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Shia militia fightback against Isis sees tit-for-tat sectarian massacres of Sunnis
In the Iraqi village of Salam, a Shia Muslim volunteer – Muhammad – cheerfully boasted of killing Islamic State (Isis) fighters. “We slaughtered them! Here let me show you,” he said, grabbing a phone from a friend, before playing a gory video with the headless corpses of Isis militants piled on the bonnet of an American Humvee. Blood dripped from the side of the vehicle; Shia militia cheered in the background.
Near to us, smoke billowed from destroyed houses. All of them belonged to Sunni Muslims. In the neighbouring village of Yangija, someone had shot up the Sunni mosque. Footage uploaded onto YouTube at the time – now deleted – showed two men setting light to the corpse of a bloodied Sunni gunman. Now a framed photo of a Shia imam sat on a table outside, decorated with yellow and green Shia militia flags.
Last June Isis overran large chunks of northern and central Iraq in a spectacular military offensive. After arriving in an area the Sunni fighters typcially burned the homes of Shia families. In Salahaddin province, a major flashpoint, thousands of Shias fled.
Last August, however, militias made up of Shia volunteers like Muhammad and backed by Iran began a fightback. They recaptured villages. They gradually shoved out Isis militants. They also enacted a bloody revenge – carrying out their own sectarian massacres in Sunni areas and torching Sunni property.
The mixed Sunni-Shia communities around Tuz Khormato, south of the Kurdish-controlled city of Kirkuk, have borne the brunt of this brutal offensive. In Salam village – ironically enough it means peace in Arabic – Shia militiamen now roam the streets. They have burned down the homes of Sunni inhabitants, all of whom have now fled.
Muhammad and his Shia militia were manning a checkpoint on a road that goes through two Sunni villages to the frontline towards Tikrit. He said he had come from the capital Baghdad to fight Isis.
Much attention has been focused on Isis’s murderous tactics in territories it controls including the northern city of Mosul – beheadings, summary executions, and edicts on women’s dress. But there has been less reporting on the rise of Shia militia groups following the collapse of the regular Iraqi army in early summer. These groups, with the help of Tehran, have flooded the security vacuum. They have mobilised Shia volunteers and – with the support of Kurdish peshmerga forces – have been retaking towns and villages.
According to Amnesty International, Shia militias have abducted and killed scores of Sunni civilians in recent months, and enjoy total impunity for what are “war crimes”. It says the Iraqi government under prime minister Haider al-Abadi has supported and armed the groups, in effect fuelling a new and dangerous cycle of lawlessness and sectarian mayhem.
Scores of unidentified bodies have been discovered across the country. Many are handcuffed and with gunshot wounds to the head, Amnesty says. These execution-style killings have been carried out in apparent revenge for Isis atrocities.
Militia members now number tens of thousands, Amnesty adds. Typically they wear military uniforms but operate without any official control or legal oversight. “By failing to hold militias accountable for war crimes and other gross human rights abuses the Iraqi authorities have effectively granted them free rein to go on the rampage against Sunnis,” Amnesty’s senior crisis response adviser Donatella Rovera said, in a report last month.
Ordinary Iraqis have been caught in the middle of this escalating Sunni-Shia battle. Abu Ammar, a 33-year-old father of two, said he fled the area and now lives in a small rented house in Kirkuk, under the control of the Kurdish regional government, which has its capital in Irbil. “Shia and Sunnis lived side by side in the village. But when Isis took the village they burned the houses of our Shia neighbours. When the Shia militia forced out the Isis militants, they also torched the houses of Sunnis”.
As the Shia militias grow in power, Iran’s military and religious footprint inside Iraq appears to be getting bigger: one prominent militia is the Khorasani Brigade, which openly swears allegiance to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.
The group intends to establish an Islamic state like the one in Tehran. It uses an emblem on its yellow flag similar to the ones used by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the Hezbollah in Lebanon. A hand firmly holds an AK47, a symbol of resistance.
The brigade’s field commander in the Tuz Khormato area is 30-year-old Juwad al-Husnawi. Husnawi said he had 800 men under his command and had fought alongside Qassem Suleimani – a legendary Iranian general – in both Syria and Iraq. Husnawi recalled an incident when Suleimani personally contacted him in the heat of a recent battle and told him to stand firm until reinforcements turned up.
“The following day he came to the frontline, kissed me on the shoulder and thanked me for holding the line,” Husnawi said. “He is down-to-earth. He will go wherever he is needed. He eats with others and mingles with his fighters. We know him very well and trust him fully.”
Husnawi said he came from a family which had resisted Saddam Hussein. The Baathist regime detained two of his paternal uncles and hanged them in Karbala in 1982 for “anti-government activities”. Husnawi himself is of mixed Iraqi-Iranian parentage and went to school in Iran. His father was active in the opposition against Saddam, which Tehran funded, armed and trained during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
For men like Husnawi, the fight against Isis isn’t just about freeing the land occupied by radical Sunni jihadists. He said the battle was a Manichean struggle between good and evil, that pits Shias, led by Iran, against the enemies of Islam. When asked who these enemies of Islam were, he replied: “America, Israel, Salafis of Saudi Arabia and the Sunni jihadists.” The group’s long-term goal, he said, was to liberate Palestine and to “remove Israel”.
The Shia militia have developed a reputation for brutality. One Kurdish driver who drives an SUV taking passengers from Irbil to Baghdad said he was more afraid of the Shia militia than the Isis militants when he travels down to the Iraqi capital.
The relationship between Kurdish and Shia forces in the area, meanwhile, is uneasy, even though Iran is the main patron of both parties. Husnawi and a local Kurdish commander speak of friendship, but the two men communicate mainly in sign language.
The day after the Guardian visited Salam village, fighting broke out between the two groups, leading to the death of one Shia militiaman. The Khorasani Brigade temporarily took six peshmarga hostage in revenge.
Ironically, the rise of Isis has led the US and Iran to fight on the same side in Iraq against a common enemy. The White House began its campaign of air strikes against Isis in Syria and Iraq in August. On the ground, Iranian-backed Shia militias and Iranian Revolutionary Guards notched up military successes – for example, freeing the Shia town of Amerli, which Isis besieged for three months. According to Kurdish and Iraqi sources, forces under Iran’s General Suleimani were responsible for breaking the siege.
The Shia militias fought Isis in coordination with the regular Iraqi airforce, sources told the Guardian. According to one senior Iraqi pilot, Iranian pilots fly Iraqi airforce planes regularly. He said the planes taking off from the al-Rashid military base near Baghdad often have one Iraqi Shia and one Iranian pilot. “I have seen it with my own eyes. The Iranians use Sukhoi planes. In some units everyone is Iranian, including the pilot and the mechanics. They use Antonov and Hewi planes to drop barrel bombs on Sunni areas. Some Iranian pilots have been shot down.”
Back in Salam village, several Shia militia fighters said they had previously fought in Syria with Syrian government forces against the country’s rebels. President Bashar al-Assad’s minority Alawite sect is Shia; it is fighting against moderate Syrian opposition as well hardline Isis extremists.
Husnawi explained that he was one of numerous Shia volunteers from Iran, Iraq and Lebanon who had flooded to Damascus to prop up the Assad regime. “My fiancée disagreed with my trip to Syria for jihad. She wanted me to stay in Iraq. I could not stay, so I divorced her before I left,” Husnawi said.
On his second trip, he was wounded near a shrine south of Damascus, he said. He was still recovering from his injury when Isis attacked Mosul in early June. As the battle to break the siege of Amerli loomed, he decided to go to the frontline with his younger brother.
Asked what he would do once the battle was finished, Husnawi said he would return to his civilian life, albeit reluctantly: “To tell you the truth, I don’t want it to be over”.
Shia militia fightback against Isis sees tit-for-tat sectarian massacres of Sunnis | World news | The Guardian
In the Iraqi village of Salam, a Shia Muslim volunteer – Muhammad – cheerfully boasted of killing Islamic State (Isis) fighters. “We slaughtered them! Here let me show you,” he said, grabbing a phone from a friend, before playing a gory video with the headless corpses of Isis militants piled on the bonnet of an American Humvee. Blood dripped from the side of the vehicle; Shia militia cheered in the background.
Near to us, smoke billowed from destroyed houses. All of them belonged to Sunni Muslims. In the neighbouring village of Yangija, someone had shot up the Sunni mosque. Footage uploaded onto YouTube at the time – now deleted – showed two men setting light to the corpse of a bloodied Sunni gunman. Now a framed photo of a Shia imam sat on a table outside, decorated with yellow and green Shia militia flags.
Last June Isis overran large chunks of northern and central Iraq in a spectacular military offensive. After arriving in an area the Sunni fighters typcially burned the homes of Shia families. In Salahaddin province, a major flashpoint, thousands of Shias fled.
Last August, however, militias made up of Shia volunteers like Muhammad and backed by Iran began a fightback. They recaptured villages. They gradually shoved out Isis militants. They also enacted a bloody revenge – carrying out their own sectarian massacres in Sunni areas and torching Sunni property.
The mixed Sunni-Shia communities around Tuz Khormato, south of the Kurdish-controlled city of Kirkuk, have borne the brunt of this brutal offensive. In Salam village – ironically enough it means peace in Arabic – Shia militiamen now roam the streets. They have burned down the homes of Sunni inhabitants, all of whom have now fled.
Muhammad and his Shia militia were manning a checkpoint on a road that goes through two Sunni villages to the frontline towards Tikrit. He said he had come from the capital Baghdad to fight Isis.
Much attention has been focused on Isis’s murderous tactics in territories it controls including the northern city of Mosul – beheadings, summary executions, and edicts on women’s dress. But there has been less reporting on the rise of Shia militia groups following the collapse of the regular Iraqi army in early summer. These groups, with the help of Tehran, have flooded the security vacuum. They have mobilised Shia volunteers and – with the support of Kurdish peshmerga forces – have been retaking towns and villages.
According to Amnesty International, Shia militias have abducted and killed scores of Sunni civilians in recent months, and enjoy total impunity for what are “war crimes”. It says the Iraqi government under prime minister Haider al-Abadi has supported and armed the groups, in effect fuelling a new and dangerous cycle of lawlessness and sectarian mayhem.
Scores of unidentified bodies have been discovered across the country. Many are handcuffed and with gunshot wounds to the head, Amnesty says. These execution-style killings have been carried out in apparent revenge for Isis atrocities.
Militia members now number tens of thousands, Amnesty adds. Typically they wear military uniforms but operate without any official control or legal oversight. “By failing to hold militias accountable for war crimes and other gross human rights abuses the Iraqi authorities have effectively granted them free rein to go on the rampage against Sunnis,” Amnesty’s senior crisis response adviser Donatella Rovera said, in a report last month.
Ordinary Iraqis have been caught in the middle of this escalating Sunni-Shia battle. Abu Ammar, a 33-year-old father of two, said he fled the area and now lives in a small rented house in Kirkuk, under the control of the Kurdish regional government, which has its capital in Irbil. “Shia and Sunnis lived side by side in the village. But when Isis took the village they burned the houses of our Shia neighbours. When the Shia militia forced out the Isis militants, they also torched the houses of Sunnis”.
As the Shia militias grow in power, Iran’s military and religious footprint inside Iraq appears to be getting bigger: one prominent militia is the Khorasani Brigade, which openly swears allegiance to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.
The group intends to establish an Islamic state like the one in Tehran. It uses an emblem on its yellow flag similar to the ones used by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the Hezbollah in Lebanon. A hand firmly holds an AK47, a symbol of resistance.
The brigade’s field commander in the Tuz Khormato area is 30-year-old Juwad al-Husnawi. Husnawi said he had 800 men under his command and had fought alongside Qassem Suleimani – a legendary Iranian general – in both Syria and Iraq. Husnawi recalled an incident when Suleimani personally contacted him in the heat of a recent battle and told him to stand firm until reinforcements turned up.
“The following day he came to the frontline, kissed me on the shoulder and thanked me for holding the line,” Husnawi said. “He is down-to-earth. He will go wherever he is needed. He eats with others and mingles with his fighters. We know him very well and trust him fully.”
Husnawi said he came from a family which had resisted Saddam Hussein. The Baathist regime detained two of his paternal uncles and hanged them in Karbala in 1982 for “anti-government activities”. Husnawi himself is of mixed Iraqi-Iranian parentage and went to school in Iran. His father was active in the opposition against Saddam, which Tehran funded, armed and trained during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
For men like Husnawi, the fight against Isis isn’t just about freeing the land occupied by radical Sunni jihadists. He said the battle was a Manichean struggle between good and evil, that pits Shias, led by Iran, against the enemies of Islam. When asked who these enemies of Islam were, he replied: “America, Israel, Salafis of Saudi Arabia and the Sunni jihadists.” The group’s long-term goal, he said, was to liberate Palestine and to “remove Israel”.
The Shia militia have developed a reputation for brutality. One Kurdish driver who drives an SUV taking passengers from Irbil to Baghdad said he was more afraid of the Shia militia than the Isis militants when he travels down to the Iraqi capital.
The relationship between Kurdish and Shia forces in the area, meanwhile, is uneasy, even though Iran is the main patron of both parties. Husnawi and a local Kurdish commander speak of friendship, but the two men communicate mainly in sign language.
The day after the Guardian visited Salam village, fighting broke out between the two groups, leading to the death of one Shia militiaman. The Khorasani Brigade temporarily took six peshmarga hostage in revenge.
Ironically, the rise of Isis has led the US and Iran to fight on the same side in Iraq against a common enemy. The White House began its campaign of air strikes against Isis in Syria and Iraq in August. On the ground, Iranian-backed Shia militias and Iranian Revolutionary Guards notched up military successes – for example, freeing the Shia town of Amerli, which Isis besieged for three months. According to Kurdish and Iraqi sources, forces under Iran’s General Suleimani were responsible for breaking the siege.
The Shia militias fought Isis in coordination with the regular Iraqi airforce, sources told the Guardian. According to one senior Iraqi pilot, Iranian pilots fly Iraqi airforce planes regularly. He said the planes taking off from the al-Rashid military base near Baghdad often have one Iraqi Shia and one Iranian pilot. “I have seen it with my own eyes. The Iranians use Sukhoi planes. In some units everyone is Iranian, including the pilot and the mechanics. They use Antonov and Hewi planes to drop barrel bombs on Sunni areas. Some Iranian pilots have been shot down.”
Back in Salam village, several Shia militia fighters said they had previously fought in Syria with Syrian government forces against the country’s rebels. President Bashar al-Assad’s minority Alawite sect is Shia; it is fighting against moderate Syrian opposition as well hardline Isis extremists.
Husnawi explained that he was one of numerous Shia volunteers from Iran, Iraq and Lebanon who had flooded to Damascus to prop up the Assad regime. “My fiancée disagreed with my trip to Syria for jihad. She wanted me to stay in Iraq. I could not stay, so I divorced her before I left,” Husnawi said.
On his second trip, he was wounded near a shrine south of Damascus, he said. He was still recovering from his injury when Isis attacked Mosul in early June. As the battle to break the siege of Amerli loomed, he decided to go to the frontline with his younger brother.
Asked what he would do once the battle was finished, Husnawi said he would return to his civilian life, albeit reluctantly: “To tell you the truth, I don’t want it to be over”.
Shia militia fightback against Isis sees tit-for-tat sectarian massacres of Sunnis | World news | The Guardian
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Recent Suicide Attacks, number of Turks on the rise.
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Another Kurd Becomes Iraqi Army General
BasNews, Baghdad
The Iraqi Army’s Chief of Staff General Babakir Zebari has left his post and another Kurdish commander will replace him.
On Wednesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, sacked 26 Iraqi military commanders and forced 10 more in to retirement, and one of the military commanders that have been removed from his post is Zebari and another Kurdish military commander named Khorsheed Doski replaces him.
Furthermore, Abadi has brought 18 new military commanders in Iraqi army leadership.
However, a source close to Zebari has told BasNews that Zebari has asked to be relief him from the post the he has occupied for the last 11 years.
“Zebari has asked Kurdistan region president Massoud Barzani to relief him from the post and choose another Kurd to replace him,” the source who whished to remain anonymous told BasNews.
In Addition, Kurdish Member of Iraqi Parliament, Shakhawan Abdullah, told BasNews that Iraqi PM Abadi doesn’t have the authorities to remove those army generals and he only can recommend a list and then presented to the Parliament and they have the authorities to change the army generals.
“There have been agreement between Baghdad and Kurdistan region to change General Zebari and replace him with another Kurdish military general Khorsheed Doski,” added Abdullah.
General Zebari has been the General commander of Iraqi army since the fall of Iraqi former regime in 2003.
BasNews, Baghdad
The Iraqi Army’s Chief of Staff General Babakir Zebari has left his post and another Kurdish commander will replace him.
On Wednesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, sacked 26 Iraqi military commanders and forced 10 more in to retirement, and one of the military commanders that have been removed from his post is Zebari and another Kurdish military commander named Khorsheed Doski replaces him.
Furthermore, Abadi has brought 18 new military commanders in Iraqi army leadership.
However, a source close to Zebari has told BasNews that Zebari has asked to be relief him from the post the he has occupied for the last 11 years.
“Zebari has asked Kurdistan region president Massoud Barzani to relief him from the post and choose another Kurd to replace him,” the source who whished to remain anonymous told BasNews.
In Addition, Kurdish Member of Iraqi Parliament, Shakhawan Abdullah, told BasNews that Iraqi PM Abadi doesn’t have the authorities to remove those army generals and he only can recommend a list and then presented to the Parliament and they have the authorities to change the army generals.
“There have been agreement between Baghdad and Kurdistan region to change General Zebari and replace him with another Kurdish military general Khorsheed Doski,” added Abdullah.
General Zebari has been the General commander of Iraqi army since the fall of Iraqi former regime in 2003.
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Two Special Battalions to be created in Hewlêr to Free Mosul
05.11.2014
Shawn Barznji
Two special Iraqi army battalions from Mosul residents will be created and trained in Hewlêr in order to get them ready for operation to free Mosul fromIslamic State (IS) militants.
“We have held meeting with some members of Nineveh province council in order to complete the mechanism of organizing those battalions which consists of Mosul youths so that they would be ready in the future, to participate in liberating Mosul,” said Shakhawan Abdullah, Kurdish Iraqi Member of Parliament from the committee of Security and Defense in Baghdad.
Abdullah pointed out that each battalion will be consist of 3,000 – 5,000 soldiers.
He revealed that Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) would determine an area close to Hewlêr in order to make a military base for them and train them.
“The force will be trained once again and Baghdad will send them weapons in order to be ready to attack Mosul. It has also been decided to open a military operational desk for gathering intelligence information,” added Abdullah.
Since the beginning of June, IS insurgents took control of Mosul and many other Sunni populated areas in Nineveh province.
Abdullah also mentioned that part of the force’s cost, including food, needs and accommodations would be spent on the budget of Nineveh province.
Iraqi government to provide 700 light weapons for the force as the first step and then later heavy weapons will be provided for the force and now they are waiting for the approval of Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider Abadi.
“IQD 20 million has been provided for transferring weapons for the special force that the budget is on the Security and Defense Committee of Iraqi parliament,” Abdullah said.
He said that so far 4,500 people have registered to join the force as volunteers as well as the 14,000 former Mosul police officers will be members in the special force.
Abdullah also noted that the new battalions have no links with Sunni Mosul militia tribes.
The force will only be made up of those Mosul people who were policemen, officer or soldiers that fled to Kurdistan Region when IS took over Mosul in June.
According to the plan, after the force is trained and ready, they will be organized to participate in operation to free Mosul and they have coordination with Peshmerga forces.
http://basnews.com/en/News/Details/Two-Special-Battalions-to-be-created-in-Erbil-to-Free-Mosul/41239
05.11.2014
Shawn Barznji
Two special Iraqi army battalions from Mosul residents will be created and trained in Hewlêr in order to get them ready for operation to free Mosul fromIslamic State (IS) militants.
“We have held meeting with some members of Nineveh province council in order to complete the mechanism of organizing those battalions which consists of Mosul youths so that they would be ready in the future, to participate in liberating Mosul,” said Shakhawan Abdullah, Kurdish Iraqi Member of Parliament from the committee of Security and Defense in Baghdad.
Abdullah pointed out that each battalion will be consist of 3,000 – 5,000 soldiers.
He revealed that Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) would determine an area close to Hewlêr in order to make a military base for them and train them.
“The force will be trained once again and Baghdad will send them weapons in order to be ready to attack Mosul. It has also been decided to open a military operational desk for gathering intelligence information,” added Abdullah.
Since the beginning of June, IS insurgents took control of Mosul and many other Sunni populated areas in Nineveh province.
Abdullah also mentioned that part of the force’s cost, including food, needs and accommodations would be spent on the budget of Nineveh province.
Iraqi government to provide 700 light weapons for the force as the first step and then later heavy weapons will be provided for the force and now they are waiting for the approval of Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider Abadi.
“IQD 20 million has been provided for transferring weapons for the special force that the budget is on the Security and Defense Committee of Iraqi parliament,” Abdullah said.
He said that so far 4,500 people have registered to join the force as volunteers as well as the 14,000 former Mosul police officers will be members in the special force.
Abdullah also noted that the new battalions have no links with Sunni Mosul militia tribes.
The force will only be made up of those Mosul people who were policemen, officer or soldiers that fled to Kurdistan Region when IS took over Mosul in June.
According to the plan, after the force is trained and ready, they will be organized to participate in operation to free Mosul and they have coordination with Peshmerga forces.
http://basnews.com/en/News/Details/Two-Special-Battalions-to-be-created-in-Erbil-to-Free-Mosul/41239
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The Hidden Hand of ISIS and Its Impact on Palestinian Escalation
Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi
13 Nov 2014
In recent months the State of Israel has been facing what military jargon terms “popular terrorist activity,” characterized by violent disturbances in the al-Aqsa Mosque compound; Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem; the West Bank and Arab towns within Israel; attempts to lynch Jews entering Arab towns; attacks on vehicles with stones and fire bombs and of late – a wave of vehicular murders and fatal stabbing attacks.
This recent outbreak of Palestinian violence resembling an intifada (popular uprising), i.e. wide-spread acts of violence coupled with terrorist attacks (including within Israel’s sovereign territory), has taken place against the backdrop of Hamas’ recurring attempts to ignite an intifada in the West Bank and topple the Palestinian Authority, as well as unrelenting incitement on the part of the Palestinian Authority and its full support of “popular terrorism.” The violence has the complete backing of the Fatah movement whose military wing officially returned in July to “armed struggle,” i.e. perpetration of terrorist attacks with firearms. Palestinian leadership also foments violence in response to Jewish activists’ demand to realize the right of Jews to pray on the Temple Mount.
Ominously, there is also a “hidden hand” at work directly impacting events throughout the Middle East and the Palestinian arena.
On July 29 this year, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced the establishment of the Islamic caliphate in territories captured by the Islamic State (known as IS, ISIS, and ISIL). In contrast to similar announcements in the past (by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq and the Islamic emirate in Afghanistan), the impact of the Islamic caliphate in Iraq and Syria has worldwide implications owing to the process of Islamization taking root in the Middle East, in Islamic states, and within Muslim societies around the globe.
The caliphate is not only a political entity-in-creation (an authority providing public services, education, food supplies, and enforcement of law and order via a morality police), but also the embodiment of the dream to resurrect the glory days of Islam. To many adherents it is the realization of the prophecy of Muhammad regarding the Islamic state that will enforce Islamic rule over the entire world.
The large Islamic organizations, among them the Muslim Brotherhood and Hizb al-Tahrir, although sharing the vision of a caliphate, have not recognized the caliphate regime, as this entails full submission and obedience to the Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The Caliphate’s Worldwide Strategy
Baghdadi’s strategy is to circumvent traditional and established Islamic organizations to reach the hearts of the Muslim public pining to witness the resurrection of Islam and rally jihadi forces to his side together with the thousands of volunteers rushing to his caliphate from around the world.
The list of those swearing allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s caliphate is extensive and comprises local Islamic organizations from Syria and Iraq; senior leaders of the Pakistani Taliban; al-Qaida’s affiliate Khorasan group; al-Qaida in the Indian subcontinent; Mujahedeen in Yemen, Libya, Algeria and Saudi Arabia, and Ansar Beit al-Makdas, active in Egypt’s Sinai that has close links to the Gaza Strip under Hamas rule.
The caliphate serves as inspiration to the Palestinian public, as witnessed by young Israeli Arabs (who identify as Palestinians) and Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip travelling to Syria and Iraq to participate in the jihad (holy war) against the infidels.
The Islamic awakening message, coupled with Islamic power evidenced in achievements on the jihadi front and defiance towards the West, all exert a strong pull on the Palestinian public, which is traditionally attracted to any force declaring a pretense to liberate Palestine (Iraq under Saddam Hussein, Iran and its proxy Hizbullah).
The organizational basis of the caliphate in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is still limited, yet the ideological infrastructure has deep roots within Palestinian society, as Hamas (the Palestinian offshoot of the global Muslim Brotherhood movement) and Hizb al-Tahrir (also a global network organization) share the vision of the Islamic state, including the establishment of a caliphate and implementation of strict sharia law.
In the new Middle East, increasingly Islamic in character, the winds of jihad are sweeping the masses, and would appear to be the main driving force behind the recent wave of Palestinian violence, not born of political or economic despair, but rather hopeful of cracking Israeli confidence and realizing the dream of the liberation of Palestine from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River with Jerusalem as capital city of the caliphate. These are also the principles expressed by leaders of the Islamic movement within the state of Israel, who identify with the Muslim Brotherhood.
The more the Islamic caliphate continues to boost its rule in Iraq and Syria and is certain to destabilize Jordan, the greater the chances are of the collapse of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and the expansion of Palestinian violence towards Israel in its various names – popular intifada, armed intifada or terrorist assault.
- See more at: The Hidden Hand of ISIS and Its Impact on Palestinian Escalation
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Reported for nonsense and off topic post. Israel confiscates another 3,000 acres of Palestinian land. Announces over 2,600 settlements beyond green line in Eastern Jerusalem. Violate the peace treaty with Jordan regarding mosques which Israeli's refer to as 'Temple Mounts'. They escort settlers who ransack the mosque and incite much violence there in violation of treaty. Not to mention the settlements elsewhere that were announced or the crack down on demonstrators over the past months. Let alone the 50 year ongoing state sponsored violent occupation of Palestinian land.
And this Zio-Fascist Solomon and his likes attempt attributing it some ISIS sympathy.
Reported for nonsense and off topic post. Israel confiscates another 3,000 acres of Palestinian land. Announces over 2,600 settlements beyond green line in Eastern Jerusalem. Violate the peace treaty with Jordan regarding mosques which Israeli's refer to as 'Temple Mounts'. They escort settlers who ransack the mosque and incite much violence there in violation of treaty. Not to mention the settlements elsewhere that were announced or the crack down on demonstrators over the past months. Let alone the 50 year ongoing state sponsored violent occupation of Palestinian land.
And this Zio-Fascist Solomon and his likes attempt attributing it some ISIS sympathy.
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Iraq Christians guard village taken from IS group
By BRAM JANSSEN 5 hours ago
BAKUFA, Iraq (AP) — The flag of an Iraqi Christian minority party is hoisted high over the village of Bakufa in northern Iraq, less than a month after Islamic State militants were pushed out and the extremists' black banner was taken down.
The predominantly Christian Assyrian hamlet of 95 houses that once had about 500 people, located some 390 kilometers (243 miles) north of Baghdad, was overrun by the Islamic State group during its shocking blitz this summer, along with 22 other villages nearby.
In a counter-offensive, the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters swept in from the north, battling the Islamic State group house-to-house. The fighting forced the villagers to flee to Kurdish towns and cities elsewhere in northern Iraq.
Once Bakufa was retaken, the Kurdish fighters helped set up the village militia, made up of about 70 volunteers and known as Dwekh Nawsha, or "self-sacrifice" in Assyrian.
The men of Dwekh Nawsha now patrol Bakufa round-the-clock, in the hope that the village stays free long enough so their families can return.
A member of the Dwekh Nawasha stood guard on a building rooftop, next to the flag of the Assyrian Patriotic Party, during a recent visit by The Associated Press.
A Dwekh Naswha militia member prepares his weapon in front of a grave inside a 200-year-old monaster …
"We found ourselves helpless," said Caesar Jacob, a deputy of to the Christian militia's commander. The 44-year-old electrician said the militiamen worked "side-by-side" with the peshmerga fighters but then gradually took over responsibility for their village.
"We must depend on ourselves to defend our land for now and the future," Jacob told the AP.
The militia commander, Albert Kisso, 47, said Christian territories in what is Iraq's Nineveh province needed their own protection and the forming of the militia was the logical outcome.
The Assyrians, an indigenous Christian group in Iraq descendant from the ancient Mesopotamians, are a Semitic people who speak an eastern Aramaic dialect. Along with the Chaldeans, they make up the largest Christian group in Iraq.
Bakufa is also the site of the 200-year old St. Gorgiz Monastery, which Kisso describes as a tribute to the "elegance of the Mesopotamian civilization" of their ancestors.
Dwekh Nawsha militia members stand guard in the Christian village of Bakufa, 30 kilometers (18.6 mil …
"It is the priority of Dwekh Nawsha to protect the sons of this region, as well as the region itself — including its monasteries, churches, artifacts," said Kisso, a longtime member of the Assyrian Patriotic Party.
In their onslaught, the Islamic State group also targeted indigenous religious minorities across the country's north, including Christians and followers of the ancient Yazidi faith, forcing tens of thousands from their homes. The area's 120,000 Christians are mostly still in exile.
The Kurdish peshmerga fighters are proud of what they did for Bakufa.
"We came here ... to protect our Christian brothers and their homes," said Abdul Rahman Kawriny, the local peshmerga brigade commander. "There is constant cooperation and assistance. We are always together."
The Dwekh Nawsha militiamen spend the days patrolling the narrow village streets in bullet-proof vests, their insignia prominently displayed on their fatigues.
Relying on donations from Christian charities abroad and wealthier members of the Iraqi Assyrian community, the Christian fighters must supply their own weapons.
Those who do not own a weapon cannot join and many said that Dwekh Nawsha would have 250 men if only they had the needed firepower.
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Associated Press writer Vivian Salama in Baghdad contributed to this report.
By BRAM JANSSEN 5 hours ago
BAKUFA, Iraq (AP) — The flag of an Iraqi Christian minority party is hoisted high over the village of Bakufa in northern Iraq, less than a month after Islamic State militants were pushed out and the extremists' black banner was taken down.
The predominantly Christian Assyrian hamlet of 95 houses that once had about 500 people, located some 390 kilometers (243 miles) north of Baghdad, was overrun by the Islamic State group during its shocking blitz this summer, along with 22 other villages nearby.
In a counter-offensive, the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters swept in from the north, battling the Islamic State group house-to-house. The fighting forced the villagers to flee to Kurdish towns and cities elsewhere in northern Iraq.
Once Bakufa was retaken, the Kurdish fighters helped set up the village militia, made up of about 70 volunteers and known as Dwekh Nawsha, or "self-sacrifice" in Assyrian.
The men of Dwekh Nawsha now patrol Bakufa round-the-clock, in the hope that the village stays free long enough so their families can return.
A member of the Dwekh Nawasha stood guard on a building rooftop, next to the flag of the Assyrian Patriotic Party, during a recent visit by The Associated Press.
A Dwekh Naswha militia member prepares his weapon in front of a grave inside a 200-year-old monaster …
"We found ourselves helpless," said Caesar Jacob, a deputy of to the Christian militia's commander. The 44-year-old electrician said the militiamen worked "side-by-side" with the peshmerga fighters but then gradually took over responsibility for their village.
"We must depend on ourselves to defend our land for now and the future," Jacob told the AP.
The militia commander, Albert Kisso, 47, said Christian territories in what is Iraq's Nineveh province needed their own protection and the forming of the militia was the logical outcome.
The Assyrians, an indigenous Christian group in Iraq descendant from the ancient Mesopotamians, are a Semitic people who speak an eastern Aramaic dialect. Along with the Chaldeans, they make up the largest Christian group in Iraq.
Bakufa is also the site of the 200-year old St. Gorgiz Monastery, which Kisso describes as a tribute to the "elegance of the Mesopotamian civilization" of their ancestors.
Dwekh Nawsha militia members stand guard in the Christian village of Bakufa, 30 kilometers (18.6 mil …
"It is the priority of Dwekh Nawsha to protect the sons of this region, as well as the region itself — including its monasteries, churches, artifacts," said Kisso, a longtime member of the Assyrian Patriotic Party.
In their onslaught, the Islamic State group also targeted indigenous religious minorities across the country's north, including Christians and followers of the ancient Yazidi faith, forcing tens of thousands from their homes. The area's 120,000 Christians are mostly still in exile.
The Kurdish peshmerga fighters are proud of what they did for Bakufa.
"We came here ... to protect our Christian brothers and their homes," said Abdul Rahman Kawriny, the local peshmerga brigade commander. "There is constant cooperation and assistance. We are always together."
The Dwekh Nawsha militiamen spend the days patrolling the narrow village streets in bullet-proof vests, their insignia prominently displayed on their fatigues.
Relying on donations from Christian charities abroad and wealthier members of the Iraqi Assyrian community, the Christian fighters must supply their own weapons.
Those who do not own a weapon cannot join and many said that Dwekh Nawsha would have 250 men if only they had the needed firepower.
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Associated Press writer Vivian Salama in Baghdad contributed to this report.
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lol, one thing is sure, he wasn't afraid of fighting 2 of the most evil states of this century, OBL won the war against " terror ", the US LOST miserably
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You seem the only one to see it that way...
lol, one thing is sure, he wasn't afraid of fighting 2 of the most evil states of this century, OBL won the war against " terror ", the US LOST miserably
1...He was an american stooge and worked to further the servility of the Muslim states
2- The only fight he did, if you can call that a fight, is the assassination of countless Muslims, and muslims only
3- The US have not lost a thing..They gain Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen, and are firming up their holds on Syria and Iraq....For all their gain, you have to thank your hero.
I am sure he died with fear of death in his eye, just like it was reported by the shooter..And that is good for all the ones that suffered from that medieval wahabi beast.
His death send also a message to those muslim of service of the GCC's loud and clear from the muzzle of the M4, that they all meet an identical fate when their services are no longer needed. White shark in the Indian ocean need fresh rotten meat.
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