Sunni jihadists continue their jihad against the Shi’ite government, which is also, of course, waging jihad against them. This cycle of violence and revenge will never end as long as there are people in Iraq who believe that “We ordained for them therein a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and for wounds is legal retribution.” (Qur’an 5:45)
“Gunmen ram explosives-laden tanker into Iraq police HQ,” from Reuters, March 21 (thanks to Maxwell):
(Reuters) – Scores of gunmen took over a federal police headquarters in northern Iraq on Friday before driving a tanker laden with explosives into the building, killing many, a government official said.
The battalion commander and his assistant were among the dead but the total number of casualties was still impossible to ascertain because victims remained trapped beneath the building in the village of Injana, the official said.
The mayor of the nearby town of Sulaiman Pek, 160 km (100 miles) north of Baghdad, said security forces were still fighting the gunmen, who also seized control of another town in the area called Serha.
Militants occupied Sulaiman Pek last month and raised the black flag of the Sunni Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) over it.
Security officials said the tanker bombing might have targeted Brigadier General Raghib Ali in revenge for his role in driving the militants out of Sulaiman Pek.
ISIL, which is also active in neighboring Syria, has regained momentum in Iraq over the past year and is one of a number of insurgent and tribal groups that stormed the cities of Ramadi and Falluja in the western province of Anbar in January.
In Ramadi, six people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque where a funeral was being held for an officer who died in a roadside bombing earlier this week, medical and security sources.
Meanwhile in Falluja, about 300 militants paraded through the main streets of Falluja late on Thursday, dressed in black and bearing ISIL’s banner. They showed off military Humvees, armored vehicles and some weapons they said they had taken from soldiers during the fighting.
Residents of Falluja lined the road, welcoming them with cries of “you are heroes!” and showering them with chocolates.…
That was the welcome George W. Bush thought American troops would get. The people of Falluja saved it for the Islamic jihadists.
mortimer says
History is not on the side of the jihadists. They will all end up killed by the government or imprisoned for life.
gravenimage says
No offense, Moritmer, but what would that even mean in a place like Iraq?
This is not really a civilized government standing against Jihadists, but more a bloody internecine Jihad between Sunnis and Shi’ites.
Transmaster says
Yes mortimer the Saudi Royal family is starting to realize all of the oil money they have is not going to keep jihadist at arms length forever.
Salah says
Saudi Arabia designates Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/07/us-saudi-security-idUSBREA260SM20140307
tpellow says
“The Nature of War Has Changed”
by PATRICK COCKBURN
[Excerpt]:
“The government” [of Syria] “is probably killing far more civilians than the rebels. But this may be largely because the government’s means of death and destruction are greater than the opposition’s. The al-Qa’ida type Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (Isil) recently showed its intentions by posting a video on YouTube of its gunmen stopping trucks on a road, asking the drivers to prove their familiarity with Sunni rituals and shooting them dead when they fail the test. The killers never ask the drivers if they are Alawites, Shia, Christians, Druze or Ishmaili; simply not being Sunni gets a death sentence.
“The jihadi groups that now dominate the armed opposition automatically kill non-Sunnis, who make up some 25 per cent of Syria’s population. In other words, at least five million Syrians have good reason to fear that they will be slaughtered if the rebels win the civil war. In fact, the number is even higher because Isil and other jihadis have a record of killing Sunni Kurds, another 10 per cent of the population, as well as Sunnis who are civilian employees of the government.
“The atrocities of the rebels do not exculpate the government or vice versa. But when politicians such as William Hague and the US Secretary of State demonise only government actions, they give a false picture of what is happening in Syria.”
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/03/the-nature-of-war-has-changed/
citycat says
The Battle
is Breeding
and Creeping
EYESOPEN says
This is what happens when the murder meme of islam takes over peoples’ minds. No shred of human decency remains. Winston Churchill said it best, that islam in a man is like rabies in a dog.
Judi says
The one good thing about all this murder and mayhem is that at the end of the day, all the dead are muslimes.
Veracious_one says
at least they’re not blaming the Jews or Bush….heck they don’t even blame themselves because their religion mandates the slaughter…
Walter Sieruk says
This reads a lot like another jihadist suicide/homicide attack. With that in mind it need very much to be restated the this is the result of the extreme mind programming that is done by the Islamic clerics such as that Imams and mullahs who thoroughly brainwash other people into believing in the Islamic doctrine from the Quran, 44:54. 55:56. 78:31., of some kind of a lust fulled paradise with many virgins in it for the jihadist who dies in the jihad for the cause of Islam. Of such false teachers as these imams and mullahs who indoctrinate other people into the belief in a lust filled place with virgins the Bible explains in Second Peter 2:18.”They speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lust of the flesh… ” Furthermore, many a times a jihadist in his death recording talks about “the wedding with the virgins” that he will have after he becomes a “martyr.” Such a belief Jesus would denounce as being based on false teachings. For Jesus taught “Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry , nor are given in marriage, but are as the angles in heaven.” Matthew 722:29,30. In contrast to the Islamic pipedream of the jihadist in the Quranic story/doctrine of a place with many virgins, Christians have the reality of second Peter 1:16. Which reads “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ…” [K.J.V.]
gravenimage says
That was the welcome George W. Bush thought American troops would get. The people of Falluja saved it for the Islamic jihadists.
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That pretty much sums it up. The “Iraqi people” have had eleven years to embrace civilized democracy—but this isn’t something any pious Muslim wants…
Huck Folder says
? O/T? “…a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque…”
I think they meant ‘barracks’. But this is just the latest example of their unholy treatment of their cult’s supposed ‘place of religious worship’.
So, will they scream blue bloody murder if in future some dhimmi puts a foot inside without removing their boots?
“OK, Squad 3, off with your boots, and search those barracks for armed-to-the-teeth islamist terrorists.”