[Centraal] Irak en IS #120

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 16:43 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Racist? We mogen ( ik dan en mijn ouders ) Koerden gewoon hoor Dat paar andere zeer nationalistische Assyriërs het doen betekend niet dat elke het doet

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A senior Iraqi official says the so-called US-led coalition against the ISIL Takfiri group is not doing enough in the face of militants, calling for increased firepower to combat the terrorists.

The coalition "should be more serious, more effective," the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq told the Associated Press on Monday.

"I don't think that the intervention of this coalition is serious enough” in comparison with ISIL’s strength, he added.

Mutlaq also noted that the US military campaign does not match the scale of the ISIL threat.

"We would welcome any help which does not contradict the independence of the country, and any help which unites the society and [does] not divide the society in Iraq," the Iraqi official said.
He further emphasized that Iraq needs more advanced weapons than what the ISIL militant group currently possesses.

The ISIL terrorists control some parts of Iraq and Syria. They are engaged in crimes against humanity in the areas under their control. They have terrorized and killed people of all communities, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, and Christians.

Since last August, the US and some of its allies have been conducting airstrikes against what they say are ISIL positions in Iraq. Some members of the US-led coalition also started bombarding ‘ISIL targets’ inside Syria in September.

However, the raids have so far failed to dislodge the Takfiri group.

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 16:50 schreef vigen98 het volgende:
Veel Assyriërs steunen Irak want we hadden het goed onder Saddam

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 16:50 schreef vigen98 het volgende:
Dat met de Koerden ligt een beetje gevoeliger want door de Ottomaanse genocide op Armenen, Grieken, Assyriërs ligt het wat gevoelig en zeker omdat Koerdische stammen dit gewoon ook deden

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 16:57 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Hard gepakt door Saddam? Dat weet ik niet Dat zou zo kunnen, alleen zo beleefden mijn ouders het niet, die hadden het gewoon goed dus dat weet ik alleen

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My cousin was working for the Iraqi government. As a Christian she refused to sleep with her supervisor. She was imprisoned for seven years.

Another relative served three years in Abu Ghraib for simply using our language - the real Abu Ghraib. Beatings were two times a day - after lunch and after dinner and hangings were every Wednesday and Thursday. His body is covered to this day with scars literally everywhere.

Two of my cousins are permanently disabled as were many in Iraq at that time. They are so mentally affected that they just sit and cry out all day. For many it was the only way to handle Saddams hell - to lose ones mind.

Visiting other relatives and finding almost always the telltale black and white pictures on the wall of family members killed in one of Saddams as they called it `stupid wars` - nearly a million, wonderful young men lost their lives.

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Although the Assyrian refugee migration began before WWI, the mass migration started in 1975 after the Algerian treaty between Iran and Iraq that enabled Saddam Hussein to destroy many Assyrian and Kurdish villages in the north. Many were executed; hundreds of thousands were forced to leave their lands and resettled in southern Iraq.

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Soon after, the Armenians of northern Iraq were brutally massacred by the newly established Iraqi state. Persecution continued during the reign of the Ba’ath Party and Saddam Hussein,

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 16:57 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Hard gepakt door Saddam? Dat weet ik niet Dat zou zo kunnen, alleen zo beleefden mijn ouders het niet, die hadden het gewoon goed dus dat weet ik alleen

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 17:08 schreef 0108daniel het volgende:
Was er maar een film over met die martelingen die IS hebben gedaan

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Russia has drafted a United Nations Security Council resolution intended to increase pressure on governments to cut off cash flowing to Islamic State, according to a Russian diplomat and three other UN diplomats.
The draft, which already has been circulated to the four other permanent members of the Security Council, will target the extremist militant group’s three main sources of revenue -- illegal oil exports, the sale of antiquities and ransom from hostage-taking, said two European diplomats at the UN in New York. The diplomats all asked not to be identified commenting on continued negotiations over the proposal.
Russia, which rarely writes Security Council resolutions, is taking the lead as it harbors growing concern over radicals from its Chechnya region joining Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the two diplomats said. The resolution will express the international community’s resolve to take more action against the extremist group, which most recently executed a captured Jordanian pilot and two Japanese citizens, they said.
The Russian mission to the UN is working on a draft resolution and hopes that it will be adopted in the coming days, Alexey Zaytsev, the mission’s spokesman, said in a text message without confirming what it will say.
An Arab diplomat to the UN said Russia also may have been moved to act because siding with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has weakened its ties with Gulf nations and, in turn, its influence in the Middle East.
Gulf countries such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been calling for Assad’s ouster since the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, while also pushing for action against Islamic State forces that have seized a swath of Syria and Iraq.

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 16:53 schreef PizzaMizza het volgende:

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Jullie hadden het niet goed onder Saddam. Veel Assyriers weten dit niet, maar tijdens de genocide tegen de Koerden werden veel Assyriers net zo hard meegepakt. Daarnaast moesten veel Assyriers zichzelf inschrijven als Arabische christen ipv Assyrier.

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 15:43 schreef PizzaMizza het volgende:

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Zwaar aan 't verliezen in Irak. Vergelijk de kaarten op 't begin maar eens met die van nu. Daarnaast zijn de Iraakse army en Koerdische Peshmerga bezig met een strategie om Mosul te heroveren, het ''hart'' van ISIS in Irak. Zodra Mosul terug gegeven is aan Irak, zal ISIS instorten aangezien hun hart kapot is gemaakt.

In Syrie hebben ze een keiharde nederlaag geleid door 4 maanden lang de Syrisch-Koerdische stad Kobani te willen veroveren waarin ze kei- en keihard hebben gefaald. Ze verloren belangrijke strijders en materieel, Kobane is nu een weekje of 2 bevrijd.

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rConflictNews twitterde op dinsdag 10-02-2015 om 18:27:25 #Jordan will not enter #Iraq without permission from Iraq gov, and Arab countries approval: close sources to Jordan gov - @nasseratta5 reageer retweet

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'Duizenden soldaten Jordanië bij grens Irak'

Jordanië heeft duizenden militairen naar de grens met Irak overgebracht. Dat heeft een Jordaanse regeringsbron dinsdag aan de Amerikaanse nieuwszender ABC laten weten.

Volgens de bron zijn de grondtroepen uit defensieve overwegingen naar de grens met Irak verplaatst. Hij zei dat de militairen voorlopig aan de Jordaanse kant van de grens blijven. Zonder toestemming van de Iraakse regering steken ze de grens niet over, aldus de bron. Maar volgens de speciale Amerikaanse gezant voor de strijd tegen Islamitische Staat (IS), generaal buiten dienst John Allen, begint er binnen enkele dagen een grondoffensief tegen IS in Irak. Allen zei dat het Iraakse leger het grondoffensief zal leiden. De door de Amerikanen geleide internationale coalitie, waarvan ook Nederland deel uitmaakt, zal volgens Allen assistentie verlenen.

Begin deze week liet de Jordaanse luchtmacht weten dat ze bijna zestig bombardementen had uitgevoerd op doelen van IS in het noordoosten van Syrië. Jordanië voerde de bombardementen op IS fors op als reactie op de gruwelijke moord op een Jordaanse piloot. Generaal Mansour al-Jbour heeft gezegd dat Jordanië vastbesloten is IS ,,van de aardbodem te vegen''.

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 18:24 schreef Peunage het volgende:

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Over het algemeen hadden christenen het goed onder Saddam Hoessein. Veel ellende bleef hen bespaard. Niet omdat hij zo van ze hield, maar omdat het een kleine minderheid was die zich niet met politiek of macht bemoeiden.

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 19:15 schreef Houtenbeen het volgende:

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 19:34 schreef PizzaMizza het volgende:

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Hoe omschrijf je goed? Ze werden beter behandeld dan de onschuldige sjiieten en Koerden, maar ik heb al meerdere bronnen laten zien die laten zien dat ze het niet goed hadden. Hadden ze het beter dan op dit moment? Ja, maar dat maakt 't nog steeds niet goed.

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 19:48 schreef Peunage het volgende:

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Jij hebt het over een specifiek geval tijdens de shit tegen de Koerden. Niet alle christenen hadden daar last van. Die in Baghdad bijvoorbeeld hadden daar niks mee te maken. Daarom zeg ik ook, over het algemeen hadden ze het prima. Er was geen reden om ze te intimideren.

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 19:52 schreef PizzaMizza het volgende:
Maar goed, hij is gelukkig weg. Ik hoop maar niet dat Irak ooit weer zo'n verschrikkelijke dictator krijgt. Hoe kwam hij eigenlijk aan de macht? Ik heb mij daar nooit in verdiept.

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A suicide bomber set off an explosive vest in a busy Baghdad square crowded with rush-hour commuters early Monday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens, officials said.

The attack took place in Adan Square, in a predominantly Shiite part of the capital, and appeared to be the latest in a near-daily string of attacks carried out by Sunni Islamic extremists targeting the country's Shiite majority.

A police officer provided the death toll and said 45 other people were wounded.

Hours after the attack, a bomb ripped through a commercial area in the capital's northeastern suburb of Husseiniyah, killing four civilians and wounding nine others, another police officer said.

Two medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to brief the media.

The attacks came two days after Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi lifted a midnight to 5 a.m. curfew in the capital that had been in place in various forms since 2004, when Iraq was engulfed in violence following the U.S.-led invasion the year before.

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EjmAlrai twitterde op woensdag 11-02-2015 om 14:05:32 #Peshmerga positionne its forces East, West and North of #Mosul, waiting for #ISF and militia to advance from the south (will be long) + reageer retweet

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EjmAlrai twitterde op woensdag 11-02-2015 om 14:06:48 #Peshmerga artillery is capable of bombarding the centre of #Mosul with some area only 10 miles away from the city centre + reageer retweet

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EjmAlrai twitterde op woensdag 11-02-2015 om 14:09:14 #Peshmerga took control of bridges in Eski & Al-Kasak & took position around Makhmur, al-Khazer, Guweyr. D attack on #Mosul is not imminent. reageer retweet

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EjmAlrai twitterde op woensdag 11-02-2015 om 14:10:31 But the attack against #IS in Mosul will be a coordinated attack between #Baghdad and #Erbil. #ISF needs 2conquer Tikrit 1st. #Iraq. #Kurds. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 10 februari 2015 15:43 schreef PizzaMizza het volgende:

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Zwaar aan 't verliezen in Irak. Vergelijk de kaarten op 't begin maar eens met die van nu. Daarnaast zijn de Iraakse army en Koerdische Peshmerga bezig met een strategie om Mosul te heroveren, het ''hart'' van ISIS in Irak. Zodra Mosul terug gegeven is aan Irak, zal ISIS instorten aangezien hun hart kapot is gemaakt.

In Syrie hebben ze een keiharde nederlaag geleid door 4 maanden lang de Syrisch-Koerdische stad Kobani te willen veroveren waarin ze kei- en keihard hebben gefaald. Ze verloren belangrijke strijders en materieel, Kobane is nu een weekje of 2 bevrijd.

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Following the capitulation of Iraq’s Security Forces in the wake of the fall of Mosul, Shia paramilitary forces have helped to fill the security void and to protect many cities including Baghdad. Grand Ayatollah Sayed Ali Al-Sistani’s fatwa (religious edict) called on Iraqis to volunteer for the armed forces as an act of national duty. Heeding the call, men of all ages have swelled the ranks of Iraq’s paramilitary groups such as the Peace Brigades, League of the Righteous, Badr Corps and more. These men of all walks of life have left their loved ones to serve on the frontlines and take the fight to ISIS. These dedicated individuals are giving their lives in a battle to defend not only Iraqis but the entire human race from the primordial evil that is ISIS.

ISIS hail from a long line of oppressors that have raped and pillaged Iraq’s holiest sites for centuries. In the seventh century AD the Prophet Muhammad’s granddaughters were held captive in the court of the Ummayad Caliph Yazid after beheading the Prophet’s grandson Imam Hussain on the plains of Karbala. The followers of Imam Hussain bore the brunt of similar brutality for centuries after. Karbala was ransacked in 1802, populations were massacred, and woman were kidnapped and raped – exactly as we see today. French eyewitness J.B. Rousseau recounts, “12,000 Wahhabis suddenly attacked the mosque of Imam Hussain…they put everything to fire and sword…The elderly, women, and children—everybody died by the barbarians’ sword. Besides, it is said that whenever they saw a pregnant woman, they disemboweled her and left the fetus on the mother’s bleeding corpse.”

The Shia fighters today hail from an ideology comprehensively opposite to that of ISIS. While ISIS fighters justify the slavery of Yazidi women, Shia are actively rescuing Yazidi girls and returning them to their families. As ISIS expelled Christians from north Iraq, thousands sought refuge in the Shia holy city of Najaf – inside the very shrine of Imam Ali, the Prophet’s cousin & son-in-law. Finally, ever since the unrest in Anbar in 2013 and all the way through to the ISIS chaos today, Sunni families have made the Shia holy city of Karbala their home. The Imam Hussain shrine serves 6000 meals daily to Christian, Sunni, and Shia Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). In opening their own homes, Iraqi Shia have proven they are not sectarian.

Images on social media have surfaced of Christian fighters joining the ranks of Shia paramilitary groups. A Shia pilot died saving Yazidis on Mount Sinjar after his helicopter crashed. Sunni tribes of Albu Nimir and Jubur have requested the help of Shia volunteers to fight alongside them in expelling ISIS out of the Sunni province of Anbar. Accordingly, Muqtada Al-Sadr and Hadi Al-Amiri have sent thousands of volunteers that they command to help. These examples, along with the others from the heat of battle, illustrate the non-sectarian nature of Iraq’s Shia.

Iraq’s Shia have proven themselves to be the most selfless and nationalistic population in the country. The Shia provinces give the most lives on the frontlines, host half a million IDPs according to UN Refugee Agency in Iraq, and represent the most effective anti-ISIS movement in the world – not a single Shia-majority town or city has ever fallen to ISIS. Amerli, a town of 20,000 Shia residents, held off an ISIS siege for over three months. Having been surrounded by 36 villages that had fallen to ISIS, Amerli emerged victorious in the midst of starvation and without water & power. Amerli became Iraq’s Stalingrad or as Dr. Abbas Kadhim put it, “The battle of the Alamo with a much happier ending”. Shia mothers have sacrificed thousands of their sons on the frontlines and in the daily car bombings that predominantly target Shia neighborhoods.
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Iraq analysts and commentators are eager to provide a Shia equivalent to ISIS even whilst the differences are glaring. ISIS invaded large swaths of Iraq in an effort to establish a global caliphate; Shia militias have no such ambition nor philosophy and have maintained a defensive approach throughout. ISIS enslave, rape, and murder Yazidi, Christian, and Shia women and justify the actions as part of their belief system; Shia forces do not abuse women nor have they systematically targeted minorities. ISIS view Yazidis, Shia as heretics while Shia scholars demand Yazidis be protected. To compare Shia fighters to ISIS terrorists is completely disrespectful and an outright travesty given their sacrifices. The media is doing an incredible injustice to these men fighting ISIS on behalf of the world. Instead of hailing these selfless individuals as heroes, the media attacks and dehumanizes them in a bid to equate them to ISIS.

Shia militias have proven to be the most effective fighting force against ISIS in the entire world. ISIS hate Shia more than any other group on the face of the planet; who better to serve up the victory than the Shia themselves? Iraqi Shia are battling against those vowing to exterminate the Shia identity. Shia militiamen fight with conviction and honour. In a sectarian environment where droves of Sunni scholars preach for the extermination of Shia everywhere, the Shia grand scholarship has declared that Sunnis shouldn’t be viewed as “brothers” but even further than that – as “our own souls”. It is to this decree that hundreds of thousands flocked to volunteer at the frontlines. Shia volunteers are not driven by a mentality of terror, but that of honour that trickles down from Grand Ayatollah Sayed Ali Al-Sistani.