This is yesterday’s interview on Aljazeera with Ibrahim Al-Shamri head of Islamic Army [I uploaded to on Google].
The most interesting thing about the interview is the interview itself because this is relatively new one [about a week ago] and it came after [media, announcements and Fatwas] truce was declared more than a month ago between the so called Islamic State of Iraq and Iraqi resistance factions such Hamas-Iraq and “Jihad and Reform”.
This is partial translation of the head points of this interview:
Q: What do you think about Petraeus-Crocker report? They said there is security development in Iraq.
A: There is nothing new in their reports, these reports are meant to postpone the American defeat to the next American president who is probably will be a democrat.
The security development is not because of the Americans but because of the Iraqi tribes, after Al-Qaeda announced itself as a state in Anbar and started targeting anybody against them, Iraqi tribes revolted against Al-Qaeda practices and the Americans made use of the situation for their own benefit and said we initialized these tribes.
Q: But operations against the Americans are much less now.
A: No it isn’t, it is about 50 operation per month for us only and other factions but the media is not reporting these operations any more, and this is their strategy. [most say that Islamic Army reported more than 50 operations today]
…..A: Most of the time US military is cooperating with Iran-supported militias, the so called Iraq Army calls the Americans claiming that there are terrorists in one the neighborhoods, the Americans raid the area seizing all the weapons from the residents, after they withdraw, the Iran-supported militias takeover the area.
Q: Is the problem in Iraq a Shiite vs Sunnis problem?
A: This problem was created by Iran, Iraqi society is Sunnis and Shiites, there is no different and this is a social reality, there were about 65% Shiites in Baath Party.
Q: What do you think about Al-Qaeda situation right now in Iraq?
A: When they announced their State in 2006, things are changed, we don’t know what their agenda is, there is a mysterious agenda and they don’t want to announce it.
Right now they lost their social incubation ground.
Q: But before you cooperated with Al-Qaeda
A: Before we worked with them because they were Mujahdeen wanted to defeat the Americans, after they announced their state we stopped the cooperation.
Q: some Iraqi tribes worked with Americans against Al-Qaeda, do you think that this is going to escalates and become against the Iraqi resistance and the Islamic Army?
A: Islamic Army is part of these tribes and the sons of these tribes
Q: If the Americans withdraw, Iran said they can fill the vacuum, are you ready for Iran’s bigger role in Iraq?
A: In our program we said Iraq suffer from two occupations, the most evil occupation is the Iranian occupation, we will continue our fight until we liberate Iraq from all occupations.
Very interesting report on Al-Hayat with Sheikh Ali Al-Hatem, a member of Anbar Awakening Council saying:
American forces are preventing us from fully eliminate Al-Qaeda from the outskirts of Anbar province, the Awaking Council already requested to clean the area from Al-Qaeda in their strongholds around Anbar was disapproved by Americans.
This means that there are foreign countries supporting Al-Qaeda and provide them with the potentials to suit their terrorist activities.
On same link above, there is a story about a new Reform [Awakening] Council was established in Abu-Ghraib by Sheikh Thamer al-Tamimi.
What you don’t know about the Awakening Council(s)
Starting an Awakening Councils is a booming business in Iraq specially if you get Amrs and money from the Americans, but there is something you should know about the leaders of these new Awakening “Supermarkets”.
Most if not all the leaders are extremely benefited from Saddam government, take Abu-Risha for example: I mean he didn’t name his 12 years old son Saddam for nothing?
Fawaz Al-Jarba head of the Awakening Council in Musol, a former military officer sent to jail after an argument with Uday [Saddam’s son] and Saddam personally ordered his release.
Yes, Ladybird,
As I mentioned in my previous comment there are TWO (to mention the most prominent ones) Baaths, another (the worldly) bought by the U.S. and another (the jihadi) not collaborating (do note our recent reposting from today).
Which one you guess was de-baathificated ;)
Our Baath report is nearly complete, but we’ll hold it back for some time until the time is ripe and let you know…
You’re very good reporter, LadyBird
Editor Louhi
If it is true that Abu Risha named one of his sons after Saddam Hussein, it is all the more lamentable that he should have strayed from the right path, the path of the people and the nation, as the martyred President, the Guardian Martyr of Iraq, would have put it.
Wise up re-Al Q’aida.
It’s a US proxy.We are talking about a heavily penetrated arm of US imperialism in the Middle East and Central Asia.Al Q’aida is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.The Brotherhood was created by the British,especially those in the elite who were freemasons,in the eighteenth century to undermine authentic Islam.
When the British encouraged the US to look to fundamentalist allies in order to inflict a final defeat of the Soviets they were passing their tried and tested means of domination to their successors.Ever since Western penetration of the Middle East began imperialists have used perverted versions of Islam such as Salafiism and Wahabism(which paradoxically claim to be the purest forms)to help legitimise their puppet leaders across the region.
One after another popular secular progressive leaders in the region have been removed by such means.Nasser,Mossadegh,Bhutto even the Shah and his modernising Peoples Revolution were all swiftly replaced by hardline Islamists backed by Western governments intent on imposing “limits to growth” on the region.
Al Q’aida in Iraq is likely thoroughly penetrated by Western intelligence.Its fighters little aware of their leaders willingness to do the bidding of their globalist sponsors.
No wonder the US can’t find Bin Laden(considering the CIA built his cave for him it should have been easy!) and are happy to see the Sunni tribes in Anbar chasing shadows for them.
The US strategy might look like a catalogue of blunders but as envisaged by arch globalist strategist Brezinski their goal is to break up the Middle East through the creation of a global zone of percolating violence or “Arc of Crisis”.Thus the destabilisation and emasculation of the authority of Arab,Iranian and Central Asian republics (often by means of the drug traffic)become the means by which the US dominates the Eurasian landmass.
Al Qaida operatives financed by BCCI,the US and the Saudis are a proxy army that can carry out atrocities like 9/11 to kickstart the current globalist thrust for full spectrum dominance but they are not the real enemy in Iraq or anywhere else.
That dubious distinction is reserved for the US and their allies who would condemn future generations in the region to a life of permanent covert operations and war to profit their corporate elites.
Your translation of the Shammari interview on al-Jazeera is not accurate. I don’t mean that you mistranslated the words. I think in many places, you did a very good job of translation the words that Shammari said.
In several places, especially where you were trying to make a point, you did not translate the words. You made them up. That is not journalism. That is not fair. You should not make up your own words for other people.
Shammari NEVER says “Before we worked with them because they were Mujahdeen wanted to defeat the Americans, after they announced their state we stopped the cooperation.”
He says things that are like that, he says equivalent things, but he never says that and he definitely never says it in one sentence.
You need to be more accurate.
The video was rejected by Google but I am sure of what he said, and especially this part you mentioned I translated it literally.
We back up LadyBird: Shammari’s view in another translation:
http://theunitedstatesofmonsters.blogspot.com/2007/09/top-news-ibrahim-shammari-jihad-and.html
“What happened in Anbar is the al-Qaeda Organization turned itself into a state, and terrorized anyone who had a different opinion, and this caused great unhappiness among the tribes and the factions who turned against it.
Then the US intervened and tried to exploit the differences, spreading money around and trying to buy support, but the troops they sent didn’t accomplish anything.
On al-Qaeda, Shammari took a rather calmer tone than in past IAI statements (forum discussions had suggested that he was going to be far more aggressive, so it’s interesting that he wasn’t) [Well, nothing too new there: Shammari told some time ago that Jihad and Reform Front has struck a deal with al-Qaida to cease the hostilities, NDHF eds.]
He acknowledged that the IAI had worked with al-Qaeda in the past — back then all the factions cooperated against the occupation, he said.
But then al-Qaeda changed, he said, and began pursuing a private secret agenda which nobody could understand.”
What Shammari says is not unique comment from him (for these go to our newsdesk http://theunitedstatesofmonsters.blogspot.com and search articles with “Shammari”).
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