From Middle East Observer
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The military spokesman of the Iraqi Kataib Hezbollah (Hezbollah Brigades), Ja’far al-Husseini, said in a recent interview that Iraq’s prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi unmasked his real intentions by raiding one of the group’s logistical headquarters in Baghdad.
Al-Husseini said that the Iraqi prime minister’s real intention is to confront the Hezbollah Brigades and the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) as a whole, and to protect the presence of American forces in the country.
More than a dozen members of Kata’ib Hezbollah were reportedly detained during the raid in southern Baghdad in the early hours of Friday (June 26, 2020). Initial reports said several commanders of the anti-US group, which is integrated into Iraq’s security forces, were among those arrested.
Kataib Hezbollah is a key faction within the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU).
Source: Al Mayadeen News (YouTube)
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Ja’far al-Husseini, military spokesman for the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades (Kataib Hezbollah):
First, we must start with the US that chose a specific target in Iraq. (The US) chose to directly target a specific faction (i.e Hezbollah Brigades), even though it knows that all Iraqi (resistance) factions work side by side with the (Iraqi) Islamic Resistance, the Hezbollah (Brigades). The Iraqi (resistance) factions say openly and publically that they work as a single bloc to confront the US. Their belief in these words was reinforced on the ground after the martyrdom (of Soleimani and al-Muhandis), through which the Americans wanted to break up our united country.
The US chose a target in Iraq (Hezbollah Brigades) and chose to attack us, which made us hold on more to our decision to expel the American forces (out of the Iraq) and fight them with all means. We announced from day one that we are open to all options and we acted accordingly.
Then the Americans tried to manipulate some political parties, and unfortunately, they succeeded in convincing the (Iraqi) prime minister (Mustafa al-Kadhimi) who obeyed their orders and stood against not only the Hezbollah Brigades but the entire Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF). This was his (Kadhimi’s) choice. If we want to talk about the motive behind his decision, we believe that there are advisers around him who have deluded him that by doing this, he will win the support of the Iraqi people and give the Americans a clear concrete proof (of his loyalty), such that if he travels to the United States with a record that shows that he stood against and put pressure on the (Iraqi) Hezbollah Brigades. What happened in Bo’aitha (a district within Baghdad) was only (for Kadhimi) to give (Americans) a proof (of his loyalty). However, he chose the wrong path.
Instead of focusing on serving the Iraqi people and following up on essential files inside Iraq, he decided to confront the PMF that protected the Iraqi state – not only the government and officials, but (protected) the entire country when it collapsed in 2014. Security services didn’t have (the capacity)…I am talking (about an area beginning) from Baghdad to the western borders (of Iraq), and to the northern borders with Kurdistan. There were no clear borders for the Iraqi state, even inside Baghdad and the Green Zone. The country collapsed completely.
The factions of the resistance are the ones who stopped the expansion of ISIS and had fierce confrontations with it, way before the establishment of the PMF. Therefore, when the fatwa was issued, these factions joined the PMF and exercised their work with sincerity to protect the Iraqi state. We never cared if the people of a certain province belong to a different sect, or if this province is controlled by a different (political) bloc. We were defending the entire country. We left the matter to the government at that time to deal with problems in Iraqi society and the political process. Our focus was to carry on these (military) operations.
Therefore, he, and I mean the (Iraqi) prime minister, who decided to stand up against the PMF, will find himself in confrontation with the Iraqi people as a whole because the people fully believe that the PMF is the reason for this state’s existence and preservation. I am not only talking about a specific section (of people) that support the resistance, but about all the Iraqi people who still remember (our sacrifices).
The prime minister’s move to stand against the PMF was wrong. At the time, it revealed to us his intentions which we (had) talked about in the past when we said that the prime minister came up with a deal – even if it was temporary- that masks (his real) intentions of confronting the Hezbollah Brigades and protecting the American forces.
What does the prime minister want from the arrest of a young group at a PMF logistical support headquarter (that was targeted)? A headquarter that provides logistical support to (resistance) factions across the Iraqi borders and the provincial borders. He (Kadhimi) claims (that the PMF) are attacking the US forces – the same forces which every Iraqi wants out of the country.
The US will never leave Iraq. It enables them to make war against the people of Iraq, the government of Iran and the government of Syria. These are US goals.
They will corrupt or get rid of any Iraqi leader that does not obey US orders.
The US wants to keep China and Russia out of Iraq, and the Americans will stay at minimum costs.
Though IEDs are terrifying and limit US mobility, what is needed, if Iraq is to throw off the American yoke, is MANPADS to create heavy, unacceptable losses. If helos and transports cannot safely fly over Iraq, the US will be compelled to leave.
It’s been six months since Soleimani and the Katib Hezbollah leader were assassinated. Very few Americans have paid the price for these crimes. At this rate, Iraq will be under US control for another half century.
An insurgency that succeeds strikes high.
It is fairly clear that Iran seems satisfied with what it did as payback.
We shall see if the Iraqi people fight or acquiesce.
Do we really even know what exactly Iran did as payback?
It often so happens that when the US and Israel strike against Iran, every media outlet on the planet announces and glorifies the deed. When Iran in turn makes a move against them, neither the Western media nor Iranian media makes a peep about it.
Judging by the information that is put out there, the score is 100-0 in favor of the US-Israeli team. And yet, how could that be true, when facts on the ground point to a hundredfold expansion of Iranian influence over the past decade?
first they came to iraq to protect kuwait from saddam
then they came again to save iraqis from saddam
then they stayed to fight isis
then they prolonged their stay to… i sh** you not…. help iraq with the corona virus!
just saw an humanitarian “we are here to help” news piece about iraq having it tough in the battle
against corona on CNN
Actually the pretext to the first invasion of Iraq was to let Saddam occupy Kuwait. He literally asked the Americans if he was allowed to do that, they gave him the green light and he fell for it. Then came operations desert shield and desert storm, followed by the most brutal and strongest 13 year sanctioning of a nation in modern history. Once that was over, it was time for the final invasion using 9-11 as a pretext. Iraq was the key to Al-Qaeda, ISIS and the break up of Syria.
Iraq was and is still the most successful textbook Western-Zionist planning post 1948 formation of the Zionist State of Israel.
RATM, as I review the appalling number of corona virus deaths here in the States, I would hope “we” would focus our efforts on fighting the pandemic here….. something tells me the Iraqis would manage just fine without our “help”. As in “What part of leave,and get out, do the Americans fail to understand?”.
” as I review the appalling number of corona virus deaths here in the States, ”
You have been fooled by the MSM. The term “cases” is meaningless. Everyone who recovered from Covid19 has fragments of dead Coronavirus in their system. This leads to a positive PCR result. It is like someone finding the arm of a soldier on a battlefield and reporting a live and healthy combatant. Complete nonsense.
The number of dead and dying in the USA is trivial. Take a look at this:
http://alongchat.com/stuff/cov1.jpg
It is all a massive psychological operation to destroy your future. A color revolution in the USA.
Well, you forget to mention that first, they talked Saddam Hussein into attacking Iran in 1980. The war lasted eight years and did untold damage to both countries (while the West sold arms to Iraq; Israel sold to both). And even before that, SH was picked by CIA to lead Iraq, first in the background, then openly. After 1988, someone, somewhere decided to get rid of him, initiating a decade-long sanction regime and quiet destruction of the country.
It should be clear to everyone at this point that the US (ie. Israeli) policy in the Middle East is essentially to seek destabilization of any government not in the service of the empire. While our homeland is overrun by an invasion of millions of alien foreigners, while our own culture and people are under attack at home, our vaunted military is too busy attempting to impose Israeli policy in the ME that it can’t spare a single battalion to defend the USA, our borders or our people.
The military’s objective is total control, first among its ranks, second among its gvt, thirdly among its citizens, and finally brought overseas to expand the greatness of its own version of democracy. And the military is a tough nut to crack so this could go on for a while.
“the military is a tough nut to crack ”
That is not a prevailing view in “the Pentagon” or in “other departments of state” for differing reasons.
“so this could go on for a while.”
Going on for a while is not wholly a function of “the military is a tough nut to crack” , although some, apparently including you, appear to believe so.
I guess it really depends on where your point of view is coming from, I wouldnt expect the pentagon or even the dept of state to admit to being so.
And even once proved, they would quickly fall into the category of instant denial where so many of their gvt brothers and sisters have drifted once fallen into that bottomless.
This has gone on for a while which is why I say that it still could go on for a while, and probably shall.
US and its puppets sees need to be firm now otherwise need to escalate and go in again later.
What makes you think the US is overrun with “foreign invader? Don’t US companies coax them here? Are they not victims of rapacious Capitalism?
I assumed the foreign Invaders refered to the likes of Soros, Epstein, Adelson, Zuckerberg, Kushner, etc.
Yes – thats the hypocracy.
But its also about ensuring Iraq continues to price oil in US$ to prop up demand for it on world money mkts.
Israeli issues are secondary. And keeping the Saudis happy in containing islamic extremism.
The National Guard should be defending the US border with minefields and barbed wire as well as walls. And dealing with domestic rioters. Problem is State Governors and elections due in Nov.