Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) retains its control over the Iraqi city of Fallujah after a solid weekend of military operations, and with threats of even bigger offensives to come, locals who are able to are fleeing the city.
AQI took over Fallujah and part of Ramadi last week, and has been clashing with both national security forces and local tribesmen ever since. So far, there is no sign of them giving up either territory.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has vowed that the military will forcibly end “disunity” in Fallujah, but the troops have so far been unable to fight them off, and officials say a “major attack” is coming soon.
The situation began two weeks ago with the arrest of a Sunni MP. Protests ensued, and Maliki ordered a bloody crackdown on them, sparking mass resignations of MPs. As Maliki added more troops, riots broke out, and AQI used the chaos as a chance to infiltrate the cities, sacking police stations and setting up their own checkpoints.
Having assumed he could impose a military solution to political unrest, Maliki has ended up setting up a military problem far deeper than he’d expected, and one his military might not be up to.
Few days ago the Saudis ambassador in London announced that Saudi Arabia will do it alone, indeed they are doing it alone with their, once again, trained barbarians. Al-Quead losing grounds in Syria, they either need to run for Europe via Turkey or Lebanon or into Iraq which they have done so for sometimes, reaching Fallujah starting a new fight terrorizing the Iraqi people, as they have done for last 12 or so years. However, the good news is that, by each and every defeats, the Wahhabis and Saudis prince lose millions of dollars per day, if its continues for another two years or so that would be the end of the kingdoms, I just wonder if the Swedish king which two years ago was praising the Saudis kingdoms for there effort paving the way for Swedish fighter jets to bomb the Libyan people and later praising the Syrian war would take in the poor Saudis prince letting them stay at his 800 room mention in Stockholm.