[Centraal] Irak en IS #120

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Op maandag 16 februari 2015 01:20 schreef Aloulu het volgende:

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Nasibi

جبهتنا منصورة - اكثر من رائع

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Op zondag 15 februari 2015 18:22 schreef Peunage het volgende:
Asa'ib Ahl Al-Haq (sjiitische militie) hebben de daders van Spyker (massa slachting van 1700 ongewapende cadetten van het leger) te pakken gekregen.

المقاومة الاسلامية عصائب أهل الحق تلقي ألقبض على أخطر منفذي جريمة سبايكر [ إعترافات خطيرة ]

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Op maandag 16 februari 2015 11:00 schreef Slayage het volgende:

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wie si die gast met die tulband?

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KirkukNewsDesk twitterde op zondag 15-02-2015 om 16:02:21 #Kirkuk Governor ordered the destruction of the 4 swords statue in Arafa, a symbol of the Ba'ath Party #TwitterKurds http://t.co/ZKbRhWYpbJ reageer retweet

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Op maandag 16 februari 2015 11:06 schreef UpsideDown het volgende:

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KirkukNewsDesk twitterde op zondag 15-02-2015 om 16:02:21 #Kirkuk Governor ordered the destruction of the 4 swords statue in Arafa, a symbol of the Ba'ath Party #TwitterKurds http://t.co/ZKbRhWYpbJ reageer retweet

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Op maandag 16 februari 2015 11:33 schreef Slayage het volgende:

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waarom nu pas? is alweer een tijdje terug dat saddam er niet meer is

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sayed_ridha twitterde op maandag 16-02-2015 om 12:18:02 “@umm_alabbas: Al Huwaysh near Samarrā the birthplace of our Khalifā Ibrahīm is liberated and in the hands of Islamic State. Alhamdullilah” reageer retweet

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Op zondag 15 februari 2015 19:17 schreef reza1 het volgende:

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Zonder Hezbollah kan er niet geregeerd worden in Libanon, ook kunnen er geen belangrijke beslissing worden genomen zonder de toestemming van Hezbollah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_conflict_in_Lebanon
En veel christenen steunen Hezbollah ook.

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Dat kan je ook zeggen over de Amerikaanse, Turkse of elk ander land relatie met de KRG.

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De Houthi's hebben inmiddels het regime afgezet en de macht overgenomen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%E2%80%9315_Yemeni_coup_d'%C3%A9tat Dus die interesse hebben ze zeker wel.
Veel niet-sjiieten steunen de Houthi's ook.

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En het levert ze veel ervaring op. Hezbollah is veel sterker dan in 2006, dat zeggen zelfs de zionisten.

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Dat hebben ze wel dergelijk, zonder de steun van Iran krijgt Hamas geen wapens.

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Op maandag 16 februari 2015 14:02 schreef Slayage het volgende:

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Op maandag 16 februari 2015 14:04 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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was dit niet voor een ander topic bedoeld?

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YousefMunayyer twitterde op vrijdag 13-02-2015 om 16:49:07 "If you take out Saddam's regime I guarantee you it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region" - @netanyahu to Congress 2002 reageer retweet

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Tom_Antonov twitterde op maandag 16-02-2015 om 14:23:48 #Peshmerga wheel chair with italian anti tank 80mm Folgore :-)#Italy #Iraq #IS http://t.co/MBgDfVtw6U reageer retweet

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Iraqi security forces have apprehended two senior ISIL commanders believed to be relatives of the terrorist group’s leader, Ibrahim al-Samarrai aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraqi security sources say.

The arrests were made on Sunday following a security operation near the city of Samarra in Salaheddin Province, Iraq’s state-owned television cited an unnamed security source as saying.

“A group from the Regiment Special Assignments was able to arrest Baghdadi’s uncle, named Saleh Ibrahim Abdulmomen and niece’s husband Dhiya Nouri Sadoun,” the source from the southern Dhi Qar governorate’s police said

Last December, Lebanese Interior Ministry announced that the young daughter of Baghdadi along with her mother was held in the country.

On December 2, 2014, Lebanon’s security officials said they had detained the ISIL head’s wife and son at a border crossing with Syria. However, the Iraqi government later said she was not married to Baghdadi.

Baghdad said the woman, identified as Saja al-Dulaimi, was the daughter of a member of the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front in Syria.

A day later, Lebanon’s Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk said Dulaimi is not Baghdadi's wife currently, adding, “She has been married three times: first to a man from the former Iraqi regime, with whom she had two sons.”

He further said that she was married to Baghdadi several years ago “for three months and she had a daughter with him.”

The Lebanese minister noted that DNA tests on her and the daughter confirmed that she is the mother of the girl who is Baghdadi's “daughter, based on DNA from Baghdadi from Iraq.”

The ISIL terrorists currently control large areas of Iraq and Syria. The group sent its militants into Iraq in June 2014, seizing large parts of land straddling the border between Syria and Iraq.

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rConflictNews twitterde op dinsdag 17-02-2015 om 10:15:34 #ISIS captures 250 Iraqi Soldiers. #Iraq - @M_Seloom http://t.co/6XGp2OIvX4 reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 17 februari 2015 10:23 schreef Houtenbeen het volgende:

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rConflictNews twitterde op dinsdag 17-02-2015 om 10:15:34 #ISIS captures 250 Iraqi Soldiers. #Iraq - @M_Seloom http://t.co/6XGp2OIvX4 reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 17 februari 2015 10:23 schreef Houtenbeen het volgende:

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rConflictNews twitterde op dinsdag 17-02-2015 om 10:15:34 #ISIS captures 250 Iraqi Soldiers. #Iraq - @M_Seloom http://t.co/6XGp2OIvX4 reageer retweet

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NewsOnTheMin twitterde op dinsdag 17-02-2015 om 13:47:50 Iraqi Police chief says ISIS burned to death 45 people in the western Anbar town of al-Baghdadi. (@yeh1a)” reageer retweet

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The head of Hezbollah says the Lebanese resistance movement has been fighting the ISIL Takfiri group in Iraq.

“We may not have spoken about Iraq before, but we have a limited presence because of the sensitive phase that Iraq is going through,” Nasrallah said on Monday in a speech delivered in commemoration of Hezbollah’s martyrs, Sheikh Ragheb Harb, Sayyed Abbas al-Mousawi and Hajj Imad Moughhnieh, in Sayyed al-Shuhadaa Complex in Dahiyeh, located in the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut.

The Iraqi army along with volunteer forces and tribesmen are fighting against the ISIL terrorist group which currently controls large areas of Iraq and Syria. The group sent its militants into Iraq in June 2014, seizing large parts of land straddling the border between Syria and Iraq.

Fighters from Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement have been backing the Syrian army in the fight against the Takfiri militants operating inside Syria.

“I call for those who are urging us to withdraw from Syria to join us in our fight in Syria. Let's go to Iraq and everywhere to face off this threat because this is the right way to defend Lebanon,” Nasrallah said.

Jordan's duplicity

Nasrallah further criticized Jordan’s double standards in the fight against terrorism, saying that all terrorist groups follow the same mentality.

"Jordan cannot fight ISIL in Iraq and support al-Nusra in Syria, terrorist groups are all faces of the same coin."

The al-Qaeda liked al-Nusra Front and the ISIL terrorist group have "the same essence, ideology, culture and methodology," the head of Hezbollah said, adding, "The only difference between them was over leadership, but they are essentially one and the same."

"All the Takfiri currents must be fought, without distinction," he further noted.

Nasrallah’s remarks came as Jordan has vowed to intensify airstrikes against ISIL strongholds following the immolation of a Jordanian pilot held hostage by the terrorist group.

Several Arab countries, including Jordan, are taking part in the US-led military coalition that has purportedly been targeting ISIL positions in Syria without any authorization from Damascus or a UN mandate.

This is while the same Arab countries have been accused of supporting the Takfiris in Syria and Iraq, where the ISIL terrorists have been wreaking havoc.

"How can some countries in the (Persian) Gulf take part in the (US-led) international coalition against Daesh, while giving money and weapons to the al-Nusra Front... How is that logical?" Nasrallah added.

Bahrain regime 'terrified'

Nasrallah also described the government in Bahrain as a “terrified” regime, saying Hezbollah supports the Bahraini people.

“There is a terrified and weak government in Bahrain that fears any word of right, it even threatens to expel the Lebanese,” Nasrallah said.

Nasrallah slammed the countries that criticize Hezbollah’s stance on the developments in Bahrain, adding those arm militants, including ISIL, in Syria cannot criticize Hezbollah’s position on Bahrain.

“We did not call for toppling the regime in Bahrain, we only supported those who were calling for dialogue,” he further noted.

On January 9, Nasrallah highlighted the peaceful nature of anti-regime protests in Bahrain during a ceremony marking the birthday of Prophet Mohammad.

The Hezbollah leader further slammed the detention of Bahraini opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, last month.

“The people of Bahrain have legitimate rights. They decided to launch peaceful revolution in contrary to other movements in the world. They are shot but they didn't shoot (a bullet). They were killed on roads, but they didn't kill anyone and held no knife,” Nasrallah said.

In a letter posted on Twitter on January 12, dozens of Bahraini activists praised Nasrallah’s support for their uprising and said the Lebanese resistance movement “didn’t hesitate to stand by our demands of justice, freedom and dignity”.

Dozens of Bahrainis used the hashtag #شكرا_لنصر_الله (Thanks_to_Nasrallah) in their Tweets.

“You always stand by the oppressed people in the world. And your support to the Bahraini people is because that you know very well we are righteous people who are abandoned by the political regimes and the governments which don’t care but for its interests,” the Bahraini activists addressed Nasrallah.

Since mid-February 2011, thousands of protesters have been holding held numerous rallies in the streets of Bahrain, calling for the Al Khalifa royal family to relinquish power.

The Manama regime has, however, responded to the peaceful protest rallies by launching a heavy-handed crackdown on demonstrators and political dissidents.

Bahrain has come under harsh criticism by many human rights groups for brutal clampdown on peaceful gatherings and numerous cases of human rights violations.

Yemen’s Houthis rightful

The head of Hezbollah praised the Houthi movement in Yemen for their contribution to restrain the expansion of Takfiri groups in the region.

He further described the Yemen’s Shia Ansarullah movement as “rightful”, “brave” and “wise”.

Over the past months, al-Qaeda militants have frequently carried out attacks on Yemen’s security forces. The militants have been also engaged in battles with Ansarullah.

In September 2014, Ansarullah fighters gained control of the capital city of Sana’a, following a four-day battle with army forces loyal to General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, the half-brother of the country’s former dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The Ansarullah revolutionaries say the Yemeni government has been incapable of properly running the affairs of the country and providing security.

Israel ISIL's sole beneficiary

The leader of the Lebanese resistance movement further noted that Israel is the only entity in the region of the Middle East that benefits from the ISIL Takfiri group.

“All world…consider ISIL a huge threat, except Israel,” Nasrallah said. “ISIL agenda had immensely served the Israeli."
ISIL against Islam and Christianity

Nasrallah condemned execution of Egyptian Coptic Christians by ISIL Takfiris Libya, noting, “We extend our condolences to the Egyptian people and the Coptic Church, this crime has affected both Islam and Christianity.”

The ISIL Takfiri terrorists released a five-minute video on Sunday showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians kidnapped in Libya.

The video showed the handcuffed hostages dressed in orange jumpsuits, similar to previous ISIL victims, kneeling down along the seaside near the Libyan capital city of Tripoli.

The ISIL had earlier published the photos of the 21 Egyptian workers, claiming that the pictures were taken moments before their decapitation.

The victims, whose photos were published in the latest online edition of the ISIL magazine Dabiq, were reportedly abducted in the Libyan coastal city of Sirte in two attacks in December last year and January.

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A bulletin from the Expediency Council, a state body chaired by influential former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has offered rare insight into Iran’s strategic thinking over Iraq.

The report, from the council’s Centre for Strategic Research, entitled Concerns about Iraq and Considerations for the Future, has not been widely publicized. The author, Hassan Ahmadian, is an analyst at the council.

One “positive event of major importance” highlighted by Ahmadian is the west’s acceptance of Iranian weapons sales to Iraq insofar as they contribute to the broader struggle against the Islamic State group (Isis), despite a United Nations embargo on Iranian arms exports. But the report also warns that a weakening of Isis will lead the west one again to question Iran’s role.

Expressions of concern over Iran’s role against Isis by the United States have been muted. It “would raise serious concerns,” Jennifer Psaki, state department spokeswoman, said last year. Passed in 2007, UN Security Council Resolution 1747 bans Iran’s sale or export of heavy arms.

Iranian officials have never confirmed the extent of arms supplies. However, a figure of $16bn was given in January by Mehdi Tayeb, head of the Ammar base, a body set up to respond to the alleged “soft war” of the US against Iran in the wake of unrest after the disputed 2009 presidential election. Speaking in the Emam Javad mosque in Tehran on 19 January, Tayeb said this was the amount supplied since Isis’ “first attacks”, possibly referring to the group’s offensive last June when it seized a swathe of Iraq including the northern city of Mosul.

This confirms a huge increase in the flow of arms from Iran since Reuters in February last year acquired evidence of $195m in Iranian weapon supplies including mortars, tank parts, artillery, night-vision goggles and wireless communications equipment.

The Expediency Council bulletin reflects a growing sense in Iran that its role in Iraq is being perceived more favourably. As well as citing a relaxed western attitude towards arms supplies, it finds an increasing regional and global acceptance of the Quds force, the overseas arm of the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard corps). The report points out the western media are less inclined to identify the Quds force’s activities as “terrorism”, and that several western officials have requested meetings with its leader General Qassem Suleimani.

The report suggests the more favourable evaluation of Iran by foreign powers has also resulted from Tehran’s work last summer in negotiating the transition from Nouri al-Maliki to Haidar al-Abadi as prime minister, and from its “unprecedented” role in bringing at least a temporary solution to problems between Iraqi Kurdistan and Iraq’s central government.

But the bulletin also highlights recent developments in Iraq it says threaten Iranian interests. One “serious challenge” is Iraq’s improving relations with other regional states, including Saudi Arabia and Turkey. The bulletin emphasises that while Iraq has been the main source of assistance to Iraq against Isis, Turkey and Saudi Arabia are now taking advantage of Iraq’s security needs.

The report also considers a request – apparently made discretely by Iraq – for discussions over border arrangements. This has been a sensitive issue since the 1975 Algiers Accord, in which Iraq made a concession in agreeing the southern border as the thalweg, or deepest channel, of the Shatt al-Arab waterway (known to Iranians as Arvand Rud): Saddam Hussein revoked the agreement in 1980 as he launched an eight-year war with Iran, but it was restored as part of the ceasefire in 1988.

The bulletin identifies a further challenge in Iraq’s steps toward establishing a Sunni national guard to restore some Sunni Arab influence in a Shia-dominated political landscape, and points out the US is supporting the guard’s formation and training Arab Sunni tribes with help from Jordan. The report suggests such a plan could weaken the control of Iraq’s central government over provinces with Sunni Arab majorities.

Running through the report is the suggestion that with Isis now on the defensive, and concerns over the danger it poses diminishing, questions over Iran’s role in Iraq may again come to the fore. It therefore warns Iran’s leaders to be prepared for inevitable “pressure”.

In driving its point home, the bulletin refers to the sanctions committee of the UN Security Council identifying three cases of sanctions violations over arms exports by Tehran, one of which – previously unreported, it says – is Suleimani’s presence in Iraq.

Hence the report will be all the more closely read in Iran’s leadership circles after the claim from Suleimani last week that Isis and other “terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria...are nearing the end of their lives”.

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EjmAlrai twitterde op dinsdag 17-02-2015 om 22:56:39 Barzani:"Not one Shia militia will enter Kirkuk". he is right. Not one but hundreds. See videohttps://t.co/jgFqVo0uq0 via @Observe70083943 reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 17 februari 2015 23:05 schreef UpsideDown het volgende:

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EjmAlrai twitterde op dinsdag 17-02-2015 om 22:56:39 Barzani:"Not one Shia militia will enter Kirkuk". he is right. Not one but hundreds. See videohttps://t.co/jgFqVo0uq0 via @Observe70083943 reageer retweet

موكب المجاهد هادي العامري في مدينه كركوك

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