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Iran-Backed Iraqi Militia Leader: Ceasefire with U.S. Is Over
[BREITBART] A conditional ceasefire suspending attacks on U.S. interests in Iraq has ended, the leader of an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia group declared on Thursday."The truce with the Americans has ended due to its conditions not being met," Qais al-Khazali, leader of the Iranian-backed Shiite militia group Asaib Ahl al-Haq, said in an interview with Iraqi state media on November 19, Kurdish news agency Rudaw reported on Friday.Asaib Ahl al-Haq is a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization and a member of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), a coalition of militias that worked with the United States to fight 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... . Many are Iran-backed militias that have regularly threatened the United States. The announcement followed news on November 17 that four rockets landed in Baghdad’s Green Zone, a heavily fortified area of the Iraqi capital housing foreign embassies, including that of the United States. In a statement, the Iraqi military said the bombing killed one child and injured five other civilians. The rockets that landed in the Green Zone "were launched from a neighborhood in al-Alf Dar district in New Baghdad," according to the statement. Tuesday’s assault took place on the same day that the U.S. announced plans to reduce its number of troops in Iraq from 3,000 to 2,500 by January 15, 2021. Observers said the targeting of an international zone signaled an end to a temporary halt of attacks on U.S. interests in Iraq by Iran-backed militias, established by the largely Shiite murderous Moslem groups through an informal truce in October. "Iraq’s Iranian-backed militia groups escalated attacks on US targets in Iraq, including the embassy in Baghdad and bases housing American troops, after the US killed Qasem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds force, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces, on January 3," Rudaw recalled on Friday. "The militias agreed in October to suspend the attacks on condition that Washington withdraws its troops." Posted by: Fred 2020-11-22 |
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