20th July: The Iraqi Security Forces have opened up another from against Daash and are now making a push westwards towards Fallujah. The army claims that “98% of Ramadi is now clear of terrorists.”
20th July: Maliki calls on the world to unite against Daash after the exodus of Christians in Mosul. He claims that the “true face” of the rebels is apparent and that there are genuine rebels, just fanatics. He has called the exodus of Christians a destruction of Iraq’s century’s history.
20th July: Maysan province in the south and east of Iraq (Shia territory) has expressed its willingness to accommodate the displaced Christians of Mosul
20th July: Iraqi President Jalal Talibani is back in Iraq
20th July: Daash launched a mortar attack on the civilian neighborhood of Al-Askari in South Kirkuk, wounding 9 women and children
20th July: Micro Civil war: An open war is starting between Daash and the Naqshabandi army in Saadia district of Diyala province. Daash had earlier targeted a meeting of Naqshabandi fighters using an IED killing three and wounding four. A former Ba’athist general, Jamal Ghanawi, was killed in the bombing. The Naqshabandi army is reportedly forming assassination/death squads to target the local Daash leadership.
A Saudi commander of Daash in Saadia, Diyala, Abu Faris Al-Aoaini, is killed in a road side bomb attack
20th July: Massoud Barzani tells Al Jazeera that the Kurds have no choice but to declare independence. The future of Iraq is too uncertain. “And his life is probably too short.”
20th July: Daash fighters steal wheat from Tikrit (500 tons) and drive it to Syria. They have also kidnapped a police officer.
20th July: Erbil police has denied that any car bombs had entered the city. Rumours had spread earlier when Facebook users had listed the make and license numbers of cars that were going to be used.
20th July: Maliki (current Prime Minister) has held a meeting with Ibrahim al-Jaafari (former Prime Minister) regarding the choosing of the future Prime Minister and government formation.
20th July: Arshad Salhi, head of the Turkoman Front, has told Kurdish news sources that his community is the most affected by the upheaval in Iraq and has blamed this on a conspiracy by unnamed politicians. He has also requested the President of Iraqi Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, to accommodate displaced members of the Turkoman Community.
20th July: Containing Blowback: Saudi Arabia is planning to counter through its Ministry of Islamic Guidance the message being preached by Daash. Friday sermons and Imams of Mosques will be required to point to the youth the error of Daash’s thinking and ways.
20th July: Khodair al- Khuzai, the Vice President of Iraqi Kurdistan, has met with Maliki to discuss security and political developments in Iraq.
20th July: The Price of Faith: US$450 is what it costs to remain a Christian in Daash administered Mosul city. The other options are conversion or exile. Meanwhile the UN has pledged to help Christians displaced by Daash.
20th July: Daash has claimed responsibility for yesterday’s bombings in Baghdad
20th July: Iran has stopped sending fuel trucks into Iraq unless and until the Iraqi Government can guarantee the safety of Iranian citizens in Iraq. As of now Iraq cannot guarantee the safety of its own citizens.
20th July: Tribal forces allied to the government in al-Dhuluiya, Diyala nab three foreign fighters/terrorists
20th July: The offices of the Sharqiya Satellite Channel in Mosul have been seized by Daash
20th July: Atta’s/Government claims for the day:
25 Daash/rebel fighters are killed in Mosul in government airstrikes
11 Daash fighters are killed in Baqouba
Related:
20th July: China and India are the largest buyers of Iranian Crude Oil. Together they buy 65% of Iranian exports
20th July: The main Shia block in Bahrain is expected to be suspended for three months
20th July: The BBC improves its headlines “Gaza suffers deadliest single day.”
Short Analysis, Iraqi Militias are now Iranian policy in Iraq:
The deputy Foreign Minister of Iran, Amir-Abdollahian, stated that “Iraq’s armed and popular forces will defend every inch of the Iraqi territory with full fervor and based on religious duty.”
The experience of fighting Islamic Jihadists through popular militias and National Guard units in Syria is going to be applied to Iraq.
On the 29th of June, Iran’s IRGC General Massoud Jazayeri told Iranian television “it is ready to provide them with our successful experiments in popular all-around defense, the same winning strategy used in Syria to put the terrorists on the defensive… This same strategy is now taking shape in Iraq – mobilizing masses of all ethnic groups. ” (http://www.jamestown.org/regions/middleeast/single/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=42602&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=675&cHash=b95d0771324a61c8f574b7d61f965aa0#.U8v5O-OSwhs)
Hopefully, the Christians of Iraq can also be used as a proxy force by Tehran to fight Daash and its allied rebels in Iraq. The Christians can defend their town and villages with the government’s support. And any crazy policies of Daash can be shot down with $4.50 bullets, instead of 450 green backs. Something similar has already happened in Syria, with Syrian Christians fighting Islamists alongside the Syrian government.
Short Analysis two:
If anyone suspects of how smart the Iranians are, please read this article:
http://defense-update.com/analysis/lebanon_war_1.htm
This excerpt is of particular interest:
American and Israeli electronic warfare experts, who visited the combat zone, have concluded that Iran had probably decided to use the Lebanon conflict as the testing ground for its military, intelligence and electronic capabilities in preparation for a future clash with the United States and Israel in a potential anti-nuclear conflict.
We all know that the United States and Israel test better and more effective military equipment in Iraq, Afghanistan, Gaza, and other conflict zones. But here the Iranians are doing the same. This may seem fascinating to you and me, but must be scary for these other two.
Further Reading:
Daash is finding appeal in East Asia
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/07/islamic-state-support-spreads-into-asia-201471392121686815.html
I do think ME countries tend to exaggerate their capabilities.
America can wipe Iran without nukes pretty damn fast. It’s a nation built on war and death. When it comes to killing it rules, and add NATO to it and then it’s unequalled. I am saying destroy Iran and not conquer it.
Israel is another story, they prefer others to do the fighting for them, or have a greater military advantage or through back handed ways. Straight up war with an equal is off limits.
About Gaza:
The Gaza Bombardment – What You’re Not Being Told
– It’s about Gas
– Kidnappers of the three boys spoke Hebrew.
– Israel is ruled by vile sub-humans.
Can someone tell me when WWIII wil be officially anounced or are we just supposed to guess?
T1
When the West finally attacks Iran, it will NOT be with any strategy that Iran can counter. Iran will be struck by massive numbers of small nuclear warheads, absolutely destroying every aspect of its military and civilian infrastructure. There will be no ground invasion until Iran effectively no longer exists as a nation.
It is this fact that has protected Iran from any attack up to the present. With Iran, “you go big or you go home”. No American military planner will sign-off on any form of attack less than that described. And politically, launching nuclear strikes against Iran is not something the West feels yet confident in doing.
There are no ‘gentlemen’s rules’ to the form of war waged by the West. The Holocaust in Gaza, where an utterly unarmed, imprisoned population is butchered using every weapon short of nuclear warheads, proves this point.
The planned scenarios that take down Iran involve the murder of more than TEN MILLION Humans within the first month. Think about that. To ‘justify’ such a scale of genocide, the West needs a nuclear false flag- and these are very very difficult to fix, because every nuclear warhead or explosion has a signature that can be traced back to the point of origin (for the nuclear materials).
Remember how the false flag of 9/11 also involved US agents sending anthrax to US politicians, pretending that the anthrax came from ‘Muslim’ ‘terrorist’. Unfortunately, within days the genetic signature of the anthrax used allowed its source to be traced back to a US military bio-weapons facility. The US false flag planners had not foreseen this aspect of forensic science.
So Iran must “attack somewhere like Israel with a nuclear warhead” just as “Putin shot down the Malaysia airliner”. The later was an easy false flag to run with, but the former is (thankfully) very, very difficult to arrange.
I caught this on CNN today:
Stephen Cohen: Putin ‘Didn’t Create’ Crisis, ‘Had No Choice but to React’
Asked about Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, Cohen said that Putin did not create the crisis and had no choice but to react. Cohen also said that next to Mikhail Gorbachev and possibly Boris Yeltsin, Putin was the least authoritarian Russian ruler in 400 years. The transcript of the interview follows:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/03/02/Princeton-Prof-Putin-Didn-t-Create-Crisis-Had-No-Choice-but-to-React
T1
Saker:
My latest post about CNN and Steve Cohen was incorrect, the interview was from a much earlier date.
However today’s show (which I cant locate) was along the same lines. I think the other guest and host were somewhat taken aback that Prof Cohen did not simply tow the Party Line regarding Russian and the current situation.
If I come across today’s broadcast I will post it.
Sorry about the error.
T1
While hell is being visited upon the Pali’s in Gaza another bit of info is being neglected. I came across other sources but none more credible than this:
Mossad chief’s chillingly prescient kidnap prophecy
Ten days ago, Tamir Pardo outlined a scenario that was spookily similar to the kidnapping of three teens missing in the West Bank since Thursday.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.598751
I’m not gonna pay a buck the read the info, it’s easily available for free elsewhere.
T1
World war 3 has been going on since atleast 2011 libyan crisis only the victims like Russia, China and India are too stupid to realise that.
The cowrd Americans and British run war through proxi rather than challenge their equal in combat.
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“20th July: The Price of Faith: US$450 is what it costs to remain a Christian in Daash administered Mosul city. The other options are conversion or exile. Meanwhile the UN has pledged to help Christians displaced by Daash.”
Funny how Israel’s proxies quickly learn from master how to exploit everything into a money making scheme.
Mindfriedo, thanks for the sitrep.
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Important:
Ukrainian paratroopers were dropped on 20th a Molodogvardeysk, between Lugansk and Krasnodon. The paratroops must be regular Ukrainian military, perhaps the best they have got.
On the 16th, Polish troops from 1sr Mazur artillery brigade were reported landing at Odessa with 12 Polish howitzers (152mm SpGH DANA). These are supposedly returning from Afghanistan and are to be transported by rail to Poland.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4c1_1405672523
A very curious timing and route of return. Perhaps these will never arrive in Poland. Will they be used to reopen the cauldron from the south-east with the paratroopers are pincer? Are the paratroops actually Ukrainian?
It is a pity that the label “Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order” or the umbrella organisation “Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation” (JRTN) is used to discredit the ostensibly mystical Sufi Muslim organisation named the Naqshbandi Sufi order. How may understand this? They could call themselves the “Chicago Bulls” and it would have as much relevance to sport. All part of the great game I guess.
“Anonymous said…,
It is a pity that the label “Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order” or the umbrella organisation “Supreme Command for Jihad and Liberation” (JRTN) is used to discredit the ostensibly mystical Sufi Muslim organisation named the Naqshbandi Sufi order. How may understand this? They could call themselves the “Chicago Bulls” and it would have as much relevance to sport. All part of the great game I guess.”
AGREED!
Salam,
Mohamed.
By the way: Did I ever tell you how grateful I am for your SITREPs? I am afraid I didn’t. So I do it now: Thanks a lot!
Your work is really important and much appreciated.
Djazakumu Llah khayran – May God reward you with good.