Saturday August 28, 2010
Iraqi PM warns of attacks as U.S. withdraws - TV
Baghdad, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Friday his government had information al Qaeda-linked groups were planning a series of attacks across the country, state television reported.
Maliki made his comments as the U.S. military prepared to formally end its combat mission in Iraq on Aug. 31.
Iraq has been hit by a string of attacks over the past few weeks that have killed dozens and underscored the country's fragility as politicians squabble over forming a new government almost six months after a March poll produced no clear winner.
Al Iraqiya television quoted Maliki as saying that Sunni Islamist al Qaeda and members of former dictator Saddam Hussein's banned Baath party planned to stage more attacks.
"Based on the information that has been made available to us ... the criminal alliance of al Qaeda and the remains of the former regime of Baathists are planning, with a foreign backing, to stage a series of bombings and killings on selected provinces from the south to the north," Maliki said.
On Wednesday, insurgents killed 62 people in coordinated attacks on Iraqi police. A week earlier a suicide bomber blew himself up at an army recruitment centre in Baghdad, killing at least 57 people.
Overall violence in Iraq has dropped sharply in the past two years compared to the days of sectarian carnage in 2006-7, but bombings and killings remain daily occurrences.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/8/28/worldupdates/2010-08-28T061912Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-511256-1&sec=Worldupdates
Iraqi Pro-Baathist-Exiles living in Syria ~ Plot the Fall of Maliki from Damascus, Syria ... *Cleric, Harith al-Dhari, warns of Iraqi uprising ... and Al-Qaeda Loses an Iraqi Friend? Harith al-Dari, the country's most influential Sunni cleric ... and Former Iraqi interim prime minister Iyad Allawi, who has known ties to the CIA, has also condemned the warrant against Dhari. *Q&A-Iraq's Baath party furore - what's it all about?http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE6140NG.htm and Syria's Leaders ~ http://www.cfr.org/publication/9085/syrias_leaders.html and
Syria's 'Hezbollah' group training for attacks ~ http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=37597 and Iraq and Syria - Maliki's political suicide snip ~ The Syrians reasoned they could play an influential role in restoring stability to Iraq, which was a high priority on Maliki's agenda, given their excellent relations with Iraqi Sunnis and Shi'ite heavyweights like Muqtada al-Sadr. Iraqi tribes, which once formed the Sunni insurgency and which are now the backbone of the Awakening Councils, overlap extensively with their cousins in the Syrian desert
Iraqi PM warns of attacks as U.S. withdraws - TV
Baghdad, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Friday his government had information al Qaeda-linked groups were planning a series of attacks across the country, state television reported.
Maliki made his comments as the U.S. military prepared to formally end its combat mission in Iraq on Aug. 31.
Iraq has been hit by a string of attacks over the past few weeks that have killed dozens and underscored the country's fragility as politicians squabble over forming a new government almost six months after a March poll produced no clear winner.
Al Iraqiya television quoted Maliki as saying that Sunni Islamist al Qaeda and members of former dictator Saddam Hussein's banned Baath party planned to stage more attacks.
"Based on the information that has been made available to us ... the criminal alliance of al Qaeda and the remains of the former regime of Baathists are planning, with a foreign backing, to stage a series of bombings and killings on selected provinces from the south to the north," Maliki said.
On Wednesday, insurgents killed 62 people in coordinated attacks on Iraqi police. A week earlier a suicide bomber blew himself up at an army recruitment centre in Baghdad, killing at least 57 people.
Overall violence in Iraq has dropped sharply in the past two years compared to the days of sectarian carnage in 2006-7, but bombings and killings remain daily occurrences.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/8/28/worldupdates/2010-08-28T061912Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-511256-1&sec=Worldupdates
Iraqi Pro-Baathist-Exiles living in Syria ~ Plot the Fall of Maliki from Damascus, Syria ... *Cleric, Harith al-Dhari, warns of Iraqi uprising ... and Al-Qaeda Loses an Iraqi Friend? Harith al-Dari, the country's most influential Sunni cleric ... and Former Iraqi interim prime minister Iyad Allawi, who has known ties to the CIA, has also condemned the warrant against Dhari. *Q&A-Iraq's Baath party furore - what's it all about?http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE6140NG.htm and Syria's Leaders ~ http://www.cfr.org/publication/9085/syrias_leaders.html and
Syria's 'Hezbollah' group training for attacks ~ http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=37597 and Iraq and Syria - Maliki's political suicide snip ~ The Syrians reasoned they could play an influential role in restoring stability to Iraq, which was a high priority on Maliki's agenda, given their excellent relations with Iraqi Sunnis and Shi'ite heavyweights like Muqtada al-Sadr. Iraqi tribes, which once formed the Sunni insurgency and which are now the backbone of the Awakening Councils, overlap extensively with their cousins in the Syrian desert
