case they didn't notice, it's pretty much predominately Islamic.  The problem is their Islamist and other Islamist don't have the same views.  Like other religions.  They need to get over it and find a place to land and try living with love instead of prejudice and hatred.  Ok, so I am asking for a miracle.  I will keep asking and asking, and asking, and asking, until divine intervention stops all the evils.  

This is not good. What's with the talks between Iran and US about jointly going after Al-Qaeda? Something is fishy here. My brother told me today that the US is in talks with Iran about this. Anyone else heard that? I smell something fishy.

Wm13

My friend I have read tibits about us doing this crazy talks with Iran.  I have no clue what this administration is up to by giving Iran a pass, but I think we are about to be lied to big time again.