U.S. Plans to Evacuate Many Embassy Workers: Baghdadi’s ISIS eclipses Zawahiri’s al-Qaeda

Monday, June 16, 2014 Iran And Its Shiite Militias Mobilize In Iraq Interview With Phillip Smyth After the collapse of the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) in northern and central Iraq the press started reporting that militias were mobilizing in Baghdad and other areas, and that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Quds Force was sending in several hundred of its members to aid the Iraqi government. The fact is militias had been shifting their fighters from Syria and carrying out mass recruiting drives in Iraq since the beginning of the year far preceding the current security crisis. To help explain the situation is Phillip Smyth from the University of Maryland’s Institute for Advanced Computer Studies’ Lab for Computational Cultural Dynamics. He also writes Hizballah Cavalcade for Jihadology. Funeral procession for Badr fighter killed in Samarra June 2014 showing the redeployment of Shiite militias from Syria to Iraq (via Phillip Smyth) 1. When did the Shiite militias first start moving back from Syria to Iraq? This was a process that actually started around the same time that Nouri al-Maliki started his offensive in Anbar around Christmas time [December 2013]. The first real evidence that they were back in Iraq started in January with Asaib Ahl Al-Haq and Badr Organization deployments throughout the country. 2. In your article “Iranian Proxies Step Up Their Role in Iraq” for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy you wrote that the militias are forming popular committees and recruiting in Iraq. Can you talk about how they are recruiting people and any idea on how many people have joined? Numbers are really hard to come by. If you just look at mainstream articles you can see that there are people lining up out the door. The thing is with the Iranian backed proxy groups that are in Iraq, they started recruiting long before Nouri al-Maliki and even the Sadrists really started any real efforts. That started in earnest around March or April 2014. What they’ve done with the popular committees, and Badr has them, Asaib Ahl Al-Haq has them, others have them, is that they have separate recruitment centers in different cities from Baghdad to throughout the south. People just go in, state their name, they need to provide enough evidence that they are not an infiltrator, and that’s it. That’s how they’ve generally been organizing it. Images of members of ISCI in SWAT and militias and Ammar Hakim after they said they would support the Defense Ministry against the insurgents (Buratha News) ISCI head Hakim has been seen on TV and on social media in fatigues and firing an AK-47 showing his support for the military during the current security crisis 3. You’ve mentioned the well known militias but lately Ammar al-Hakim of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq and Moqtada al-Sadr have issued statements about helping out the Defense Ministry and protecting the shrines, so are the larger more mainstream groups getting involved as well? Those two have problems with Maliki and with the Iranian backed groups. Sadr is no fan of Asaib Ahl al-Haq. He just did a couple trips to Iran. Some people read that to mean that Moqtada is aligned with the Iranians, but after Syria I really don’t think so. The Iranians and their proxy groups have been trying to portray Sadr as being with them, and everything that they are promoting. He’s has been very vocal in saying that these are “foreign entities.” I even saw a fatwa that came out about one of the militia groups where he said that these are foreigners. There is a definite split there. That doesn’t mean they’re not talking. It doesn’t mean they don’t see the same problem, and that’s ISIS. A common example is that the United States did ally with Joseph Stalin to crush Adolf Hitler. If you think about it along those lines there are major shrines and major areas [that are threatened by ISIS]. They [Sadr and Hakim] would have to save face by at least doing new recruitment. There’s been a progression on how this has been going. The Iranian backed groups started their recruitment first. Then Nouri al-Maliki announced one. The weird thing was there was a period right in between the Iranian backed groups’ announcement and Maliki’s announcements where Sadr came out and established new companies or brigades that were devoted to shrine defense. Now with the general recruitment [by the government going on] after Ayatollah Sistani’s announcement it means the momentum is there, and Hakim and Sadr can say they will do this, and they have to. This is not just a cynical power play. There is the existential threat of ISIS, and there’s no denying it. There’s the existential threat of the Naqshbandi coming back, the Baathists and other groups. They can’t really sit back and allow it. Ali Reza Moshajari of the IRGC might have died in Iraq in June 2014 showing their presence on the ground in the country (Hizballah Cavalcade) 4. There have been recent reports that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) sent in some forces to Iraq. Have you seen anything about Lebanese Hezbollah doing the same? Yes, but you have to know where to look. It’s not just something that’s floating out there. They know how to pitch it to comrades that are more accepting of Lebanese Hezbollah being on the ground there [in Iraq]. It’s only been pushed in a few different places. This is not something they really want out in the public. Of course Lebanese Hezbollah has Unit 3800, which was quite active during the early years of the Iraq War. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if after over a year of fighting alongside, and being advisers and commanders for numerous Iraqi Shiite units in Syria that Lebanese Hezbollah in addition to the IRGC are on the ground assisting with a lot of these different processes. It’s basic logic that they would. The only problem is that when you’re dealing with groups that operate covertly I can’t say that I’ve seen Lebanese Hezbollah on the ground in Najaf and I know that they’re there with Iraqis, because they haven’t put that up. But I don’t think there isn’t some kind of deployment going on. The numbers that were coming out like 130 IRGC in Iraq were interesting. I don’t know where this number came from, but again I think that the problem is people are not viewing this in context. They’re not viewing the current history and its decade long background. They say IRGC is just now in Iraq. IRGC has been in Iraq for decades. They had the Badr Brigade since the Iran-Iraq War. In the Badr Organization people have duel membership in IRGC. The same thing with people in Asaib Ahl al-Haq, it’s an IRGC controlled group. The big change is how this has become public. If you’re reading it in the Times of London or the Wall Street Journal where it’s been published it looks like this is a new big push, but people should have just expected this. The really interesting thing is Washington’s response to this, which is they don’t like Iran’s presence, but there’s nothing they can really do about it. I think a lot is being lost there. You’re seeing very clearly that Maliki’s rump state is coming under IRGC guidance. Don’t let me downplay the fact that the masses of Shia in Iraq are not Iranian agents. That’s something I always hear. But in a lot of powerful places IRGC is controlling certain things. Just remember the entire recruitment program in Iraq for Syria, who ran that? Who ran all the militia groups? It was IRGC, it was Lebanese Hezbollah, it was their proxies in Iraq. They were recruiting normal Shia because they had created a narrative to do that. Now in Iraq the situation is a little different. They don’t have to do narrative building, because they have ISIS attacking stuff and blowing things up all the time. It’s easier for Iran to make their position coalesce around the official Iraqi government line and around more popular pushes to go fight. We’re kind of at a point where even if Sadr said he had disagreements with the Iranians he’s not going to say to them that he doesn’t want their guns, no he doesn’t want their help. It’s the theater of the absurd on that one. The levels of control are advancing within what’s left of the Iraqi state. I don’t think anyone can really deny that. It’s clear. When you see Badr members of parliament like Qasim al-Araji putting up pictures of him with General Qasim Suleimani about a week ago. Then he has another picture of himself in combat fatigues holding an AK there’s no clearer message. Iran has a long-term game plan and I don’t think enough people respect it. It’s not that they’re just focused upon ISIS, but they have long-term goals. What are those long-term goals? For Iraq as with the region, it is to kick the United States out one way or another. Simultaneously they spread their ideology, military umbrella, and take control. This crisis is a great opportunity to further those larger goals and even with the acceptance of the U.S. while doing it because there is a shared foe. Badr MP Qasim al-Araji (right) photographed with IRGC Quds Force Commander Gen Suleimani (left) in Baghdad Jun 2014 (via Hayder al-Khoei) Immediately after that meeting MP Araji posted this photo of himself in fatigues with an AK-47 (via Phillip Smyth) 5. Can you finish with Diyala province? It seems like Diyala is really important. Militias have been deployed there. It’s right on the border with Iran. Transportation Minister Hadi Ameri of the Badr Organization just got put in charge of security there. What’s going on? Diyala has been a very interesting place. CNN actually reported that IRGC was fighting in Diyala. Now Diyala is right next to Iran, and beyond that it has been a nice recruiting center for Shia fighters heading for Syria. Not only is Badr controlling security there now, but Kataib Hezbollah has deployed there along with its popular defense brigades. I think when you see that level of Iranian proxy involvement there has to be some level of IRGC on the ground, particularly when it’s a border area. I think Diyala is another area to watch. In terms of narrative development Samara in Salahaddin is the place to watch, because the shrines are there. That was one of the initial things that was pushed, particularly on line, the legitimate defense of the shrines and then there’s the defense of the homeland. These are the two different themes that have been promoted. Militiamen handing out pictures of Ayatollah Khomeini in Baghdad June 2014 showing where their loyalties lie (via Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi) SOURCES Chulov, Martin, “Iraq faces the abyss after its military melts away,” Guardian, 6/13/14 Hadi, Ahmad, “cousin against cousin: iraqi militias in anbar bloody family ties,” Niqash, 6/5/14 Institute for the Study of War, “Overt Shi’a Militia Mobilization in Mixed Areas,” 4/17/14 Karimi, Faith and Smith-Spark, Laura, “Iran sends forces to Iraq as ISIS militants press forward, official says,” CNN, 6/13/14 Smyth, Phillip, “Iranian Proxies Step Up Their Role in Iraq,” Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 6/13/14 Sotaliraq, “Jurf al-Sakhr front forgotten war in Iraq and the suffering of new entrants of Asaib Ahl Al-Haq,” 5/30/14 Anonymous said... Really it is more than welcome your article since when the international media talk about extremist Islamist usually forget to mention the Iranian proxies in Iraq such as Asai’b Ahl al-Haq and Hezbollah brigades. They are responsible for the killings of Americans in Iraq and Lebanon and they are behind the killings before and again today of many Iraqis Sunni and Shia from Basrah to Anbar and Baghdad. Iraqi Shies killed because they worked with International charities (before and now), with Iraqi government –before), with Women and Human Rights or International companies. Above all they terribly hate Iraqi women with knowledge working independently. ISIS is asking the women to remain indoors and the same are asking Asai’b Ahl al-Haq and Hezbollah, the different is that the Iranian proxies have the blessing of Maliki and Obama administration has decided to forget who were the masterminds of the killing of scores of American before. How do you think will affect the Sunni point of view –within Diyala- of Maliki and ISF as sectarian about the decision taken for the Iraqi Supreme Court regarding the 3 elected Sunni representatives in Diyala? Ayad Allawy should have been in Baghdad since 2 days ago. Do you have any news about the coordination and steps taken among the secular and Sunni blocks with the US embassy , Maliki coalition, Sadder, Hakim and Barzani aiming to get new government in place? June 17, 2014 at 12:49 AM Joel Wing said... Last thing I heard Allawi was in London attacking Maliki. The Supreme Court just ratified the election results so now there is a timeline the parties have to follow to create a new government. Given the security crisis however the parties may ignore those deadlines and put off putting together a new ruling coalition. June 17, 2014 at 8:49 AM =========================== انزالات متتالیه لقوات النخبه العراقیه(قوات علي الاکبر) خلف خطوط الغزاه جحافل الفتح الشعبي تدخل تكريت بدون قتال والدواعش في مزابل التاريخ " ‫#‏داعش‬" يرسم خريطة لدولته الإسلامية تشمل ‫#‏الكويت‬ نشر تنظيم دولة العراق والشام الإسلامية "داعش"، خريطة لتصور الدولة الإسلامية التي يسعى لإقامتها، وبدا لافتا أن التنظيم وضع الكويت ضمن دولته المرتقبة. وفي هذا الإطار، أجرى رئيس الوزراء الكويتي اتصالا هاتفيا برئيس الوزراء العراقي، نوري ‫#‏المالكي‬، استعرض معه تطورات الأوضاع الأمنية. التفاصيل في الرابط التالي http://ara.tv/n75mn American embassy in #Baghdad to evacuate "many" of its personnel as #ISIS advances, http://t.co/bN7f6IuOwu, http://t.co/cjKOcx7Scc World Volunteers who have joined the Iraqi Army paraded in Baghdad on Sunday. Thaier Al-Sudani / Reuters By TIM ARANGO and MICHAEL R. GORDON June 15, 2014 ERBIL, Iraq — The American Embassy in Baghdad plans to evacuate a substantial number of its personnel this week in the face of a militant advance that rapidly swept from the north toward the capital, the State Department announced on Sunday. The embassy, a beige fortress on the banks of the Tigris River within the heavily secured Green Zone, where Iraqi government buildings are also situated, has the largest staff of any United States Embassy. The exact number of people being evacuated from Baghdad — the American government prefers to say they are being “relocated” — was not disclosed. But the embassy will remain open, and most of its staff will remain, according to the State Department. The United States has a staff of about 5,500 at the embassy and at two consulates in the north and south of Iraq. “Some additional U.S. government security personnel will be added to the staff in Baghdad; other staff will be temporarily relocated — both to our consulate generals in Basra and Erbil and to the Iraq Support Unit in Amman,” Jordan, Jen Psaki, the State Department spokeswoman, said in a statement. “Over all, a substantial majority of the U.S. Embassy presence in Iraq will remain in place, and the embassy will be fully equipped to carry out its national security mission,” Ms. Psaki added. An American military official said that fewer than 100 Marines and other military personnel had arrived in Baghdad to reinforce the embassy’s security. The embassy staff members who are being evacuated are leaving on charter aircraft or commercial flights. But the military has planes available if necessary, the Pentagon said. Other Americans in Iraq, particularly contractors working for companies that had been training the Iraqi military on weapons systems purchased from the United States, have already left. Last week, in quick fashion, militants seized control of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, and then moved south. But over the weekend, their advance seemed to slow. In response to the crisis, President Obama has said he is weighing a range of actions to help the Iraqi government turn back the insurgents, including airstrikes and other military aid. This year, when insurgents captured Falluja and other parts of western Anbar Province, the American government rushed guns, ammunition and Hellfire missiles to aid the Iraqis, but it has done little to stop the militants. As American forces left Iraq at the end of 2011, the State Department planned to significantly increase its diplomatic presence in the country by establishing several fortified embassy branch offices defended by private security guards. The Obama administration soon reconsidered those ambitions, chiefly because of the cost and feasibility. The consulates in Basra and Erbil remained open; another, in Kirkuk, was phased out; and a proposed outpost in Mosul was never opened. After the troops left, only a small number of military personnel remained as part of an office of security cooperation at the embassy. They oversee a weapons sales program and provide limited mentoring for Iraqi forces. Tim Arango reported from Erbil, and Michael R. Gordon from Washington. ================= About 275 US military personnel to Iraq, says Obama 17 Jun 2014 AFP / Ahmad al-Rubaye US soldiers stand at attention in Baghdad on June 1, 2010 About 275 US military personnel are being deployed to Iraq to help American personnel and protect the embassy in Baghdad, President Barack Obama said Monday in a letter to Congressional leaders. The force, which began deploying on Sunday, has been sent "for the purpose of protecting US citizens and property, if necessary, and is equipped for combat," Obama wrote. "This force will remain in Iraq until the security situation becomes such that it is no longer needed." The move comes as jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) battle Iraqi security forces for control of a strategic northern town and Washington weighs possible drone strikes against the militants. The ISIL fighters have taken control of a swath of territory north of Baghdad in a drive towards the Iraqi capital launched a week ago. The White House said in a statement that the US military personnel would help the State Department relocate some embassy staff from Baghdad to the consulates in Arbil and Basra, as well as Amman. It added that the embassy remained open, and that most personnel were to remain in place in Baghdad. The troops were entering Iraq with the consent of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government, the statement said. =================================== الظاهري: ارتد دعم العرب والمسلمين للجهاد الأفغاني خنجراً في خاصرة الأمة الإسلامية، حين استهدف تنظيم القاعدة السعودية  أمير عشائر الدليم الشيخ ماجد علي السليمان يعلن براءته من كل شخص يضع يده بيد عصابات "داعش" الإرهابية. بالفيديو.. أمير "داعشي" يرهب مسناً سورياً بالسلاح المزيد على الرابط التالي: How ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi became the world’s most powerful jihadist leader By Terrence McCoy June 11  Undated file picture released on Wednesday Jan. 29, 2014, by the official website of Iraq's Interior Ministry claiming to show Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Al-Qaida's central leadership broke with one of its most powerful branch commanders, who in defiance of its orders spread his operations from Iraq to join the fighting in Syria and fueled bitter infighting among Islamic militant factions in Syria’s civil war. (AP Photo/Iraqi Interior Ministry, File) Undated file picture released Jan. 29, 2014, by the official Web site of Iraq’s Interior Ministry claiming to show Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. (Iraqi Interior Ministry via AP) For all his power and newfound notoriety, there are only two authenticated photos of a man now called the world’s “most powerful jihadi leader.” One shows a serious man with an olive complexion and round countenance. The other, released by the Iraqi government in January, depicts an unsmiling bearded figure in a black suit. The image is cracked and blurry, as though someone had taken a picture of a picture. The murkiness of the photo of the man who calls himself Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is appropriate. Though he’s “the world’s most dangerous man” to Time magazine and the “the new bin Laden” to Le Monde, the man who orchestrated the sacking of northern Iraq’s largest city and today controls a nation-size swath of land, is a relatively unknown and enigmatic figure. Much of what is known of Baghdadi’s history is unconfirmed, while other information is disputed to such a degree that it’s nearly impossible to discern where fact meets Baghdadi’s rising myth. Several facts, however, are clear: Baghdadi leads the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. He is a shrewd strategist, a prolific fundraiser and a ruthless killer. The United States has a $10 million bounty on his head. He has thrown off the yoke of al-Qaeda command and just took his biggest prize yet in Mosul, an oil hub that sits at the vital intersection of Iraq, Turkey and Syria. And in just one year of grisly killing, he has in all likelihood surpassed even al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in international clout and prestige among Islamist militants. “The true heir to Osama bin Laden may be ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,” wrote The Washington Post’s David Ignatius. He is “more violent, more virulent, more anti-American,” a senior U.S. intelligence official told the columnist, while the cautious and uncharismatic Zawahiri “is not coping well.” In fact, Baghdadi is now recruiting fighters from other Zawahiri affiliates, including al-Qaeda’s Yemen branch and the Somalia-based al-Shabab. “For the last 10 years or more, [Zawahiri] has been holed up in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area and hasn’t really done very much more than issue a few statements and videos,” Richard Barrett, a former counterterrorism chief with the British foreign intelligence service, told Agence France-Presse last week. “Whereas Baghdadi has done an amazing amount — he has captured cities, he has mobilized huge amounts of people, he is killing ruthlessly throughout Iraq and Syria…. If you were a guy who wanted action, you would go with Baghdadi.” The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an al-Qaeda splinter group that has seized a huge chunk of northern Iraq, is led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a relatively unknown and enigmatic figure. Born a Sunni in 1971 in Samarra with the name Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai, he claims to be a direct descendant of the prophet Muhammad. According to a widely cited biography released by jihadists, “he is a man from a religious family. His brothers and uncles include preachers and professors of Arabic language, rhetoric and logic.” The biography and Arabic-language accounts claim he obtained a doctorate at Islamic University in Baghdad — which is presumably why several of his many aliases include the title “Dr.” Holding degrees in Islamic studies and history, he is believed to have been an Islamic preacher around the time of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. The chaos of those months drove the 30-something into militancy, and he formed an armed group in eastern Iraq, one that reportedly never rose out of obscurity. The opacity of his background, analysts say, suggests a broader truth of rising militant Islamists. “The mystery surrounding Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — at the level of his personality, his movements, or even his relatives, his family, and those close to him — came as a result of what happened to previous leaders, who were killed after their movements were detected,” wrote Mushreq Abbas in al-Monitor. He is the “invisible jihadist,” according to Le Monde. This undated file image posted on a militant Web site on Jan. 14, 2014, shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and Syria marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP) But the narrative solidifies in 2005, when he was captured by American forces and spent the next four years a prisoner in the Bucca Camp in southern Iraq. It was from his time there that the first known picture of Baghdadi emerged. And it’s also there, reports Al-Monitor, that he possibly met and trained with key al-Qaeda fighters. He gained enough respect that by 2010, after several leaders of the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq were killed, he assumed control of it. At that time, the power of the Islamist militancy in Iraq was at its lowest ebb, and the number of killings had plunged. The Sunni rebellion, which it had once spearheaded, was on the verge of collapse. But then Syria happened. The civil war there, which left a vacuum of authority in large tracts of the country, fueled a resurgence of the group. The upheaval gave rise to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Over the following years, as many as 12,000 militant Islamists — 3,000 of whom were from Western countries — flocked to the region to fight, according to the Soufan Group, an intelligence consultancy. But even then, Baghdadi, today respected among militants as a battlefield tactician, maintained his anonymity. It is said that no one knows where he is. And reports say that in the rare instances he meets a prisoner, he wears a mask. The rise of ISIS under his stewardship has been less about a cult of personality than what one expert told AFP signaled a “transnational ideology.” This became especially clear after Baghdadi cast off al-Qaeda’s leadership in June 2013. “I chose the command of God over the command that runs against it in the letter,” Baghdadi told al-Qaeda leader Zawahiri, who had tried to bring the rogue commander back into line. Since, the power of Baghdadi, who some say may soon establish himself as emir of a new Islamic state, has only grown. As has that of ISIS. “ISIS’s rise at the expense of Zawahiri’s movement signals that a new, more dangerous hybrid based on state development by wrecking everything in its path is emerging from the Syrian terrorist incubator,” wrote Theodore Karasik of the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis. “Ultimately, ISIS seeks to create an Islamic state from where they would launch a global holy war. Perhaps that war is now beginning as Baghdadi’s ISIS eclipses Zawahiri’s al-Qaeda.” This file image posted on a militant Web site on Jan. 7, 2014, shows a convoy of vehicles and fighters from the al-Qaeda linked Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. (AP) ==================================== هكذا ساند الموساد السعودية في "غزوة داعش" 19/06/2014 09:25 | عدد القراءات : 11910 حجم الخط: Decrease font Enlarge font هكذا ساند الموساد السعودية في "غزوة داعش" في وقت خطفت "غزوة" تنظيم الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام "داعش" الفجائية لأجزاء واسعة من العراق، أنظار العالم بأسره، أكد خبراء استراتيجيون أن ضوءاً أخضر سعودياً أُعطي للتنظيم "القاعدي" للقيام بزحفه في المناطق العراقية، عقب شحنات تسليحية هائلة تمّ تأمينها لمقاتليه قبيل الانتخابات السورية. لتصبّ هذه الغزوة - حسب الخبراء - في خانة الرد السعودي على فوز المالكي - الأسد في الانتخابات، والإنجازات الميدانية اللافتة والمتسارعة التي حققها الجيش السوري في الجبهات الاستراتيجية، التي أحرقت بالتالي كل الأوراق السعودية في المنطقة، وسط تواتر معلومات استخبارية إقليمية أشارت إلى دور كبير لجهاز "الموساد الإسرائيلي" في مساندة ضباط بالمخابرات السعودية والفرنسية دعموا لوجستياً واستخبارياً "زحف" مقاتلي "داعش" العابر لمناطق هامة في العراق، وتعاون بارز من المسؤوليْن العراقييْن الفاريْن عزت الدوري وطارق الهاشمي، وضباط عراقيين كبار تم تجنيدهم لإتمام أهداف "الغزوة"، إلا أن حدثاً أمنياً سورياً خرق المشهد العراقي مباشرة، وتمثل باستعادة الجيش السوري لمدينة كسب بالكامل، عبر عملية عسكرية لافتة ومباغتة نسفت أحلام المقاتلين المتشددين بفتح منفذ بحري على المتوسط، بموازاة معلومات أمنية أخرى أشارت إلى "سلة" مفاجآت ميدانية قادمة في الميدان السوري، كما العراقي، ستكون بمنزلة رسالة "غير متوقَّعة" متعددة الرؤوس، أحدها باتجاه الرياض وتل أبيب، عقب إنجاز تنسيق أمني سوري - عراقي عالي المستوى، بالتشاور الحثيث مع طهران. ووفق معلومات أكدها أكثر من مصدر غربي، فإن السعودية باشرت قبيل الانتخابات الرئاسية في سورية بضخّ كميات هائلة من الأسلحة لمقاتلي "داعش" في الشمال السوري، وأمّنت عبر ضباط استخباريين سعوديين وفرنسيين نقل المئات من هؤلاء إلى داخل الحدود العراقية، وحسب هذه المعلومات فإن الضوء الأخضر السعودي لقياديي "التنظيم" بالبدء بالزحف نحو المناطق العراقية التي احتلها، أُعطي لهم عقب فوز الرئيس السوري بشار الأسد ورئيس الحكومة العراقية نوري المالكي، في وقت كشف خبير عسكري "إسرائيلي" في حديث للقناة العاشرة العبرية، أن السعودية و"إسرائيل" نسّقتا "على درجة عالية" زحف مقاتلي "داعش" في العراق، وأكدت معلوماته لاحقاً صحيفة "إندبندنت" البريطانية، التي أشارت أيضاً - وفقاً لتقارير استخبارية بريطانية - إلى دور بارز للبعثي الفار عزت الدوري في "غزوة التنظيم" المتشدد، وطارق الهاشمي المتواري في قطر، كاشفة أن الدوري يقيم في بلدة "حفر الباطن" على الحدود العراقية - السعودية، بإيعاز سعودي، كما لفتت الصحيفة - نقلاً عن الكاتب روبرت فيسك - إلى أن السعودية التي أقلقها بشدة انقلاب الموازين الميدانية بشكل كبير لصالح الرئيس السوري بشار الأسد، والتقارب الجاري بين واشنطن وطهران، وما تخلله من انفتاح متبادل بين الأخيرة وسلطنة عمان والإمارات والكويت، ومؤخراً تركيا، ترجمت امتعاضها ببعث رسالة دموية متعددة الرؤوس "لمن يعنيهم الأمر" عبر "فزاعة داعش" من داخل العراق، وإيصال مقاتليه حتى الحدود الإيرانية. وربطاً بالأمر، توقّف مراقبون دوليون أمام عملية اختطاف ثلاثة مستوطنين "إسرائيليين" في هذا التوقيت اللافت بمواكبة "زحف" مقاتلي "داعش" في العراق، وما شابها من ضبابية في تبني العملية، ففي وقت سارع الأخير الى الإعلان عن مسؤوليته في اختطاف المستوطنين، اتهمت "إسرائيل" حركة "حماس" بالوقوف وراءها، في حين أعلنت كتائب "شهداء الأقصى" التابعة لفتح مسؤوليتها عن العملية، إلا أن المراقبين شكّكوا بما سموها "المسرحية الاستخبارية" التي حاكها الموساد "الإسرائيلي" بالتعاون مع الاستخبارات السعودية، ورأوا فيها رغبة "إسرائيلية" بتمرير ضربة تبدأ بقطاع غزة وتصل إلى جنوب لبنان، في ظل انشغال العالم بتداعيات "الاستعراض الداعشي" في العراق، وسط معلومات استخبارية أكدت أن المستوطنين الثلاثة أصبحوا داخل الأراضي الأردنية! نعم، لا صوت يعلو الآن على صوت قرقعة سيوف مقاتلي "داعش" العابرة للحدود العراقية، في ظل تأكيدات لمحللين استراتيجيين مفادها أن رداً مضاداً بدأ الإعداد له للانقضاض على "الزحف الداعشي"، عبر غرفة عمليات تم استحداثها تضمّ قياديين أمنيين وخبراء عسكريين من سورية والعراق وإيران وروسيا، تُرجمت أولى إشاراته باستعادة القوات العراقية لزمام الأمور سريعاً على الأرض، مترافقة مع عمليات تصفية طالت ما يسمى "والي نينوى" الشيشاني محمد ميلادوف، بعملية خاصة ونوعية، أعقبت تصفية الرجل الثاني في "داعش"؛ أبو عبد الرحمن البيلاوي، في عملية مماثلة في الموصل، وما سيليها من عمليات نوعية أخرى لن تكون مغايرة لمفاجآت الكمائن التي هزت شباك التكفيريين في سورية - وفق ما أكدت مصادر غربية متابعة - ولعل كمين "العتيبة" في الغوطة الشرقية الذي سحق أكثر من 180 مسلحاً غالبيتهم من "جبهة النصرة"، ما زال كابوساً ماثلاً في أذهان رجال الاستخبارات السعودية "والإسرائيلية" حتى الآن. ماجدة الحاج / صحيفة الثبات ===== تحية معطرة بدماء العراقيين من ابناء العراق كافة بكافة طوائفه وقومياته واديانة الى نـــــواب الشـــــــــعب الكرام الذين انتخبهم الشعب اين هم نواب الشعب اليوم اين كانوا ليقولوا كلمتهم امام الارهاب اين هم نواب الشعب الذين خانوا الشعب اين الغيرة العراقية عندما تسقط محافظة من محافظات العراق بيد الارهاب اين من يدعي حب العراق على الشعب ان يقول كلمته لكل نائب لم يحضر الجلسة اليوم هل انتم مع الارهاب ام الارهاب معكم ام انتم والارهاب وجهان لعملة واحدة تبت يد الخيانة التي تخون الشعب ولاتقول كلمة الحق قال الله تعالى ( وَإِذْ يَمْكُرُ بِكَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ لِيُثْبِتُوكَ أَوْ يَقْتُلُوكَ أَوْ يُخْرِجُوكَ وَيَمْكُرُونَ وَيَمْكُرُ اللَّهُ وَاللَّهُ خَيْرُ الْمَاكِرِينَ ) سورة الانفال كلمة الى نواب الشعب انظروا الى التاريخ جيدا فالتاريخ يسجل اعمالكم انظروا جيدا في سطور التاريخ بتمعن الشعب العراقي كلما تظافرت المحن حوله كلما ازداد عزما وقوة واباء انه شعب اعده الله لينصر الحق به على الباطل انه شعب الانبياء والائمة الاطهار سحقا لكم ايها الخونه والمتامرون وكل من باعوا انفسهم الشعب سوف يقول كلمته قريبا ويحقق النصر انشاء الله