Ansar Al Islam statement on the Kurds and the Islamic Party alliance

One of the points men­tioned in Michael Rubin’s arti­cle was the rela­tion between the Kur­dish war­lords and Ansar Al Sunna [for some unknown rea­son the changed their name to Ansar Al Islam few days ago].

Read it under “Ratio­nal­iz­ing Kur­dish Behavior”:

At the begin­ning of the Iraqi insur­gency in April 2004, Iraqi Kur­dis­tan became a tran­sit point for Ansar al-Sunna: its mem­bers entered Iraqi Kur­dis­tan from Iran and received safe pas­sage to Mosul in exchange for an agree­ment not to con­duct oper­a­tions in the three north­ern governorates—and per­haps pay­ment as well.

True or not but as far as I know the group is very active in Mosul, but coin­ci­dently Ansar Al Islam released a state­ment today reveal­ing the real agree­ment between Kur­dish par­ties and the Islamic Party led by Al Hashimi.

[images of the state­ment 1, 2].

The agree­ment between Al Hashimi in one side and Barzani, Jalal [Tal­a­bani] on the other side is the following:

1. Al Hashimi as rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Sunni Arabs to give Kirkuk, two-thirds of Mosul, and the east­ern province of Diyala to the Kur­dish par­ties, and rec­og­nizes that these areas are under the influ­ence and pres­ence of the Kur­dish parties.

2. Full and com­plete coop­er­a­tion between the Islamic Party and the sec­u­lar Kur­dish par­ties to elim­i­nate jihad in Mosul, Kirkuk, Salah al-Din and Diyala.

To put the first point in prac­tice, the Kur­dish par­ties start trans­fer mil­i­tary units to areas which they do not have a pres­ence there like Diyala, and inten­si­fied their pres­ence in areas under their influence.

For the sec­ond point the Islamic Party acti­vates Awak­en­ing coun­cils to elim­i­nate Al-Qaeda, but the fact of the mat­ter is; the dec­la­ra­tion of war on the jihad and the mujahideen.

How­ever, this con­spir­acy plan came after an indi­ca­tion from the White House to change the polit­i­cal equa­tion of the Iraqi sit­u­a­tion, for these reasons:

1. Shi­ites revolt against their mas­ters and turned against their agree­ment with the Amer­i­can allies after the emer­gence of new pub­lic Iraq – Iran alliance calls to join the Iran­ian state.

2. Switch the roles to improve the Amer­i­can image and turn the page of the suf­fer­ing, alien­ation and mar­gin­al­iza­tion the Sun­nis and asso­ciate these acts with the Iraqi Shi­ite government.

3. Com­pos­ing a new front of the Kur­dish par­ties and the Islamic Party as Sun­nis rep­re­sen­ta­tives to pres­sure the Shi­ites and the Iran­ian government.