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IS Top Command Dominated by Ex-Officers in Saddam's Army: A Who's Who

2015-08-09

While attending the Iraqi army's artillery school nearly 20 years ago, Ali Omran remembers one major well. An Islamic hard-liner, he once chided Omran for wearing an Iraqi flag pin into the bathroom because it included the words "God is great."
Werwolves I believe they were called.
"It is forbidden by religion to bring the name of the Almighty into a defiled place like this," Omran recalled being told by Maj. Taha Taher al-Ani.

Omran didn't see al-Ani again until years later, in 2003. The Americans had invaded Iraq and were storming toward Baghdad. Saddam Hussein's fall was imminent. At a sprawling military base north of the capital, al-Ani was directing the loading of weapons, ammunition and ordnance into trucks to spirit away. He took those weapons with him when he joined Tawhid wa'l-Jihad, a forerunner of al-Qaeda's branch in Iraq.

Posted by:trailing wife

#3 I think Paul Bremer sort of drove them into the arms of the insurgency when he issued the edict to exclude Baathist from the government and former Saddam Army officers from the "new" Iraqi Army...when you take away a livelihood and Al Douri is trotting around with $250 million in seed money, you follow the money.

I believe that Paul Bremer personally with his idiot view of the reconstruction did more to foment this pestilence than any decision made before youknowho came into office.

Posted by: Bill Clinton 2015-08-09 21:51

#2 Failure to pursue across borders during the insurgency in Iraq. They come back to bite you. Leave no sanctuary.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-08-09 09:01

#1 Do you see why you could not keep that "government
" now?

Posted by: newc 2015-08-09 01:17

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