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Lack of money forced the popular crowd Volunteers to return to their homes
At the invitation of the Supreme religious authority, many have volunteered to help save Iraq from the evils of regulation Daash. Abu Murtada al-Musawi -mn city of Basra among the thousands of volunteers who have answered the call, but that after three months he spent on the front lines of the fight returned to his home with a number of his friends because they have run out of food. Says, "Sometimes the money we do not have to buy a card for mobile communication Bauaúlna, everyone feels as if the government has outta".
Today urges the Shiite clerical establishment in Iraq loyal to donate food, money and supplies, and hopes to avoid a repeat of what happened during the summer from the collapse of the Iraqi army's morale in the face of progress Daash who seized the second largest city in the country and trying to go south to the capital.
After the June attack snap across northern Iraq Shortly, told tens of thousands of Shiites call top cleric Ali al-Sistani carry weapons, came a lot of volunteers from more areas of the country's poorest and who were barely cover the expenses of their families. And entrusted them with the task of assisting in stopping progress extremists Daash toward Baghdad, lifting the siege on the city of Amerli in August and then expel extremists from the rock cliff south of the capital.
Musawi was with a group of his peers in the Latifiyah area - 30 km south of Baghdad - the duty of preventing Daash from entering the Sunni areas In the so-called Ring of Baghdad. But over the past two months, shrinking the number of men in the unit, which belongs to it Moussawi, where he returned nearly a thousand fighters to their homes because they face economic difficulties, he said.
In Harthiya district of Baghdad, a representative of Sistani's office urged recently his followers to donate food and money fighters popular crowd, warning that many of them had left fighting for this reason. He said that instead of spending money on meals and luxury food in recent religious occasion, the Shiites donate to the fighters on the battlefront. Since then began to donate money, clothing and food is flowing at the local mosque and the charity office.
said Issam Abbas that he began with other traders in Basra send four loads of food and water to the front lines in each month as a contribution to them in the war on Daash group, where he says " We can not let our business, so we consider the monthly our donations as a holy war against the terrorists. "
In the capital's Sadr City, the wealthy Shiite donation for the purchase of arms and ammunition gear in order to send them to the fighters what caused the rise in the price per Alatalaqh from 40 cents to two dollars, while increased the price of the gun AK 47 to $ 800 from $ 350 a few months ago.
participated Hassan Saleh - the owner of a coffee shop in Sadr City - in the fight against Daash north of Baghdad during the month of September, however, he and his fighters never receive their any financial support from the The government had relied entirely on donations and their own to meet their daily needs, what was it, but he returned to his home with his family interesting, to say "the government's negligence caused us a sense of bitterness between the volunteer fighters who risk their lives in order to protect the country. We have not received any salary, while the government continues to pay the salaries of soldiers and police officers who abandoned their positions without a fight in June. "
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At the invitation of the Supreme religious authority, many have volunteered to help save Iraq from the evils of regulation Daash. Abu Murtada al-Musawi -mn city of Basra among the thousands of volunteers who have answered the call, but that after three months he spent on the front lines of the fight returned to his home with a number of his friends because they have run out of food. Says, "Sometimes the money we do not have to buy a card for mobile communication Bauaúlna, everyone feels as if the government has outta".
Today urges the Shiite clerical establishment in Iraq loyal to donate food, money and supplies, and hopes to avoid a repeat of what happened during the summer from the collapse of the Iraqi army's morale in the face of progress Daash who seized the second largest city in the country and trying to go south to the capital.
After the June attack snap across northern Iraq Shortly, told tens of thousands of Shiites call top cleric Ali al-Sistani carry weapons, came a lot of volunteers from more areas of the country's poorest and who were barely cover the expenses of their families. And entrusted them with the task of assisting in stopping progress extremists Daash toward Baghdad, lifting the siege on the city of Amerli in August and then expel extremists from the rock cliff south of the capital.
Musawi was with a group of his peers in the Latifiyah area - 30 km south of Baghdad - the duty of preventing Daash from entering the Sunni areas In the so-called Ring of Baghdad. But over the past two months, shrinking the number of men in the unit, which belongs to it Moussawi, where he returned nearly a thousand fighters to their homes because they face economic difficulties, he said.
In Harthiya district of Baghdad, a representative of Sistani's office urged recently his followers to donate food and money fighters popular crowd, warning that many of them had left fighting for this reason. He said that instead of spending money on meals and luxury food in recent religious occasion, the Shiites donate to the fighters on the battlefront. Since then began to donate money, clothing and food is flowing at the local mosque and the charity office.
said Issam Abbas that he began with other traders in Basra send four loads of food and water to the front lines in each month as a contribution to them in the war on Daash group, where he says " We can not let our business, so we consider the monthly our donations as a holy war against the terrorists. "
In the capital's Sadr City, the wealthy Shiite donation for the purchase of arms and ammunition gear in order to send them to the fighters what caused the rise in the price per Alatalaqh from 40 cents to two dollars, while increased the price of the gun AK 47 to $ 800 from $ 350 a few months ago.
participated Hassan Saleh - the owner of a coffee shop in Sadr City - in the fight against Daash north of Baghdad during the month of September, however, he and his fighters never receive their any financial support from the The government had relied entirely on donations and their own to meet their daily needs, what was it, but he returned to his home with his family interesting, to say "the government's negligence caused us a sense of bitterness between the volunteer fighters who risk their lives in order to protect the country. We have not received any salary, while the government continues to pay the salaries of soldiers and police officers who abandoned their positions without a fight in June. "
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