WORLDAL QAEDA FLAG HOISTED AFTER 25 IRAQI POLICE KILLED IN SHOOTING SPREEPosted on March 5, 2012 at 8:35pm
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/al-qaeda-flag-hoisted-after-25-iraqi-police-killed-in-shooting-spree/
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/25-iraqi-police-killed-1373123.html
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Tiffany Gabbay
BAGHDAD (The Blaze/AP) — Assailants waving the battle flag of al-Qaida gunned down 25 policemen Monday in a brazen and well-orchestrated challenge to government control over a strategic town fraught with Iraq war symbolism.
The attack replicated tactics used by Sunni insurgents during the war and appeared aimed at reasserting al-Qaida’s grip now that the Iraqis can no longer rely on American help.
The attackers drove through the town of Haditha claiming to be government officials and methodically executed guards and commanders. After half an hour they escaped into the desert, leaving a terrified populace demanding protection. Local authorities imposed a curfew and deployed troops.
Mohammed Owda al-Kubaisi, a relative of one of the slain policemen, spoke of his four children, “now orphans because their father was assassinated by the cold blood of insurgency while our government keeps watching and denouncing.”
The choice of target was significant in several ways.
Haditha is just 65 miles (105 kilometers) from the border with Syria, where rebels fighting the regime are allegedly gaining recruits from Iraq. During the Iraq war the town of 85,000 was a critical pawn in the battle, and was overrun and held by al-Qaida insurgents for months until U.S. forces ousted them. It was also the home of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, as well as the scene of a U.S. massacre of civilians.
Iraqi officials described Monday’s attack as a systematic plot to kill policemen. The attackers came at 2 a.m. in cars painted as Iraqi Interior Ministry vehicles and brandished false arrest warrants for city police officials. At the first checkpoint they confiscated cell phones and shot nine guards, said Mohammed Fathi, spokesman for the governor of Iraq’s western Anbar province, where Haditha is located.
The convoy then stopped at the homes of two Haditha police commanders, including the colonel who served as the city’s SWAT team leader. They were killed less than a quarter of a mile (400 meters) away, Fathi said.
He said the attackers had false arrest warrants for 15 police officials. At a checkpoint near the main market a gun battle broke out, with the gang raising the al-Qaida flag, according to a police lieutenant in Haditha who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
Six policemen were killed in that skirmish, and another eight were killed as security forces chased the gang
through the city, Fathi said.
The police lieutenant said most of the gang escaped north, but one of the insurgents’ cars was shot up and found to contain an al-Qaida flag, black with a Quranic inscription, and al-Qaida propaganda. Fathi said at least one of the insurgents was killed. Local police said three were killed.
The attack exposed the vulnerability of the Iraqi public who had already lost tens of thousands of lives and now, with the Americans gone, faces a fresh wave of bombings and assassinations with only a reconstituted and relatively untested Iraqi security force for protection.
Haditha people have little faith in the protections promised by the government in Baghdad, 220 kilometers (140 miles) to the southeast.
Mohammed Hussein said his cousin, one of Monday’s victims, joined the police force three years ago to serve his country and to feed his family. “We demand the government launch an immediate investigation,” he said. “This is very painful.”
“We consider this attack as a serious security breach and we believe that al-Qaida or groups linked to it are behind this,” Fathi said. The Haditha lieutenant described Monday’s killing spree as “the first bold attack” on the city in years.
Attacks by al-Qaida affiliates in Iraq as well as Yemen show a resilience that has survived the weakening of the central leadership by U.S. drone attacks on its Pakistan bases and the deaths of Osama bin Laden and other key figures.
Al-Qaida in Iraq reached the height of its strength during the 2005-2007 insurgency against U.S. troops. The Iraqi wing of the terror network still launches deadly attacks every few weeks, seeking to undermine the government and local security forces.
In Africa, terror groups affiliated with al-Qaida have managed to pull off devastating bombings from Nigeria to Kenya and Somalia over the last year – most of them targeting local populations and security forces.
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Liberals are great for getting people killed.
The big question is, what are we to do now? If we do nothing Iraq will fall under the control of al-Qaida and eventually be another terrorist state. Once we have gone from Afgahnistan it will revert to complete control of al-Qaida. The entire middle east will soon be under the control of Islamic radical extremists and will produce terrorists at a rate never before seen. Our federal government is at fault for thinking we could "help" the M.E. to become more democratic or did this administration actually intend on stirring in all these countries with the intent of helping the muslim brotherhood gain complete control. I have to wonder if that wasn't the goal of the so called Arab Spring that our president helped to promote. Eventually we will be forced to either obliterate some of these countries or fall to the Islamist and sharia law. What other outcome can we expect from any of this?
This is because of our government policy to wage “Limited Warfare” micromanaged from the white house. We have been doing this since Eisenhower, following orders from the White House, stopped Patton on his way through Germany to allow the Russians to take credit for capturing Berlin.. From then on every action, except dropping the bombs on Japan, ...has been stopped before total victory had been achieved. Some of us who pay attention to History remember how that turned out for half of Europe.
We came close during the first Gulf War but Bush and the turncoat Powell again stopped short refusing to achieve a Military victory.
There is only one way to wage war and that is Total War. In a country like ours with politicians and diplomats making the call these results are a foregone conclusion.
Unfortunately there is no fix for this because our Constitution demands civilian control over the Military, and that is a whole other topic for discussion.
A few years back, I noticed the Army Recruiting Ads. spoke of money for college, ( a mercenary idea), and Nothing about Patriotism; there was an alluding to the Few and the Brave etc., but mention of Allegiance to Country disappeared from the wording of such ads. And now right in step with that - a President who has No Allegiance to America. So are BHO and Hilary Muslim Mercenaries. Common sense would indicate that we should predicate all our future actions on just that.
Twana:
Yes, heart breaking story! I agree Obama & Hillary with congress has to be accoutable for this. JMHO.
Psalm 25:5 "Lead me in thy truth and Teach me; For tho art the God of my salvation; on thee I wait all of the day."
Wanted to share this with allgo to link read special prayer for our Country
http://www.bible-knowledge.com/special-prayer-to-the-lord-for-our-n...
In JESUS name AMEN
GOD BLESS ALL and our TROOPS
Oh my God, time for you to relieve we weary patriots and lend us a hand. Our soldiers need you, our children need you. Our country, this earth has fallen to evil. We pray and we fight but the wound continues to fester. Please Lord, your guiding hand we request, for without it we will fail.
Please, pray for my nephew. He's being sent to Gasni, Afghanistan in 6 days. His mother, father and wife are beyond sanity at this point. The entire family needs prayers of strength as well as prayers for my nephew Danny to come home safe. He's being sent to do a job he was not trained for and when I saw him Saturday on his last visit home, I could tell he was not comfortable with his new orders but held up to keep his mom from falling apart. This is not the time to send fresh boys and girls over there. They need to all come home NOW.
Marianne
Remember your nephew is in a team. Maybe no one in his squad has been trained for this particle mission. They are trained to adapt. Adapt they will. My prayers go out to your nephew and his whole deployment unit. Even Obama can not mess up unit Cohesiveness!
John: Im agree, unit cohesiveness is always the big advantage in these situations. And to Marianne - Your nephew will be in Our Prayers. I also have a different thought regarding cohesiveness and that is the V.F.W. is soliciting support from us veterans out here on several issues. I say we need to implore them that they have a meeting of the minds with the folks at U.S.P.U. to become more enlightened to the fact that the V.F.W. represents the Veterans and not the 'power players" in the administration. They are requesting things of us out here: It's time they earned it. http://www.vfw.org/
Thank you Gringo.
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