Iraqi authorities said Sunday that security forces were able to recapture some 349 inmates who had been freed by a coordinated Al-Qaeda attack last week, as violence continued to grip the country.
An Al-Qaeda statement last week said that 120 government forces had been killed. Iraqi authorities at the time said 28 security personnel had been killed. On Sunday, Al-Shimarry said that more than 100 “militants” and inmates had been killed.
Al-Shimmary’s statements came as a suicide car bomb Sunday killed at least 12 people, eight of whom were Kurdish security forces, in Tuz Khormato, 200 kilometres north of Baghdad.
Defense consultant Moeen Raoof said “The Iraqi government isn’t controlling anything… [It] hasn’t been spending its oil funds on security… the toppling of Saddam Hussein was a fatal, fatal mistake,” one that will be repeated in Afghanistan, after complete US withdrawal, he believes. Nearly 600 people have been killed in militant attacks across Iraq so far this month, according to the monitoring group Iraq Body Count.
Sara Flounders, head of the International Action Center said “… We do know there was a prison break. But before we rush to label everyone Al-Qaeda, let’s be aware that Abu Ghraib itself as a prison was notorious for US torture techniques… it was turned back over to the Iraqi government and we have no idea if any conditions improved”
Remembering the 2003, Operation Iraqi Freedom by the United States, when troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland, hurled to invade Iraq and deposed the Ba’athist regime of Saddam Hussein. At that time U.S. President G W Bush and British PM Tony Blair told the world that the coalition’s mission was “to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein’s support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people”. After 10 years, we find the Iraqi people more terrorised in their day to day lives, with no signs of possible civil life, and freedom only to be killed and tortured by contesting terror groups that have taken hold of the country under the patronage of resourceful bounty-hunters from around the world.
The title of this article appears to blame America and democracy for a crime committed by radical terrorists…the prison attacks were planned and executed by the same al qaeda terrorists that the USA has been fighting for over a decade..to try to equate this terrorist action with American led quest for democracy is a typical propaganda device used by haters of freedom and democracy…the editors should know that your readers are not all so uneducated as to be fooled by this cheap trick…
Your cherished freedom and democracy are cloaked hypocricy, imprisonment without charges and spying on other nations and innocent civilians. The acts of cruelty committed by American forces, remember Faluja and Abu Gharaib, would be a case for crimes against humanity if there was a just world. Let me point out to you that Sadam probably hated AL Qaueda as much or more than America. So there was no AQ in Iraq until Americans destroyed all Iraqi infrastructure, institutions, army and religious tolerance and harmony. You’re absolutely right readers are not uneducated that they may be duped into believing that some sort of a just war was fought in Iraq, under false pretenses of WMD. Remember that liar “uncle Tom” at the UN? Remember also what that a great man Hans Blixt said for months prior to the attack on Iraq. The “noble” Americans discredit him with lies and destroyed his reputation. In the aftermath who would you believe now Hans Blixt or that liar Colon Powel? Eddied, who pays you to comment on these sites?
@zak…no one pays me..I am comfortably retired and don’t need any payment to follow the problems in Pakistan caused by radicals who have distorted the media by blaming the west for all of the problems in the Middle East…your denial of responsibility for the chaos caused by extremist Muslims and the carnage they are causing by targeting innocent civilians in Mosques and marketplaces are enough motivation for me to speak out against these atrocities…and to speak out against those who would purposely twist the truth into blaming other outsiders for the problems being caused by internal unstable radicals who give Islam a bad name…
Eddied,
Who is the greater evil, the one who beguiles the already confused to pull the trigger or the one actually pulling the trigger.
Offcourse as Muslims these pathetic butchers that call them selves TTP and FSA and their equivalent in Libya should be vanquished.
Eddied,
At the same token there are many Muslims who have a justified freedom struggle from displacement, genocide, denial of basic human rights at the hands of tyrannical puppets or occupied by foreign powers.
The world ignores these peoples, the UN stays silent and internet self styled voices of reason and justice are oblivious to them as if their cries are non existent.
Surely you can’t beleive you have nble intentions by putting a pseudo intellectual spin on your argument.
The acid test for any of these pseudo intelelctuals is a simple question:
Do you Feel Palestinians have been dispalced and massacred and driven from their ancestoral homes and lands and the violence continues…
Do you feel Kashmiris have been displaced and massacred and driven from their ancestoral homes and lands and the violence continues…
Assad is an angel comapred to the FSA? Syria was magical and beautiful, it’s history inspiring and it’s ruins and architecture jaw dropping. Who has burnt Syria!!
The answers will be predicatable and no one truly shall speak for the truth and provide a way out of genocide and displacement of Palestinians, Kashmiris and Syrians but will be quick to condemn the opressed and the victim.
That is what is expected from people like Eddied who paint a gloom picture of Muslims as if theya r eincapable of governance yet they have held the longest seat of civilisation, modern progression, great societies in comparison to other empires and it’s last empire / civilisation was disbanded bny the same people who pull the strings to divide and destroy the Muslim lands only a mere 80 + years ago.
The FSA, the Butchers of Libya are akin to the butchers who Lawrence of Arabia armed against the legitimate superior governance of yesterday that existed in the Muslim lands.
Look how those butchers and marauders were painted in the Western written history books.
But good on the West for fooling the Muslims all the time..
The saying, “you can fool the people some of the time and not all the time” does not apply tot he stupid Muslims of Arab and Greater Middle East referring to Central Asia inc. Pakistan.
This dim witted bafoons are so pathetic and can not see history repeating itself so why not West take the advantage.
Until Muslims actually behave LIKE Muslims, honourable, courageous top-down change will not come any day soon and continue to be the fools of the Great Games played by the West using Islam as the scape good for economic regeneration.
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>>Until Muslims actually behave LIKE Muslims, honourable, courageous top-down change will not come any day soon and continue to be the fools of the Great Games played by the West using Islam as the SCAPE GOAT for economic regeneration.<<<<<