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National Front Formed To Liberate Iraq
As U.S. and British forces further fanned across Iraq, a host of Iraqi patriots vowed organized resistance by setting up a National Front for the Liberation of Iraq.
| Oh, this is gonna be good... |
A statement entitled "Aggression Ends, Liberation Begins", a copy of which was obtained by IslamOnline.net Friday, April 11, said the new Front comprises local representatives of armed groups and resistance brigades, some still manning positions in Iraq along with Arab volunteer fighters.
I have a feeling this will turn out to be like Afghanistan, where hardly a week goes by without some new group announcing its formation and making blood curdling threats, only to never be heard from again.
| Yeah. And I have a feeling that the ones who're caught are going to turn out to be Syrians, Paleos, Jordanians, and similar riff-raff... |
"Also, there are concerted efforts to add large numbers of Iraqi army soldiers, Republican Guard and Special Forces members to the Front," read the statement.
| That's because they did such a bang-up job resisting the Hated Infidels™... |
"Iraq may lose the war, but it would never surrender or die," underlined the statement.
"Us Syrians Iraqis will never put up with being deprived of our dictator!" |
As for the U.S. plans to install former army general Jay Garner in power in post-war Iraq, the Liberation Front underlined that the "Iraqi people will never allow this Zionist and Sharon-relative general to rule them." Garner is due to take up the post of head of an interim administration for Iraq in the coming days. He has stated political views in total support of Israel and his ties with the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs have prompted accusations of Zionism from some Arab critics. The former general has been regularly denounced by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for his views.
| If CAIR hadn't denounced him, I'd be worried... |
The Liberation Front branded as "Thief of Baghdad" Iraqi opposition leader Ahmed Chalabi, the Pentagon's favorite for the leadership of Iraq after the end of the occupation phase. "Iraqis are against the likes of Chalabi who should be described as the 40 thieves," the statement said, referring to the persons invited by Washington for a conference on the future of Iraq.
| I dunno. He'd have to be a master hand at thievery to outdo Don Saddam and his capos... |
The statement mentioned Adham al-Samra'y, the former Iraqi Military Intelligence chief, and Nizar Kharazzi, the former General Intelligence chief. "They are agents for the CIA," it charged. The statement made clear that Iraqis would not accept "their territories to be distributed among the murderers, the invaders; or to be racially divided."
| "Nope. Nope. We intend to plunder it ourselves, soon's we get rid of those damned infidels..." |
It carried the National Front for the Liberation of Iraq's determination to "liberate" Iraq and boot out the occupation forces. "The Iraqi people should keep in mind that what happens in their country is reminiscent of the situation in Palestine, south Sudan, the battle is common and the enemy is common," underlined the statement.
I guess they must view the conflict in South Sudan differently from the rest of the world, unless they suddenly are feeling sympathy for the million Christians and Animists killed by an Islamist Arab regime, but somehow I doubt it.
In a telephone interview with IslamOnline.net from Paris, Iraqi opposition member and columnist El-Amir el-Rakabi said reliable political sources told him the Front founders belong to some Islamic and nationalist trends in Iraq.
I wonder who makes up the 'Islamic trends' part of the alliance, any Shias like Al-Badr Brigades or Hezbollah, or are they all Sunnis? For that matter, I wonder what portion will consist of local Fadayeen, Baathist, Republican Guard Nationalists and what portion will be Jihadis just along for the chance to kill some infidels..
| It's probably significant that this guy is safe in France, where the gummint loves him and his ilk most to death, and not in, say, Najaf... |
"The sources, who left Iraq on Thursday, told me that the Front was formed through intensive contacts shortly after the U.S. forces occupied Baghdad and the Iraqi regime fell," El-Rakabi said.
| Oh, they left Iraq on Thursday, did they? In the dead of night, perhaps? With suitcases full of cash? That's what usually happens when the dictator's henchmen beat it out of town... |
He said that "all of the Front members share a common concern; feeling the bitterness of defeat at the hands of the occupation forces."
| Yup. It's the displaced Baathists... |
The Front will start accepting volunteers within coming few hours, El-Rakabi said, calling on all national powers in the Arab countries to support the newly-formed liberation body with money and weapons in order to liberate Iraq from the Anglo-American occupation.
I'm guessing the Baath party branches in other Middle Eastern countries will be one of the primary organisers for this 'Liberation Body', so apart from Syria preasure should be put on Jordan, Yemen and Lebanon to deal with the Baath branches in their countries.
Posted by: Paul Moloney 2003-04-13 |
