“They’ll only enter Fallujah over our dead bodies.”
That’s the quote of one of the fighters for a local tribal brigade inside the Iraqi city, which fell to al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) last week, and which is facing an invasion by the Iraqi military.
The Defense Ministry has announced an indefinite delay on the offensive, citing fears of civilian casualties. The bigger problem is the tribal leaders though, who say they are prepared to fight the military if they move against the city.
“If the army attacks Fallujah to fight a handful of al-Qaeda elements, that will have dire consequences,” warned one of the tribal leaders, saying the Maliki government should focus on fighting AQI on the city’s outskirts, and leave their ouster from the city itself to the tribesmen.
It’s not an idle threat. Much of Fallujah’s Anbar Province was in open revolt during the days leading up to AQI’s takeover, and the Sunni Arab locals are clearly as averse to the Maliki government as they are to AQI.
Maliki’s threat of a military offensive has also created a major humanitarian crisis, as over 13,000 families are reported to have left Fallujah and Ramadi, and are dependent on the Red Crescent for aid.
The emery of my enemy is my friend, which in reality Bush regime meant to say. As long as Saudis-Wahhabis jihadist and other form of barbarians helping USG to expend its militarism into Middle East the USG will be very thankful for what Paul Wolfowitz, the father of all American Zionist have created for Israel to feel safe enabling it to steal more of Palestinians land and as much as Saudis dictatorial regime continues to be what they are, a kingdom of falsified believes, a religious dictatorial regime with money to spend.
Well said! I remember Bush 41 called Saddam an 'ALLY' when he used chemical weapons shipped to him from Europe and the USA to attack Iranian troop deployments, (and) Iraqi Kurds in the northern province. Rumsfeld is even seen shaking hands with Saddam after sealing a pipeline agreement. Rumsfeld later backstabbed his (old) buckpal, Saddam with bogus charges of WMDs.
Saddam believed the US still needed him as a buffer against Iran, and disregarded the clap-trap from the Right-wing – even as the bombs began to fall on Iraq.
Wonder from which spider hole Maliki is giving out orders.?
Every politician who voted in favor of the Iraq invasion should be forced to go over there right now and convince Al Qaeda, who had no presence there before the US invasion, to leave.
We don't need these politicians here. They are not important. They can go over there and be incommunicado for a while. It won't effect us.