Iraq Report: Babil Awakening, Al Qaeda-Iran Liaison Captured

Weekley Standard ^ | 5/31/07 | Bill Roggio

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The Awakening movement, which was started in Anbar province by local tribes and Sunni insurgents that opposed al Qaeda's attempts to Talibanize Iraqi society, has now spread to all of the provinces bordering Baghdad. Over the past month, Awakening movements formed in Diyala and Salahadin, and, this week, the Babil Awakening was formed. Al Qaeda in Iraq immediately targeted the leader of the Babil Awakening, Sheikh Obeid Al-Masoud, seriously wounding him and his wife in the city of Iskandaria. Al Qaeda is working to destroy the nascent Awakening movements in the provinces, where they provide a political and ideological alternative to al Qaeda's Islamic State.

In Baghdad yesterday, Coalition and Iraqi raids were largely focused on the Mahdi Army. Also, Iraqi Special Operations Forces captured a Mahdi Army commander in the Kadamiyah district in central Baghdad yesterday. The Mahdi commander "is alleged to be responsible for providing financial, logistical, and political support for multiple insurgent groups and terrorist organizations" and is also "suspected of overseeing the training of insurgent recruits on terrorist methods including the construction and detonation of Improvised Explosive Devices and Explosively Formed Projectiles."

Two more Mahdi operatives were captured in Sadr City today. "They are believed to be members of the secret cell terrorist network known for facilitating the transport of weapons and explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, from Iran to Iraq, as well as bringing militants from Iraq to Iran for terrorist training," according to the Multinational Forces Iraq press release. Seventeen members of this network have been killed and 41 captured during numerous raids over the past three weeks.

[Jet Jaguar]

BTTT

[Parley Baer]

Good news. Looks like they hate Al Quaeda more than us.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

The surge is working. More Al QAEDA and Sadr-Madhi Army leaders have been killed or captured in the past two months that were in the previous year.

That is how you fight the enemy - search, chase, corner, destroy.

Reminds of the good old times of WW2 and Korea.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Gotta love the PSYOPS guys on this one?

[Cindy]

Thank you JetJaguar for the ping.

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http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=prewardocs

[Fred Nerks]

The Good News keeps on coming!

[irish guard]

ping

[ishabibble]

Kill Fat Mookie and the work will go quicker.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Love it!

[Marine_Uncle]

All the good news also bares a bit of caution. Now that all groups that in one way or another have resisted the US/Coalition forces and recently the Iraqi government, military, and police ; have been put on notice their days are numbered, the potential for more violence is more probable to occure.
This includes as we could surmise one hell of a lot of Iraqi as well as foreign influences such as the Iranians.
And the long term Kurdish issues yet have to be more fully addressed, where Turkey, Iraqi Arab, as well as the Iranians are involved.
I do hope that the Maliki government is reaching a point where it is capable of handling the many intricate issues without causing a mass breakdown of authority.

[TASMANIANRED]

This is good news.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks E.