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2020-12-27 Iraq
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Iraq’s prime minister walks tightrope in struggle with militias
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[Jpost] The militias have fired dozens of rockets at facilities where US personnel are located. They have frequently fired Iranian-supplied 107mm rockets at the US embassy in Baghdad.
It wasn’t so long ago that Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, a former activist and intelligence chief, was wearing a jacket that the Hashd al-Shaabi had presented him. Last night he khaki jacket was no where in appearance as he met his security chiefs in Baghdad at night as tensions rose with a militia that is part of the Hashd.
Kadhimi is walking a tightrope. The Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia, part of the Hashd, which is itself part of the security forces, has threatened the Prime Minister, the American forces in Iraq and Iraq’s illusory sovereignty itself. Asaib is run by Qais Khazali, a former US detainee who was held at Camp Cropper, and a former ally of Moqtada Tater al-Sadr
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...hereditary Iraqi holy man and leader of a political movement in Iraq. He had his hereditary rival al-Khoei assassinated shortly after the holy rival's appearance out of exile in 2003. Formerly an Iranian catspaw, lately he's gagged over some of their more outlandish antics, then went back to catspawry...
in 2004 who broke with Sadr and became a Shi’ite militia gang leader. He fought the Americans, linked up with Lebanese Hezbollah, got himself sanctioned by the US and built Asaib into a formidable military force and armed gang. Asaib was part of the 100,000 members of the Hashd who fought ISIS and have opposed the US role in Iraq. The militia leaders like Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Hadi al-Amiri are close to Iran. The US killed Muhandis in January when he met Qasem Soleimani at the airport. The militias have fired dozens of rockets at facilities where US personnel are located. They have frequently fired Iranian-supplied 107mm rockets at the US embassy in Baghdad. The US has threatened to close the embassy and strike at the Iranian-backed militias.
This brought everything to another crisis this week. Kadhimi wants to balance the militias and Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and the US. He says he doesn’t want Iraq to be the scene of a proxy war. He has tried his best. But he too is threatened. He tried to detain members of Kataib Hezbollah in June and the decision was reversed. Yesterday he sat cloistered with his generals and Counter-Terror Chiefs. Meanwhile Asaib was talking to Qassem al-Araji, the National Security Advisor and also with Sadr’s Saraya al-Salam, complaining that Baghdad had detained one of their commanders. They gave Kadhimi 48 hours to release the detainee.
This made it appear that the militias might either strike at the Americans or even the government. This brought whispers that Sadr’s own militia men would protect the government from Khazali. It should be recalled Khazali had visited Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
in 2017 and threatened Israel. He wants to be part of Iran’s corridor of control across the region. Other Iraqi militias prefer a slower paced pressure on the US. They too want to control the region with Iran, but they are more cautious. Because Asaib has roots in criminality, extortion, kidnapping, liquidations and shake-downs, its criminal element is larger. It is not clear if Kadhimi can outsmart these dangerous militias. He has climbed down before. Last night he avoided conflict. Tensions are high on the anniversary of Soleimani’s killing and as Iran awaits US president-elect Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
 ...Candidate for president in 2020. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. ...
coming into office. Iraq is on a tightrope.
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