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 Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:25 pm Post subject: Stop the War-Withdraw Troops by October? |
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Instead of unconditional and immediate military withdrawal the STWC calls for
| Quote: | 'We urge Gordon Brown on behalf of millions of British voters to withdraw British troops from Iraq no later than October 2007'
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Guardian Letter 26th June 2007
Will the US-British forces actually last till October?
Why October why not now?
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\\2007-06-27\\kurd. htm
| Quote: | Government said to have lost control of Basra
By Kareem Zair
Azzaman, June 27, 2007
As U.S. troops battle to retake Baghdad and surrounding areas, the government is reported to have lost its control of Basra where almost all of the country’s oil exports originate.
The city, according to well-placed sources, is under the hegemony of militias who do not run its streets only but have imposed levies and taxes on oil output.
“It may be too late for Prime Minister Nouri al-Naliki to restore control of Basra,” one source working for Iraqi intelligence said.
The sources, who all spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, point to the growing Iranian influence in Basra and most of southern Iraq.
The loss of Basra to Shiite militias is a blow to current U.S. military operations mainly directed against Sunni rebels and elements of al-Qaeda group in the country.
The four-month long operations in which tens of thousands of U.S. marines are involved have foundered due to tough resistance from various Iraqi groups particularly those linked to al-Qaeda.
British troops in Basra are almost powerless as their previous military tactics to retake control of the city have all but backfired.
Attacks on British troops have increased significantly recently. Roadside bombs target British armored convoys and their barracks come under frequent mortar attacks.
The sources said Basra was in the midst of “huge chaos” with the political factions and their militias dividing the city into zones of influence.
Senior Iraqi officials, refusing to be named, said Maliki was concerned about latest developments in Basra and other southern cities.
The decline of government control in these areas comes as Iraqi and U.S. troops are engaged in fierce fighting with Sunni resistance and armed groups across the central part of the country.
The officials said Maliki intends to deploy two army battalions and a commando police force in the city to strengthen the provincial government there.
But according to intelligence reports it will take a much bigger force to take on the heavily armed militias in the city.
Control of border points is no longer under the control of government troops and so are the city ports through which a sizeable portion of the country’s imports comes.
The Oil Ministry’s supervision and administration of oil fields, terminals and a major refinery is only symbolic with militias in actual control of Basra’s oil industry.
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karlos
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Iraqi Official says US 'behind Baghdad hotel blast'
Press TV
Wednesday June 27, 2007
An Iraqi official has accused the United States of being behind the suicide bomb that killed at least 12 in a hotel in central Baghdad.
Muhammad al-Saberi, Iraqi envoy for talks with tribal leaders in Jordan and Syria, on Tuesday held the Bush Administration responsible for the blast at the Mansour Hotel, where a group of Sunni tribal leaders from Iraq's Anbar province had gathered to discuss ways and means of curbing ongoing violence in the country.
"Because the gathering in the hotel was supposed to be a step toward establishing national unity among Iraqi tribes, the US, through its terrorist operatives, tried to thwart the move," IRIB quoted al- Saberi as saying.
The Iraqi official said that Washington knows full well that if security and stability come into Iraq from one door, its troops have to leave from the other and have no more pretext to prolong their stay.
"That's why the White House is at odds with bringing peace into Iraq," he observed.
Al-Saberi noted the tribal leaders including al-Ani al-Obeidi, al-Alusi, al-Joburi and al-Wazani in a reaction to the terrorist act in Mansour Hotel, had pledged in a letter they would broaden talks with the Iraqi government.
According to al-Saberi, the Iraqi government plans to put an end to continued bloodletting across the war-ravaged country via talks with Sunni tribal leaders in the west to help suppress the extremist al-Qaeda-linked militants.
On Monday a man wearing a belt of explosives walked into the Mansour Hotel 's bustling lobby around noon, approached the reception desk and detonated his bomb, killing more than 12 and injuring dozens more.
Police said among the dead was Fassal al-Guood, a tribal sheikh and former governor of western Anbar province and al-Iraqiya TV journalist Rahim al-Maliki.
So for the Iraqis the penny has dropped meaning the civil war is a lie which WE are fermenting
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