Thursday, October 05, 2006
Ansar al Sunnah claims repsonsibility for attacking government
Insurgency
From the several communiqués issued by Ansar al-Sunnah between Tuesday, October 3, 2006, and Wednesday, in five messages, the group claims responsibility for murders of individuals affiliated with the Iraqi government and Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, and American forces. On Tuesday, September 26, the group states that it killed the female cousin of al-Sadr, who is also the sister of an Iraqi Parliament member, Liqa’a al-Yasin, who is affiliated with Sadr’s party; and on Monday, October 2, Ansar al-Sunnah killed an employee of the Ministry of Finance in Kirkuk. That same day, the district director of al-Tuz, north of Baghdad, was also killed along with a companion by the group’s Mujahideen.
Yesterday, Ansar al-Sunnah claims to have killed all of the American soldiers within a Humvee by detonating an improvised explosive device (IED) as it traveled within a convoy along the road of Kirkuk-Tikrit, in al-Rashad. The previous day, an American barracks, which was a house American forced purportedly took by force in al-Tuz, was bombed with rockets.
Yesterday, Ansar al-Sunnah claims to have killed all of the American soldiers within a Humvee by detonating an improvised explosive device (IED) as it traveled within a convoy along the road of Kirkuk-Tikrit, in al-Rashad. The previous day, an American barracks, which was a house American forced purportedly took by force in al-Tuz, was bombed with rockets.
COMMENT: Ansar al-Sunnah (Followers of the Tradition) is an Iraqi Jihadist group, dedicated to the establishment of an Islamic state based on Shari’ah in Iraq, which they aim to achieve by the defeat of coalition forces and foreign occupation. They believe that jihad in Iraq has become obligatory for Muslims. The group’s membership is varied, and is comprised of operatives from the Kurdish terrorist organization Ansar al-Islam, foreign al-Qaeda operatives, and Iraqi Sunnis. Targets have included coalition military personnel, members of the Iraqi National Guard, new Iraqi governmental institutions, and Kurdish political establishments, which the group sees as puppet regimes of the American occupation. COMMENT ENDS.
