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U.S. gives green light to allocate 24 million dollars to implement Obama’s plan for Iraq’s Sunnis
Thursday, 18 December, 2014
Shafaq News / US Department of Defense has allocated $ 24 million to support the Sunni tribes in Iraq with equipment
and weapons in order to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria “ISIS” organization.
According to the final version of the foreign operations budget emergency referred to it sometimes as the war budget, this amount will be used to fund military equipment, including light machine guns type K.47 S and Ba.ar.ki.50 , rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades, mortars, body armor and vehicles navigate.
Despite the small amount, but the move notes to the willingness of the United States to provide the Sunni tribes with quantities of weapons after the idea of the existence of the Iraqi National Guard became very acceptable in Washington, and a favorite policy of for the management of US President Barack Obama, who believes that the Sunni tribes play a major role in the destruction of ISIS and policy strategy for Iraq first of all.
According to the American definition, it is referred to these tribes on behalf of the Iraqi National Guard, which is a part of the Awakening movement has a former decisive role in US military service and the suppression of the resistance during the occupation period, it is clear that there is an American intention to activate the Awakening, which jumped to the forefront of events at lightning speed during US invasion of Iraq but faded after almost achieved its mission to enable US forces to extend its control over many of the hot areas, especially in Anbar province.
The National Defense Authorization Congressional law allows granting approval quickly on Pentagon requests regarding Iraq and processing training programs, including the training and equipping of Peshmerga , the Iraqi army forces and the Iraqi Sunni tribes, but the law did not explain how the tribes will be examined to give them weapons except those known for their loyalty to the government and the local forces, then the Congress returned to approve adjustments requires the US administration on a minimum to exclude individuals or groups associated with terrorist groups or with the government of Iran.
The exit of the former Iraqi Prime Minister , Nuri al-Maliki and the readiness of current Prime Minister , Haider al-Abadi to cooperate with the United States to encourage the US administration has helped to move forward in “Iraq is the first” policy, and there is optimism that Abadi maintains his promises and his desire to be more inclusive towards disgruntled Sunnis by allowing to train and process Sunni tribes in areas captured by ISIS which gives the best chance to beat the militants militant group, American optimism stems primarily from Abadi allowing immunity to the US forces in Iraq, a major point of contention with Maliki’s government that contributed in the failure of the US to keep a military force in the country after their withdrawal.
American views have escalated in recent warns of lack of success of the Awakening model again and that the US administration is making a big mistake by assuming that it can built tribal networks quickly, where many American officials believe that it is easy to get the support of the Sunnis after removing al-Maliki. These warnings also referred to the deaths of more than 1345 members of the Awakening in Iraq since 2009 by the Islamic state.
Some critics said that the consequences of the failure of this policy would be disastrous, as happened last summer, when the Islamic State defeated the Iraqi security forces and seized a large quantity of sophisticated weapons, which means that the failure of the current policy that could lead to the same fate.
The political and sectarian interests in Iraq constitute additional complications to this policy, as the National Guard plan is considered as a fundamental dilemma for the United States and Baghdad’s government to reconciled to maintain security at the local level and fight ISIS while avoiding unintended encouragement to fragmentation of the country along sectarian lines and formalize the rule of militias, not to mention the opposition militias affiliated to Iran categorically to this policy and that actually work outside of government control, but has a heavy weight in the decision-making and action.
American Analysts, including Frederick Harry, expert prominent in the Middle East affairs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Kenneth Pollack of the Brookings Institution noted that the Islamic State organization has carried out contradictory policies toward the Sunni tribes that are not sympathetic with it , as sometimes resorted to soft non-hostile force and sometimes used extreme violence to coerce and intimidate the tribes where the militant group destroyed, for example, in late June, Anwar al-Asi’s home, a leader of al-Abeed tribe near Kirkuk city after he refused to swear allegiance to the Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, following Asi’s announcement with another elder of the tribe named, Wasfi al-Asi to form a tribal council to fight ISIS but the group has dealt intelligently with the tribes in general they are not pursuing the tribal leaders who oppose it decisively and did not go in the campaign of beheadings, but on the contrary, ISIS has sent more than one envoy to tribal leaders to demarcate the mutual relations.
Some tribes have asked the support from Baghdad, but others resigned to the presence of ISIS for various reasons, the Sunni tribal leaders have asked in recent weeks in a series of meetings by Iraqi Prime Minister to address the problem of lack of weapons and the lack of support for them from Baghdad to confront the extremist group despite the vulnerability of many of their colleagues to the arrests and executions , The Washington Post newspaper quoted Sheikh Naim al-Qaood who is a tribal leader of Albu Nimr tribe said that the tribal leaders feel that they have been neglected and abandoned and they are demanding the Iraqi government to do something.
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Thursday, 18 December, 2014
Shafaq News / US Department of Defense has allocated $ 24 million to support the Sunni tribes in Iraq with equipment
and weapons in order to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria “ISIS” organization.
According to the final version of the foreign operations budget emergency referred to it sometimes as the war budget, this amount will be used to fund military equipment, including light machine guns type K.47 S and Ba.ar.ki.50 , rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades, mortars, body armor and vehicles navigate.
Despite the small amount, but the move notes to the willingness of the United States to provide the Sunni tribes with quantities of weapons after the idea of the existence of the Iraqi National Guard became very acceptable in Washington, and a favorite policy of for the management of US President Barack Obama, who believes that the Sunni tribes play a major role in the destruction of ISIS and policy strategy for Iraq first of all.
According to the American definition, it is referred to these tribes on behalf of the Iraqi National Guard, which is a part of the Awakening movement has a former decisive role in US military service and the suppression of the resistance during the occupation period, it is clear that there is an American intention to activate the Awakening, which jumped to the forefront of events at lightning speed during US invasion of Iraq but faded after almost achieved its mission to enable US forces to extend its control over many of the hot areas, especially in Anbar province.
The National Defense Authorization Congressional law allows granting approval quickly on Pentagon requests regarding Iraq and processing training programs, including the training and equipping of Peshmerga , the Iraqi army forces and the Iraqi Sunni tribes, but the law did not explain how the tribes will be examined to give them weapons except those known for their loyalty to the government and the local forces, then the Congress returned to approve adjustments requires the US administration on a minimum to exclude individuals or groups associated with terrorist groups or with the government of Iran.
The exit of the former Iraqi Prime Minister , Nuri al-Maliki and the readiness of current Prime Minister , Haider al-Abadi to cooperate with the United States to encourage the US administration has helped to move forward in “Iraq is the first” policy, and there is optimism that Abadi maintains his promises and his desire to be more inclusive towards disgruntled Sunnis by allowing to train and process Sunni tribes in areas captured by ISIS which gives the best chance to beat the militants militant group, American optimism stems primarily from Abadi allowing immunity to the US forces in Iraq, a major point of contention with Maliki’s government that contributed in the failure of the US to keep a military force in the country after their withdrawal.
American views have escalated in recent warns of lack of success of the Awakening model again and that the US administration is making a big mistake by assuming that it can built tribal networks quickly, where many American officials believe that it is easy to get the support of the Sunnis after removing al-Maliki. These warnings also referred to the deaths of more than 1345 members of the Awakening in Iraq since 2009 by the Islamic state.
Some critics said that the consequences of the failure of this policy would be disastrous, as happened last summer, when the Islamic State defeated the Iraqi security forces and seized a large quantity of sophisticated weapons, which means that the failure of the current policy that could lead to the same fate.
The political and sectarian interests in Iraq constitute additional complications to this policy, as the National Guard plan is considered as a fundamental dilemma for the United States and Baghdad’s government to reconciled to maintain security at the local level and fight ISIS while avoiding unintended encouragement to fragmentation of the country along sectarian lines and formalize the rule of militias, not to mention the opposition militias affiliated to Iran categorically to this policy and that actually work outside of government control, but has a heavy weight in the decision-making and action.
American Analysts, including Frederick Harry, expert prominent in the Middle East affairs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Kenneth Pollack of the Brookings Institution noted that the Islamic State organization has carried out contradictory policies toward the Sunni tribes that are not sympathetic with it , as sometimes resorted to soft non-hostile force and sometimes used extreme violence to coerce and intimidate the tribes where the militant group destroyed, for example, in late June, Anwar al-Asi’s home, a leader of al-Abeed tribe near Kirkuk city after he refused to swear allegiance to the Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, following Asi’s announcement with another elder of the tribe named, Wasfi al-Asi to form a tribal council to fight ISIS but the group has dealt intelligently with the tribes in general they are not pursuing the tribal leaders who oppose it decisively and did not go in the campaign of beheadings, but on the contrary, ISIS has sent more than one envoy to tribal leaders to demarcate the mutual relations.
Some tribes have asked the support from Baghdad, but others resigned to the presence of ISIS for various reasons, the Sunni tribal leaders have asked in recent weeks in a series of meetings by Iraqi Prime Minister to address the problem of lack of weapons and the lack of support for them from Baghdad to confront the extremist group despite the vulnerability of many of their colleagues to the arrests and executions , The Washington Post newspaper quoted Sheikh Naim al-Qaood who is a tribal leader of Albu Nimr tribe said that the tribal leaders feel that they have been neglected and abandoned and they are demanding the Iraqi government to do something.
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