Iraqi military officials claimed to have retaken a small town on the outskirts of Fallujah, one of several that has fallen to al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) in recent days. The victory is a small one, however, and the momentum is still swinging AQI’s way.
Bombings targeted troops, AQI fighters kidnapped truck drivers on the outskirts of Baghdad, and scores of people were killed. AQI is on the move and seizing more territory in Anbar, threatening a push into Baghdad.
Police abandoned two major posts in Anbar, along the highway to Baghdad, saying that the AQI fighters have heavy arms and that requests for support were never answered.
AQI seems to be having their way with the Iraqi military at this point, though it is losing some parts of Fallujah to Sunni tribal leaders. That isn’t necessarily good news for the Maliki government either, however, as the locals in Fallujah were in open rebellion before AQI arrived and still have deep objections to the central government’s policies.
Heavy arms? Al Queda or the revolutionary guard emerging from hideout?
More likely heavy arms supplied by US, Saudi Arabia and others to the FSA ("Good" al-Qaeda) in Syria to fight Assad, recently captured by ISIS ("Bad" al-Qaeda) from FSA warehouses during rebel (Good and Bad al-Qaeda) infighting. (See Jason Ditz on "western-spies-reaching-out…" for more on good and bad al-Qaeda)
We can be certain that Obama bin Laden, emperor of the rapidly expanding Al CIAduh, is directing all of them, good and bad, from somewhere though. If that was really him taken out in Abbotcostelloabad a while back, then he could be providing at least spiritual guidance from Tora Bora, Riyadh, Langley, or anywhere for that matter. And we should keep an eye peeled for Ali Baba and his forty thieves too! Don't forget they also had a hideout.
I read that Iraq had something like 25 million people when the US started attacking them after Saddam seized Kuwait in '91. With all the thousands of deaths from the 1st Gulf War, plus hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by the punitive sanctions in the '90's, then the US's devastating immoral war by Bush II & company, plus the millions of refugees who have fled, and now the sickening daily sectarian violence, how many Iraqi's are left in that US created hellhole? How can this be anything other than genocide?