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Despite the U.S. withdrawal base is the greatest threat to Iraq
On: Sun 11/03/2012 9:48
More: New York Times
if the Iraqis consider that the war had ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces, al-Qaida is determined to prove the contrary. Daily Bombs and shootings remain a feature of everyday life. In the last three months, al Qaeda launched attacks that killed at least 250 citizens. As evidence of the ability of insurgents have been able gunmen wearing military uniforms to bypass checkpoints in the modern city before dawn and killed 27 police personnel including two officers.
Is unlikely to return Iraq to the sectarian killings that has killed tens of thousands of Iraqis in 2006 and 2007, and is not also possible that al-Qaeda threatens to impose its rule on the areas in Iraq as it did in the first years after the 2003 war that toppled Saddam's regime, but There is no indication that al Qaeda intends to give up the fight - as did the militias that have expressed willingness to leave the weapon after the departure of U.S. forces - as the Iraqi security forces are unwilling to defeated forever. And will remain al-Qaeda pose a risk to have security forces, good intelligence and techniques of a sophisticated and gain the trust of the people in the areas that are still the rule has the support of it.
without the presence of U.S. forces that stand in the face, the rule adheres to the discourse of sectarian clearly and calls one of the slides to stand with them against the Baghdad government. After the announcement of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq claimed responsibility for the attacks of February 23 that killed 60 people, said one of their collections, "The next stage is the stage of a real confrontation, both approved of it or not." Ibrahim al-Shammari and said a spokesman for the Islamic Army that his group will continue fighting as long as the effects of the U.S. presence is still there, "We continue to defend the Iraqi people, and this weapon is the only guarantee for the safety of the Iraqi people." Iraqi authorities insist that it controls the situation, where, said Deputy Interior Minister Adnan al-Asadi that the attacks have declined by 80 percent compared with previous years, and that violence is a sign of the remaining terrorist groups to try to prove "their presence in the scene." Asadi and added "after the tightening grip on al Qaeda and other groups, and after blows they received, and the arrest of several of their leaders ... complied with their funding sources dramatically, prompting the creation of these groups to attack from time to time to prove their identity."
in the early years that followed the fall of Saddam, al Qaeda fighters took control of the cities of western Iraq and the middle and started to resist the American presence and impose strict interpretations of Shari'a. A result, the effects of extreme violence to base judgments and rigid ire of tribes that lined up with U.S. forces to expel al-Qaeda fighters from their strongholds, they no longer have control over the areas of importance to remember. Asadi says that the sons of the villages and towns after the insurgents fought, it is not likely to welcome the return of al-Qaeda, "al-Qaeda will not return for control of the state of the province because the people of those provinces may have tasted the bitterness of Al Qaeda." But al-Qaeda cells still remain and carry out suicide bombings and killings on a daily basis, where security forces are targeting vulnerable groups such as police checkpoints. Says Brian Fishman, a researcher at the center of the fight against terrorism in the U.S. military academy at West Point "They are being punished because of the security forces supporting the government and use violence to shed light on that."
This year rule derived its strength from the anger caused by the conflict in Syria. Says Fishman, "It's a real opportunity to rule Iraq as the movement of sectarianism in Syria is in their favor."
On the other hand says the Iraqi forces that the ability to collect intelligence are the biggest obstacles they face in fighting al-Qaeda.
and without the ability to analyze information so deeply they do not have choice but to launch raids whenever attacks occurred. Says one of the soldiers "do not have the technology or expertise. Whenever we got the information we immediately launched a raid or ambush without erect scrutinize health information."
and adds the soldier, "the most dangerous weaknesses of the soldier is said to be allied with al Qaeda, since they are using him and asking him to secrecy the attacks. "
security forces wide and decentralized, and their training is a continuous and intermittent. Each unit has its own procedures for own work and each of them wearing dresses can be purchased from the market in the streets, making it easier for insurgents wearing uniforms of security forces.
Also, some checkpoints stopped cars and are inspected, but at the checkpoints we see police Reclining on a column lighting and smoke cigarettes Aachron car look from their eyes. John Chancellor Drake says in one of the companies reputation for security that the security forces of corruption and brutality may cost them the confidence of their people, and the majority of people in many hot spots do not trust the police force, as in the former officers were involved in kidnappings and extortion, and that the recovery of their confidence will take a long time, and even then, people do not provide information about suspicious activities of the militants. "
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