TIMELINE-Invasion, surge and withdrawal; U.S. forces in Iraq

Al-Maliki and Allawi serve US interests!
Adnan Darwash, Iraq Occupation Times

Al-Maliki and Allawi entered Baghdad on American tanks in 2003.
While Prime Minister, Al-Maliki signed the security agreement with the US while fighting and killing the Shiite followers of Al-Sadr in 2009. Similarly, Dr Allawi massacred people in Fallujah while being the interim-Iraqi Prime minister in 2004. By his admission, Dr Allawi has worked for British MI-6, American CIA and Saudi intelligence Services. Neither Al-Maliki nor Allawi works for the interests of Iraq. They have made enough money and will eventually leave Iraq with their American masters.


Unfortunately, violence is the only language the USraelis will listen too in order to end a military occupations. Germany, South Korea and Japan are still being occupied by US forces despite over 50 years since the end of respective wars.

In the West Bank, the Israelis are defying UN resolutions and remain occupying large parts of former Palestine. That is because there is no effective armed resistance that can drive them away. To the opposite, the Americans were forced on leaving Vietnam clinging to helicopters while under fire from the Vietcong. Similarly, the Palestinians in Gaza made it too costly for the Israeli IDF and to the Jewish settlers before deciding on packing up and leaving. Unaware of these facts, the Americans want to remain in Iraq as long as they have been occupying Germany, South Korea or Japan. But Iraqis are not Germans or Japanese. They will fight tooth and nail until the last uncivilised American cowboy and the last criminal mercenary packs up and leave.

Obama's talks of withdrawing US combat troops proved to be a lie as the American soldiers are still fighting in a number of areas in Iraq albeit in collaboration with Iraqi security forces allied to them. The Iraqi people and the American administration are testing each other. The Americans are hoping that the Iraqis will be fooled and buy their ploy of leaving, while the Iraqis are keeping their best and most bloody fight if the Americans don’t pack up and leave completely as promised; along with their mercenaries, stooges, agents, dirty work squads and intelligence service officers.

Americans are leaving but no Iraqi is impressed!

On August 19, 2010 the ‘last’ American combat unit sneaked under the cover of darkness out of Iraq into Kuwait. The soldiers were happy to be out of the Iraqi hell where everyone was considered as dangerous that must be shot if he/she came too close for comfort. Most American commanders knew that the war on Iraq was illegal as it was neither launched in self defense nor authorized by the UN Security Council; which means they may be called to testify about atrocities committed in any future war crimes tribunals. During August where the temperature soars to 51 degrees Celsius and with chronic shortages in electricity and water most of the time, coupled with high food prices, and bloody violence, the last thing on the Iraqis’ mind was to care about how many American savages have left the country or remained to continue their mission of destroying Iraq and the killing of its people on behalf of Israel. Some Iraqis feel very sorry that these have escaped and were allowed to leave alive and not to join the 4441 Americans who died or the 35000 who were disfigured or disabled for life. Furthermore, Iraq is still without a government as those corrupt Iraqis who were living on foreign intelligence donations, the likes of Dr Allawi, Dr Al-Chalabi, Al-Talibani, Al-Hashemi, Al-Maliki and Al-Barzani are still quarrelling about who should be Iraq next Prime minister, some five months after the parliamentary elections of March 7, 2010; into which all US-selected parties have lost. As an example Dr Allawi, Al-Maliki and the Kurdish parties have won 28%, 27.38% and 17.5% of the votes respectively.
The Saudis and the Americans want a major role for their agent Dr Allawi, who served as Iraq interim prime minister and who supervised the massacres in Fallujah in 2004 with the American help.


As a former Saddam right hand man in charge of Hanin secret organisation, Dr Allawi is strongly supported by pro-American elements of the Baathist party with a Sunni Majority. And because of Al-Maliki massacres against Al-Sadar Shiite followers in Kerbala, Baghdad and Basrah, in collaboration with the American forces, the Sadr movement flatly rejects Al-Maliki for a second term. To add insult to injury, the pro-American Kurdish minority with 17.5% of the vote wants a lion share of the Iraqi government and the country resources.

It is easy to compare Iraq current situation to a delayed gestation where the new born will be too big for a natural delivery and requires a Cesarean section. The new Iraqi government will be born headed by criminals and with tons of problems that neither the Americans nor Iraqi Neighbors interference can save them from the rage of the Iraqis.

The crimes committed in Iraq will haunt them!


The Western World have to admit that the Iraqi/PAKAFG resistance is stronger now than ever largely due to the crimes of the US savages and their mercenaries and because of the corrupt Iraqis collected by the CIA and sent on US tanks to rule the country. It would have been much better if the Americans have taken along all their stooges who betrayed Iraq as they will be massacred in due course.


Note: After seven a half year of US heavy military presence no American soldier can sit down in a cafe and enjoy a drink as the Iraqis will fill him with lead. Iraqis have a long memory and revenge is a second religion to them.


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The Shiite of Iraq consitute 60% of the population and 90% of the Arabs. There are Shiite Kurds and Turkomen too. In a Western-style free democracy the Shiites should be easily able to form a government. But their role was reduced to 30% by Paul Bremer. As an example: the presidency is made of of a Sunni Kurd (Talibani) and two vice presidents; one Arab Shiite (Dr Adil Abdul Mehdi) and a Sunni Arab (Tarek Al-Hashemi). In other words the sunnis have 60% of the power. Similarly the Prime Minister, a Shiite Al-Maliki has two vice premiers one sunni Arab and another a Sunni Kurd.

The Kurds with 17% of the population have the presidency, one vice premier, the foreign ministry, minister of water resources and commander in Chief of the armed forces. So the Kurdish minority is taking a lion share with USraeli support. Despite all this, the Sunni Saudis were unhappy with Al-Maliki and want Dr Allawi.

The Americans want the security be handled by Dr Allawi since he has been running an Iraqi version of the CIA and hope to take over the government by force, someday.
The above facts are the main cause of instability in the country. Allawi, Al-Maliki and Al-Sadr don't want the Kurdish minority to control the country, but can't say it openly in order not to upset the USraelis.
In this regard, Al-Sadr movement is the only political force that calls for the total liberation of Iraq from the boots of foreign soldiers and is in total disagreement with Al-Maliki.

Adnan Darwash, Iraq Occupation Times


19 Aug 2010 09:37:39 GMT
Source: Reuters
Aug 19 (Reuters) - The United States is on track to draw down its forces in Iraq to 50,000 by Aug. 31, but there are doubts President Barack Obama can fulfil his pledge to withdraw all U.S. troops by the end of 2011.

The 50,000 remaining will train Iraqi armed forces and police units.

Here is a timeline on U.S. forces in Iraq since 2003:

March 20, 2003 - U.S.-led forces invade Iraq from Kuwait to oust Saddam Hussein.

-- About 125,000 U.S. and British soldiers and Marines are in Iraq. By the end of April, U.S. says it will add 100,000 more soldiers to the U.S.-led invasion force.

April 9 - U.S. troops take Baghdad, Saddam disappears.

May 1 - President George W. Bush declares hostilities over.

-- Between March 20 and May 1, 138 U.S. troops are killed.

Dec. 13 - U.S. troops capture Saddam near Tikrit.

Feb. 22, 2006 - Bombing of Shi'ite shrine in Samarra sparks widespread sectarian slaughter, raising fears of civil war.

Feb. 14, 2007 - Maliki launches U.S.-backed crackdown in Baghdad aimed at pulling Iraq back from brink of civil war.

-- Five U.S. combat brigades plus supporting troops, or some 30,000 soldiers, are sent to Iraq between February and mid-June 2007. Besides reducing violence, Washington wanted to create "breathing space" for Iraqi leaders to make progress on laws seen as critical to fostering national reconciliation.

June 15 - U.S. military says it has completed its troop buildup, or "surge", to 160,000 soldiers.

-- From April to June 2007, 331 U.S. soldiers are killed, the deadliest quarter of the war for the U.S. military.

Sept. 10 - U.S. commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, recommends cutting troops by more than 20,000 by mid-2008.

July 22, 2008 - The U.S. military says the last of five extra combat brigades sent to Iraq in 2007 have withdrawn, leaving just under 147,000 U.S. troops in Iraq.

Nov. 17, 2008 - Iraq and the United States sign an accord requiring Washington to withdraw its forces by the end of 2011. The pact gives the government authority over the U.S. mission for the first time, replacing a U.N. Security Council mandate. Parliament approves pact after negotiations 10 days later.

Jan. 1, 2009 - U.S.-Iraq security pact comes into force, placing 140,000 U.S. troops in Iraq under Iraqi authority.

Feb. 27 - New U.S. President Barack Obama announces plan to end U.S. combat operations in Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010, but says will leave up to 50,000 troops to train Iraqi forces.

June 30 - All U.S. combat units withdraw from Iraq's urban centres and redeploy to bases outside.

June, 4 2010 - U.S. military says there are 88,000 troops in Iraq.

Aug 18 - U.S. troop strength in Iraq is 56,000, a senior Obama administration official says.

-- The military says that there have been 4,419 U.S. military deaths since the invasion in 2003.