Kataib Hezbollah, one of the main Shia militias in Iraq, has announced it’s suspending operations against US troops in Iraq and Syria.
“We announce the suspension of military and security operations against the occupation forces,” Kataib Hezbollah said in a statement on Tuesday. The group said it was suspending the operations because it did not want to cause “embarrassment to the Iraqi government.”
The Pentagon said it would ignore the announcement and that it would not change the US response to the drone attack in northeastern Jordan that killed three US troops. The Pentagon has said the attack had the “footprints” of Kataib Hezbollah, but the group has not taken credit.
The US is also blaming Iran for the attack since it arms Kataib Hezbollah and other Iraqi militias, but the Pentagon has admitted it has no evidence Tehran was directly involved.
According to Al Mayadeen, Kataib Hezbollah said Iran was not involved in its operations. “Our brothers in the Axis [of Resistance], especially in Iran, do not know the specifics of our jihadist work, and they have repeatedly declared opposition to our escalation against the US forces in Iraq and Syria,” said the group’s leader, Abu Hussein al-Hamidawi.
Al-Hamidawi said Kataib Hezbollah would continue to work to defend Gaza through other means. US bases in Iraq and Syria have come under attack about 160 times since mid-October, according to the Pentagon. Most attacks have been claimed by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a shadowy umbrella group of Iraqi Shia militias. The US has blamed Kataib Hezbollah for some of the other recent attacks and targeted the group with airstrikes.
Kataib Hezbollah was founded in 2003 following the US invasion of Iraq and is part of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), a coalition of Iraqi militias that was formed in 2014 to fight ISIS. The US and the PMF were on the same side during major battles against ISIS, and the PMF is still part of the Baghdad government’s security forces.
Recent US airstrikes against the PMF have enraged Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, who is calling for an end to the presence of the US-led coalition in Iraq. The US and Iraq have opened negotiations that could potentially lead to a US withdrawal, although, for now, the US appears determined to stay.
What does Iraq, Syria and Lebonon have in common? Their governments are so weak that they don’t even run their own country.
Anyway, Kataib Hezbollah is worried that they will get blamed for the tower 22 attack. And they know that that will not be good for them.
“What does Iraq, Syria and Lebonon have in common?”
They’ve all been invaded and rat fucked by the USA at some point.
The Kremlin Fascist talking.
I love how instead of factually disputing anything your singular response is along the lines of the above. When your only answer to criticism of American morality is “MA RUSSIA!!!!!” it is a sign of a propagandized mind. I bet you are still proud of your murderous military service. Are you? Proud of all the innocents you helped to kill?
So was Germany, Italy and Japan. They all recovered.
“They all recovered.”
Yes after they were rebuilt. Germany, Italy, and Japan also all surrendered after being defeated in a war. Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon were the victims of illegal attacks by the USA and were neither pacified nor rebuilt.
Yes they were rebuilt and not torn apart by inside fighting. The infighting in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon is reason why they don’t have a strong government and who knows who is in charge of what. Thus they have groups of thugs running around causing all kind of problems.
You seem to be a very confused individual. We have two groups of countries. The ones from WWII were engaged in a total war effort which they all lost (i.e. were pacified) and were then occupied and rebuilt by the USA. The second group from more recent history in the Middle East were all victims of illegal occupations by the USA which in the case of Iraq and Syria had most of their infrastructure destroyed with high levels of internal displacement which both contributed to a disruption in civil society. So yeah creating power vacuums tends to breed instability. The fact that you want to compare WWII to the GWOT tells me that you don’t know what the fuck you are talking about.
And the fact you need the F word to express your self tells me your lack education. In any case, those countries were totally destroyed by the US and were able to put themselves back together because they avoiding infighting. Like many Arab countries they only thing they enjoy more than killings Americans is killing their own.
Your grasp of history and reality is tenuous. Just to be clear you are saying that these two groups of countries we are talking about are good analogs for each other?
Once again because you seem to be ignorant of history. Europe was rebuilt by the USA after it was pacified. Iraq and Syria were destroyed by American aggression, not pacified, and then not rebuilt.
If you were aware of the pertinent history you would know that most of the money spent in Iraq was lost to corruption and not much was actually accomplished. But contractor scum and IC types sure got rich. You’re commenting on the website that documented this history you ignorant fuck.
https://original.antiwar.com/obrien/2010/09/08/us-leaving-iraq-in-worse-shape-than-saddam/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/much-of-60b-from-us-to-rebuild-iraq-wasted-special-auditors-final-report-to-congress-shows/
So you are wrong. Just like all the other instances of you spewing racist zionist neocon shit all over the comments section.
What is so myopic about U.S. foreign policy makers is that, they haven’t even considered, maybe, just maybe, the ordinary population in that region is so sick and tired of U.S. involvement in that region that they may as well put up their own resistance independent of what Iran has to say.
The Pentagon said it would ignore the announcement
From the jaws of victory…
well, yes, but their job is not winning, as we all know …
Announcements mean nothing but actions everything.
Remember when Russia announced it was not going to invade Ukraine, that it was all a West fabricated lie?
From the Jaws of victory!!
That doesn’t mean suspension against Israel…! Kataib-H is going on defense meaning reactive versus proactive status even against US…!
The US had recently agreed to talks to get out of Iraq, so who “blinked” first? The US attacked this group for stuff they didn’t do a year ago, this group hit back a few times, the US agreed to talks. We blinked.
They were already getting what they wanted, attacking again just AFTER the US made concessions and agreed to talks would have been stupid.
They put out this statement because they don’t want anyone thinking they were the ones who gave the US another excuse to stay. Now of course after denying taking part in this attack and promising not to attack the US troops in the future, they will NOT be blamed and instead will come off as victims, if the US attacks them.
This announcement was used to set them up as victims, rather than skapegoats. What else can the skapegoat do, other than try to change public opinion?
They are saying loud and clear, We didn’t attack you this time and we won’t attack you again but don’t bomb us or all bets are off.
That is clever , lets see if Biden bombs them regardless.
Clever yes. Too late yes.