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He’s Back: Muqtada Al-Sadr Wins Big In Iraqi Elections
As the noose was placed around Saddam Hussein’s neck in December 2006, his masked guards yelled: “Muqtada! Muqtada! Muqtada!”
As in Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shiite cleric who is best known as a one-time — and possibly future — U.S. foe who may have finally outfoxed the Americans, Iranians, and Iraq’s political elite to become the supreme political power in Iraq.
The hidden hand behind the Islamic State militants? Saddam Hussein’s.
By Liz Sly April 4, 2015 Email the author
SANLIURFA, Turkey — When Abu Hamza, a former Syrian rebel, agreed to join the Islamic State, he did so assuming he would become a part of the group’s promised Islamist utopia, which has lured foreign jihadists from around the globe.
Instead, he found himself being supervised by an Iraqi emir and receiving orders from shadowy Iraqis who moved in and out of the battlefield in Syria. When Abu Hamza disagreed with fellow commanders at an Islamic State meeting last year, he said, he was placed under arrest on the orders of a masked Iraqi man who had sat silently through the proceedings, listening and taking notes.
Abu Hamza, who became the group’s ruler in a small community in Syria, never discovered the Iraqis’ real identities, which were cloaked by code names or simply not revealed. All of the men, however, were former Iraqi officers who had served under Saddam Hussein, including the masked man, who had once worked for an Iraqi intelligence agency and now belonged to the Islamic State’s own shadowy security service, he said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6d7bf7949e7e
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These are the same people beating the war drums for Iran.
How could anyone trust or listen to these people?
They are the architects of the largest foreign policy blunder in the history of this nation. These guys should be hiding out on a ranch like Bush, ashamed of their failure. Instead, they want to go for a sequel. From Iraq: The disaster, to Iran: the sequel to Iraq, and prequel to WWIII, AKA the real life Infinity Wars.
Anyone who supports military action by the US against Iran, is not only incapable of learning from history, but is incapable of learning from recent events.
Discuss......
As the noose was placed around Saddam Hussein’s neck in December 2006, his masked guards yelled: “Muqtada! Muqtada! Muqtada!”
As in Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shiite cleric who is best known as a one-time — and possibly future — U.S. foe who may have finally outfoxed the Americans, Iranians, and Iraq’s political elite to become the supreme political power in Iraq.
- Sadr, whose forces fought U.S. troops in 2004, appears to be the big winner in Iraq’s parliamentary elections, according to media reports. Although he did not run for office, his coalition has received far more votes than current Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s political block, initial election results show.
- That means it is entirely possible that Sadr could pick the next Iraqi government by deciding which political party to form a coalition with.
- No word from Washington yet about what Sadr’s fortunes at the ballot box mean for the U.S. relationship with Iraq in the fight against ISIS. “We are awaiting the announcement of the official results and look forward to the formation of the new government,” a State Department official told Task & Purpose on Monday. “We aren’t going to get ahead of that.”
- A Pentagon spokesman told Eric Pahon that the U.S. government does not support any particular Iraqi candidate or party. “We support a fair and transparent process,” he said. “We stand ready to work with whoever is fairly elected by the Iraqi people"
The hidden hand behind the Islamic State militants? Saddam Hussein’s.
By Liz Sly April 4, 2015 Email the author
SANLIURFA, Turkey — When Abu Hamza, a former Syrian rebel, agreed to join the Islamic State, he did so assuming he would become a part of the group’s promised Islamist utopia, which has lured foreign jihadists from around the globe.
Instead, he found himself being supervised by an Iraqi emir and receiving orders from shadowy Iraqis who moved in and out of the battlefield in Syria. When Abu Hamza disagreed with fellow commanders at an Islamic State meeting last year, he said, he was placed under arrest on the orders of a masked Iraqi man who had sat silently through the proceedings, listening and taking notes.
Abu Hamza, who became the group’s ruler in a small community in Syria, never discovered the Iraqis’ real identities, which were cloaked by code names or simply not revealed. All of the men, however, were former Iraqi officers who had served under Saddam Hussein, including the masked man, who had once worked for an Iraqi intelligence agency and now belonged to the Islamic State’s own shadowy security service, he said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6d7bf7949e7e
______________________________________________________
These are the same people beating the war drums for Iran.
How could anyone trust or listen to these people?
They are the architects of the largest foreign policy blunder in the history of this nation. These guys should be hiding out on a ranch like Bush, ashamed of their failure. Instead, they want to go for a sequel. From Iraq: The disaster, to Iran: the sequel to Iraq, and prequel to WWIII, AKA the real life Infinity Wars.
Anyone who supports military action by the US against Iran, is not only incapable of learning from history, but is incapable of learning from recent events.
Discuss......
