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Iraq

Militia vows to continue attacks until all US troops leave Iraq

2023-12-10

[Rudaw] An Iraqi militia official on Saturday vowed to continue drone and rocket attacks on United States interests, defying Baghdad’s efforts to find the perpetrators and reassure its American allies.

"Our jihadist operations against the American occupation will continue until the last of its soldiers are removed from the land of Iraq," Abu Ali al-Askari, an official from Kataib Hezbollah, one of the pro-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...
groups Washington blames for the recent attacks, said in a statement.

"The American evil embassy remains a forward operations base for managing military and security operations, and a den of espionage," he said. "Yesterday’s group of operations is only the beginning of a new rule of engagement, and the coming days will determine the level of response."

A series of rockets targeted the US embassy in Baghdad in the early hours of Friday, causing no casualties. The attack prompted Washington to call on Baghdad to protect diplomatic missions in the country, adding the US reserves the right to defend itself.

The headquarters of the Iraqi National Security Service in Baghdad, Erbil International Airport, and a civilian building near the airport were also hit with drones and rockets on Friday.

The Islamic Resistance® in Iraq, a network of militias, said in a statement on its Telegram channel that it carried out eleven attacks against "American occupation in Iraq and Syria," using dozens of rockets and drones in the assaults on Friday. It did not detail which sites it targeted.

There have been at least 78 attacks on US forces in Iraq and Syria since mid-October, leaving 66 American personnel injured, according to the Pentagon. The Islamic Resistance® in Iraq, which is linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has claimed most of the attacks, which are in retaliation for Washington’s support for Israel in its war on Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudan
Sudan

...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
i in a phone call on Saturday warned US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin against taking any direct response to militia attacks without approval from Baghdad.

Sudani "emphasized the security services' capability to pursue and expose those involved in attacks, cautioning against a direct response without government approval," according to a statement from his office.

The US has responded with drone and ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s. On November 22, US warplanes struck pro-Iran fighters in Jurf al-Nasr (formerly Jurf al-Sakhar) in northern Babil province, killing eight members of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF or Hashd al-Shaabi). Another five PMF fighters were killed in a US dronezap in Kirkuk on December 3.

Kataib Hezbollah

...which keeps insisting it’s not in any way at all connected to the original Lebanese Hezbollah, even though they’ve trained together and they’re both clients of Iran...

and Harakat al-Nujaba, the two groups Washington blames for the attacks, are both designated terrorist organizations by the US.

Around 2,500 American troops in Iraq and 900 in Syria are leading an international coalition through Operation Inherent Resolve that has assisted Kurdish, Iraqi, and local Syrian forces in the fight against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS), which once held swathes of land in Iraq and Syria but was declared territorially defeated in 2019.

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