Wall Street: the rapid progress in Tikrit tasked popular crowd .. and leaders are re-evaluating losses
3/21/2015
Component of the popular crowd standing next to his motorcycle on a hill on the outskirts of hand flag
Battle of the restoration of the city of Tikrit, gunmen "Daash" which was launched on March 2 this, slowed down a bit as it approaches its third week, which hit the Sunni community there some kind of frustration after the military operations that were paid gunmen "Daash" to stop outside the cities. Iraqi officials, who had confirmed earlier that the military success of the process and reach down to this stage thanks to subsidized units of the popular crowd security forces had the greatest weight in the restoration of a few towns. Soldiers and fighters of the popular crowd, did not hide the difficulties they faced in the major areas of the city, they have indicated their inability to root out extremist organization of these cities because of good immunization them by drawing on the booby-trapping homes and planting mines on both sides of the roads as well as the spread of snipers and suicide bombers. There is no doubt that the emergence of these obstacles, enhance frustration which leads to the question, which is an important factor, is that the Iraqi security forces are capable of ending the battle in their favor and pay the extremist group to the outside? This also leads to another question which is most important, how will the shape and features of the battle in Mosul, in the event of relying only on the ability of the security forces?
The leaders of the popular crowd, for their part, announced earlier, they do not need a US air support in the military blow against the militants, "Daash", but after this sudden stop, increasing the need for air power and weapons, which has the primary role in the coverage of ground forces. He insists Iraqi security officials, to give one after the other justifications on the reasons for the cessation of hostilities, which sparked a major US questions.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, met with his military commanders last week, and explained the timetable for the start of the new attack, they most likely, according to leaks from the meeting room, discussed how the arrival of reinforcements awaited military cuts in addition to the Pause is an opportunity to count the dead and avoid casualties sealed Currently, according to the leaks.
Marwan mighty, the head of local tribal council in Salah al-Din, said that the battle did not stop the way they promoted in the media, with evidence that there are clashes with militants and talk about stopping completely is ridiculous, justified, that what is happening is that the military commanders are re-evaluating the situation and studying how to break into the city and out of them at the lowest casualties.
Sheikh mighty, adding that militants "Daash", planted about 6500 an explosive device in Tikrit, almost, and this the only way to protect them against fire from security forces as well as the majority of them are still holed up in the presidential palaces of the dictator Saddam Hussein, as he put it.
He acknowledged the tremendous that the battle has diminished in the third week than it was in the previous two weeks, where he was fighting in the first period on a completely peak, indicating at the same time, that these successes also are part of the problem, because the rapid progress that has happened onset tasked fighters making them is ready for the final attack and the last they see very difficult.
He attributed the tremendous slowdown in the security forces and the popular crowd, the absence of explosives experts with extensive experience to defuse the thousands of roadside bombs planted by Jhadio organization since last summer.
The Wall Street Journal has been published in a previous report, citing the popular crowd fighters, that the success of their progress was due to the conduct of drones that reveal the cameras jihadists organization sites and sensor improvised explosive devices that were holed up militants "Daash", as well as the role of Sunni fighters from tribes who provided good intelligence about their region geographically.
Believes that the American military retreat militants "Daash" of Tikrit, and they fled, perhaps understand that enhance the capabilities of the organization in Mosul, especially as the city restore process will begin in the spring, according to Washington's latest remarks.
It is said that the organization "Daash", dominated the vast expanses of the sweeping offensive in Iraq during the past summer, and since then targeted "Daash" religious sects such as the Shiites, Sunnis and Christians, Yazidis, especially those who settle the mountains of northwest Iraq.
In a report published last week, the human rights organization urged the International Criminal Court to prosecute "Daash" to commit genocide against the Yazidis, as based on interviews with more than 100 personalities from the victims, the report said, that "Islamic state" is still holding 3000 Yazidi woman.
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3/21/2015
Component of the popular crowd standing next to his motorcycle on a hill on the outskirts of hand flag
Battle of the restoration of the city of Tikrit, gunmen "Daash" which was launched on March 2 this, slowed down a bit as it approaches its third week, which hit the Sunni community there some kind of frustration after the military operations that were paid gunmen "Daash" to stop outside the cities. Iraqi officials, who had confirmed earlier that the military success of the process and reach down to this stage thanks to subsidized units of the popular crowd security forces had the greatest weight in the restoration of a few towns. Soldiers and fighters of the popular crowd, did not hide the difficulties they faced in the major areas of the city, they have indicated their inability to root out extremist organization of these cities because of good immunization them by drawing on the booby-trapping homes and planting mines on both sides of the roads as well as the spread of snipers and suicide bombers. There is no doubt that the emergence of these obstacles, enhance frustration which leads to the question, which is an important factor, is that the Iraqi security forces are capable of ending the battle in their favor and pay the extremist group to the outside? This also leads to another question which is most important, how will the shape and features of the battle in Mosul, in the event of relying only on the ability of the security forces?
The leaders of the popular crowd, for their part, announced earlier, they do not need a US air support in the military blow against the militants, "Daash", but after this sudden stop, increasing the need for air power and weapons, which has the primary role in the coverage of ground forces. He insists Iraqi security officials, to give one after the other justifications on the reasons for the cessation of hostilities, which sparked a major US questions.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, met with his military commanders last week, and explained the timetable for the start of the new attack, they most likely, according to leaks from the meeting room, discussed how the arrival of reinforcements awaited military cuts in addition to the Pause is an opportunity to count the dead and avoid casualties sealed Currently, according to the leaks.
Marwan mighty, the head of local tribal council in Salah al-Din, said that the battle did not stop the way they promoted in the media, with evidence that there are clashes with militants and talk about stopping completely is ridiculous, justified, that what is happening is that the military commanders are re-evaluating the situation and studying how to break into the city and out of them at the lowest casualties.
Sheikh mighty, adding that militants "Daash", planted about 6500 an explosive device in Tikrit, almost, and this the only way to protect them against fire from security forces as well as the majority of them are still holed up in the presidential palaces of the dictator Saddam Hussein, as he put it.
He acknowledged the tremendous that the battle has diminished in the third week than it was in the previous two weeks, where he was fighting in the first period on a completely peak, indicating at the same time, that these successes also are part of the problem, because the rapid progress that has happened onset tasked fighters making them is ready for the final attack and the last they see very difficult.
He attributed the tremendous slowdown in the security forces and the popular crowd, the absence of explosives experts with extensive experience to defuse the thousands of roadside bombs planted by Jhadio organization since last summer.
The Wall Street Journal has been published in a previous report, citing the popular crowd fighters, that the success of their progress was due to the conduct of drones that reveal the cameras jihadists organization sites and sensor improvised explosive devices that were holed up militants "Daash", as well as the role of Sunni fighters from tribes who provided good intelligence about their region geographically.
Believes that the American military retreat militants "Daash" of Tikrit, and they fled, perhaps understand that enhance the capabilities of the organization in Mosul, especially as the city restore process will begin in the spring, according to Washington's latest remarks.
It is said that the organization "Daash", dominated the vast expanses of the sweeping offensive in Iraq during the past summer, and since then targeted "Daash" religious sects such as the Shiites, Sunnis and Christians, Yazidis, especially those who settle the mountains of northwest Iraq.
In a report published last week, the human rights organization urged the International Criminal Court to prosecute "Daash" to commit genocide against the Yazidis, as based on interviews with more than 100 personalities from the victims, the report said, that "Islamic state" is still holding 3000 Yazidi woman.
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