Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Iraqi Accordance Front member says he will join resistance
Politics
(RFE/RL) - During a June 30 interview with Al-Jazeera satellite television, Abd al-Nasir al-Janabi, a Sunni lawmaker and member of the Iraqi Accordance Front, said he has resigned from both the front and parliament, and has decided to join the armed resistance. He stressed that the political process has become a tool of the U.S. and Iranian occupation, and called on other lawmakers to join the resistance.
"I urge those who joined the Iraqi parliament under the name of nationalism and Islam to withdraw from the Iraqi parliament and the Iraqi government, which have become tools of destruction in the hands of the U.S. and Iranian occupation in Iraq," al-Janabi said.
"The only solution in Iraq is armed resistance, which is the only way to rescue Iraq from the crisis it is facing." He also lamented that Iraq has become a battleground between U.S. and Iranian proxy forces, which has left the country in ruins. On June 29, the Iraqi Accordance Front, the largest Sunni political bloc, announced that it will withdraw all six of its members from the cabinet of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to protest the arrest warrant issued against Culture Minister As'ad al-Hashimi
Labels: Abd al-Nasir al-Janabi, Iraqi Accordance Front, Iraqi resistance
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Sunni resistance groups ask al Qaeda to stop attack on Shiites
Security
(Azzaman) - Differences between armed groups fighting the U.S. in Iraq have come to the open and the groups are reported to be resorting to force to settle disputes. In the restive Province of Diyala, a major stronghold for the Iraqi insurgency, most armed groups are said to have joined forces against al-Qaeda which is behind the majority of devastating car and suicide bombs in Iraq.
The groups are said to be unhappy with the way Qaeda is operating particularly its attacks on Muslim Shiites in Baghdad and elsewhere. The armed groups involved in fighting are Muslim Sunnis which until recently have been the only ones attacking U.S. troops. But in the past few months, several Shiite armed groups specifically formed to oppose the U.S. occupation have emerged and on the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shiites demonstrated against the U.S. presence in the country.
Many Sunni armed groups are keen to see Iraqi resistance spreading among Muslim Shiites and have requested Qaeda to halt attacks targeting Shiite civilians. U.S. and Iraqi troops are taking a wait-and-see attitude and are apparently happy to see their enemies killing each other. The Americans are busy filming the battles and Iraqi officers with access to U.S. footage and insurgent groups say scores of armed men from both sides have been killed or injured.
The groups are said to be unhappy with the way Qaeda is operating particularly its attacks on Muslim Shiites in Baghdad and elsewhere. The armed groups involved in fighting are Muslim Sunnis which until recently have been the only ones attacking U.S. troops. But in the past few months, several Shiite armed groups specifically formed to oppose the U.S. occupation have emerged and on the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shiites demonstrated against the U.S. presence in the country.
Many Sunni armed groups are keen to see Iraqi resistance spreading among Muslim Shiites and have requested Qaeda to halt attacks targeting Shiite civilians. U.S. and Iraqi troops are taking a wait-and-see attitude and are apparently happy to see their enemies killing each other. The Americans are busy filming the battles and Iraqi officers with access to U.S. footage and insurgent groups say scores of armed men from both sides have been killed or injured.
Labels: Al Qaeda, Diyala, Iraqi resistance, Shiite armed groups
