This inter­view was pub­lished on islam­to­day,

The Sunni scene of the var­i­ous armed fac­tions became more vis­i­ble today, and the rela­tion­ship between these fac­tions took a dif­fer­ent turn with the out­break of armed con­flicts since the begin­ning of the year 2007, specif­i­cally between the so-called “Islamic state of Iraq” (Al-Qaeda in Iraq) and the other armed fac­tions, includ­ing the 1920 Rev­o­lu­tion Brigades and Jihad and Reform (Islah) Front.

If it is dif­fi­cult to select an accu­rate clas­si­fi­ca­tion of the “armed fac­tions” map, the approach is to divide these fac­tions into four directions:

First direc­tion: call it the “Salafi Jihad”, and rep­re­sented the so-called “Islamic state of Iraq”, and the groups that allied with such as the Ansar al-Sunnah.

Sec­ond direc­tion: called “National Salafies”, rep­re­sented by Jihad and reform Front, which was formed from the three armed groups; Islamic Army, Al-Tatiheen (con­querors) Army and the Mujahideen Army.

Third direc­tion: The “Mus­lim Broth­ers”, rep­re­sented by Hamas-Iraqز

Fourth direc­tion: “National Islamic”, rep­re­sented by 1920 Rev­o­lu­tion Brigades, and the Al-ٌٌRashideen Army.

Abu Mohammed Al-Zubaydi,Chief of the polit­i­cal bureau of the Al-Rashideen Army, liv­ing in one of Baghdad’s sub­urbs, a spe­cial­ist phar­ma­cist, rejects the clas­si­fi­ca­tion of the Iraqi resis­tance between a national Islam and inter­na­tional Islam.

Al-Zubaydi, iden­ti­fies Al-Rashideen Army as objec­tive with very clear goal:

Is a fac­tion of the resis­tance, which is work­ing to lib­er­ate Iraq, pre­serve its unity, and to destroy the Amer­i­can project with all its prod­ucts, and the estab­lish­ment of a jus­tice state which does not exceed the human rights.

Zubaidi con­firms that Al-Rashideen Army’s polit­i­cal per­spec­tives is not lim­ited to the lib­er­a­tion of Iraq from occu­pa­tion, but take into account that the con­flict is the US cul­tural and strate­gic dimen­sions; He says:

Al-Rashideen Army does not stop with its mil­i­tary appear­ances, but go deep in under­stand­ing the occu­pa­tion project, which is not aimed at Iraq alone, .. The occu­pa­tion pro­gram begins with the occu­pa­tion of this coun­try, and sequen­tially aims against Ara­bism and Islam every­where, Al-Rashideen high com­man­ders are fol­low­ing these goals and moti­va­tions of occu­pa­tion strat­egy and the role of the neo-conservatives and inter­na­tional Zionism.

In the con­text of iden­ti­fy­ing Al-Rashideen Army’s his­tory and its strength com­pared with the other armed fac­tions Zubaidi says:

Estab­lished at the first day of the occu­pa­tion, and began to col­lect weapons from the for­mer Iraqi Army mil­i­tary camps the sub­urbs of Bagh­dad, the Army announced its exis­tance at the same day when our fight­ers car­ried out an attack against a US occu­pa­tion patrol after nine days of the occu­pa­tion of Bagh­dad .., Al-Rashideen Army bat­tal­ions located in dif­fer­ent parts of Iraq, includ­ing the provinces of North and South.

Regard­ing the polit­i­cal per­spec­tive of the army and its posi­tion on many issues Zubaidi con­firms that the army rejects the ongo­ing polit­i­cal process, con­sid­er­ing it in the ser­vice of the occu­pa­tion, but he refused-at the same time, the sec­tar­ian con­flict, and the logic of blas­phemy and treachery.

When asked about the Fatwa of gen­eral Shi­ite heresy issued by some Sun­nis he say:

We believe that eval­u­at­ing the rela­tion­ship with the var­i­ous fac­tions and sects as we Iraqi soci­ety into two cat­e­gories “with or against”. The group col­lab­o­rated with the occu­pa­tion, includes all Iraqis, Arabs, Kurds and Turk­men, Mus­lims and Chris­tians, Sunni and Shiite.

In con­trast to some of the armed fac­tions that car­ried out the killing of civil­ians and inno­cent peo­ple, and jus­ti­fi­ably so-called the­ory of “stick­ing”, Al-Rashideen Army cat­e­gor­i­cally rejects the killing of civil­ians, Zubaidi says:

The posi­tion of the army adults is clear and firm on this issue, we are against the killing of inno­cent civil­ians, under any pretext.

On the other side; the army did not agree with other armed fac­tions that the so-called Iran­ian– Safavid occu­pa­tion is equal or worst than the Amer­i­can occu­pa­tion, as Zubaidi says:

There is no doubt that Iran poses a major threat, but we believe that the dan­ger is the first Amer­i­can occu­pa­tion, The pen­e­tra­tion and Iran­ian pro­lif­er­a­tion, hap­pened because of the absence of Amer­i­can occu­pa­tion and if we defeat the Amer­i­can occu­pa­tion that would sub­side the Iran­ian threat, and if we defeat the US, we will be able to defeat all those who want to harm Iraq.

Al-Rashideen Army dif­fers, too, with other armed fac­tions adopt­ing a cer­tain for­mula of the state they want after the with­drawal of occu­pa­tion from Iraq, it is — although the Islamic-oriented view that is the form of the state Iraqis agree on, which serve Iraqis reli­gion, their coun­try and the future of the com­ing generations.