The Iraqi civil war thread
Clashes in western Iraq began on 30 December 2013 when Iraqi security forces cleared up a Sunni protest camp in Ramadi. Tribal militias battled against the Iraqi Army. After the Iraqi Army withdrew fromAnbar province to cool the situation on 31 December, militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) occupied parts of the Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, in the predominantly Sunni Al Anbar governorate. Following the arrival of ISIL, most tribal militias in Ramadi allied themselves with government forces to counter them.
Groups involved
There are several groups comprising the non-ISIS armed opposition. JRTN were also said to be part of the Sunni opposition to the Iraqi government.[12] The Military Council of the Tribal Revolutionaries, the largest of the non-ISIS groups, appears to include a number of groups previously involved in the Iraqi Insurgency including the JRTN, 1920 Revolution Brigade, the Islamic Army in Iraq, the Jaish al-Rashideen, Iraqi Hamas, and the former Mujahideen Shura Council of Abdullah al-Janabi.
A second group, known as the Anbar Tribes Revolutionary Council is headed by Sheikh Ali Hatem Suleiman. This group, unlike the MCTR, doesn't actively advocate the overthrow of the Iraqi government but instead is limited in ambition to defending Anbar from what it see's as aggression from the Iraqi central government.
The final group is known as the Army of Pride and Dignity, although the group is distinct from the group of the same name formed by Sheikh Ali Hatem Suleiman following the 2013 Hawija clashes. This group is heavily decentralized, with no clear structure or leadership.
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Important figures
Rebels:
Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri (Arabic: ابراهيم عواد ابراهيم علي البدري), generally known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (أبو بكر البغدادي), and also as Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai, or Dr. Ibrahim, or Abu Dua (أبو دعاء),[2] is the leader of what was formerly known as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).
AQI was the Iraqi division of the international Islamist militant organization al-Qaeda. Al-Baghdadi moved to Syria after the beginning of that country's revolution, and in April 2013 announced the merger, with himself still in overall command, of his group with Syria's Jabhat al Nusra, under the name of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Jabhat al-Nusra's leader disputed this merger and appealed to al-Qaeda emir Ayman al-Zawahiri, who ruled against al-Baghdadi.Al-Baghdadi, however, dismissed the ruling and took control of a reported 80% of Jabhat al-Nusra's foreign fighters.[5]
On 4 October 2011, the US State Department marketed al-Baghdadi as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist while announcing a $10 million reward for information leading to his capture or death.[6] Only al-Zawahiri, chief of the global al-Qaeda organization, merits a larger reward at $25 million.
Government:
Nouri Kamil Mohammed Hasan al-Maliki (Arabic: نوري كامل محمد حسن المالكي; born 20 June 1950), also known as Jawad al-Maliki (جواد المالكي) or Abu Esraa (أبو إسراء) is the Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Al-Maliki and his government succeeded the Iraqi Transitional Government. He is currently in his second term as Prime Minister. His first Cabinet was approved by the National Assembly and sworn in on 20 May 2006; his second Cabinet, in which he also holds the positions of acting Interior Minister, acting Defense Minister, and acting National Security Minister, was approved on 21 December 2010.
Al-Maliki began his political career as a Shia dissident under Saddam Hussein's dictatorship in the late 1970s and rose to prominence after he fled a death sentence into exile for 24 years. During his time abroad, he became a senior leader of Dawa, coordinated the activities of anti-Saddam guerillas and built relationships with Iranian and Syrian officials whose help he sought in overthrowing Saddam. While having worked closely with United States and coalition forces in Iraq since their departure by the end of 2011, there have been claims that al-Maliki has been trying to gain control over the armed groups in his country as means to consolidate the Prime Minister's power and marginalize Sunni opposition.[1][2]
People to follow on Twitter reporting about the civil war
follow at own risk. They post pictures and movies of executions, beheadings and such.
https://twitter.com/IraqiWitness
Movies
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Watch on your own risk. Soldiers getting executed at the end, crying for their live.
Will be updating this thread regularly
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Originally Posted by Treize
