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Iraqi Resistanceâ Said Preparing for âDecisiveâ Battle To Control Baghdad
The Iraqi Resistance is planning to obstruct flights and halt transport of oil.The Iraqi Resistance is preparing for what it says is a decisive and basic battle for the control of Baghdad in the next two days. Reports say that the groups of Baâthist resistors have become active recently. They appeared to be in control of positions along the streets of Baghdad during the night, thus compelling the US forces to implement plans devised for US withdrawals throughout the night and a return to exercise control over the streets during the daytime. The Iraqi Resistance appears to be following a systematic plan, not to prevent the handover of power on 30 June 2004 but to benefit from such a handover and to invest in it militarily and in practice, especially as the substitute Iraqi security forces will not be logically and militarily ready to take over the occupiersâ positions. The interim prime minister, Iyad Allawi, has hinted at that several times. In line with those tactics, sources close to the Iraqi Resistance have leaked to Al-Quds al-Arabi information to the effect that a fierce battle will be waged with the aim of controlling Baghdad or large sections of the city in the next few hours and prior to the date of handing over power. With the efforts that will be made to restrict the movement of military and civilian flights over Baghdad, the Resistance is at the same time planning to continue to strike at oil pipelines and installations and obstruct the production and transport of oil completely next week when the hand-over of power will take place, all within the framework of an integrated strategy to exploit the objective reality and harass the occupiers and their aides who will take over power. (snip)
Posted by: Capt America 2004-07-01 |
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