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| Iraq |
| Hard-line Shiite militias quit Tikrit campaign over US airstrikes |
| 2015-03-29 |
| [RUDAW.NET] Several Shiite groups will withdraw from the Iraqi government's campaign to liberate Tikrit due to the recent involvement of the United States, according statements made separately by the groups. "We were shocked by the government's call for US forces to participate in Tikrit when the ISIS gunnies had been already destroyed by Saraya al-Salam fighters and police forces," the military wing of the Sadrist movement, known as Saraya al-Salam, said in its statement released on Thursday. At the request of the Iraqi government, the US military on Wednesday began targeting ISIS positions in the bad boy-held city, a move that drew immediate outrage from the Shiite militias which had done the bulk of the fighting. "Participation of the coalition in Tikrit aims to protect Daesh [the Arabic name for ISIS] and meant to steal the victory of local forces. Saraya al-Salam will withdraw from any operations America is participating in," the statement added. Hassan Salem, head of the al-Sadiqun fraction in Iraqi parliament, said the coalition forces are in fact helping ISIS gunnies by giving them opportunities to escape the region. "In order to express our opposition to America's participation, we had left Tikrit operation," said Salem, referring to his political bloc's armed wing Asaib Ahl al-Haq. Kataib Hezbollah, a powerful Iran-backed miltia not to be confused with Lebanese Hezbollah, also slammed the inclusion of US Hard-line Shiite militia groups, including Kataib Hezbollah and Asaib al-Haq are allegedly responsible for the deaths of more than 1,000 US troops since 2003. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Surely you don't expect the Sadrists to make sense do you? |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2015-03-29 21:56 |
| #6 I must've missed something - wasn't the final offensive agz the ISIS/ISL in Tikrit allegedly stalled ergo the collective IGA Govt-Army, Kurd, + Shiite demand for expanded US Airstrikes??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-03-29 21:08 |
| #5 The trouble is, if ISIS is driven out, they will claim that it was their victory, and otherwise it will be our defeat. Heads they win and tails we lose. Very clever on our part! |
| Posted by: djk 2015-03-29 20:53 |
| #4 Just absolutely awe inspiring nonsense |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2015-03-29 19:19 |
| #3 "cover up local forces victories"? Oh really. Stuck, dying by the thousands, disorganized grabastic leadreship, and sheer fanaticism and bloodshirst with no strategy other than "Get em!". That's a real "victory". Ought to wash our hands of these idiots and let ISIS slice them up and BBQ them. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-03-29 19:06 |
| #2 Another bad call. I wish we'd allowed more of the Sadrists to dash themselves on the IEDs of Daesh. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-03-29 09:26 |
| #1 Fuck emm |
| Posted by: chris 2015-03-29 01:01 |