.Mnt Goat Update for June 15th
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.Mnt Goat Update for June 15th
June 15, 2017 Mnt Goat News Brief
Hi Everyone,
I bring you much news today.
So Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi will visit Iran after ending his visit to Saudi Arabia. Does this sound strange to you? Why is Abadi going to Iran? When you read the last article in today’s news letter about the upcoming threat from Iranian influence in Iraq and its dangers, you will know why. Can Abadi do something about this influence? Can he convince Iran’s government officials and their spiritual leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to live in peace and it is more beneficial to be friends and trading partners? Remember Iran now wants desperately to get back into the global financial arena. This is simply not going to happen unless these militias are disbanded and their leaders taken down.
We can see a major conflict (war) developing very possibly between Saudis, Israel, Iraq, Turkey, USA vs Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen, or any other country where there are terrorists. I do not this is going to be a WWIII but it is not going to be so nice either. So we are at a crossroad now.
What will happen and can they mend peace and keep the region stable while allowing Iraq to develop and prosper? This is our obstacle to any RV. Are you listening to me now?
More news…..status on fighting ISIS:
WOW! Mid June and still fighting ISIS. Who would have thought it would have taken three years already to dislodge ISIS?
On last Wednesday, the head of the federal police, Major Raed Jawdat , that his forces carried out on Wednesday, a tactical operation dragged dozens of extremists were dragged from the vicinity of "Al-Nuri Mosque" towards the liberated area of Dandan, and landed in a plow of snipers and guided shelling for a deadly ambush.
(So we see the final part being worked on. Note the military has pulled out of the fight against ISIS and it is now carried out by the federal police)
Iraqi forces last Tuesday reported much progress in the U.S.-backed campaign to dislodge Islamic State from Mosul, announcing the capture of a district just north the city’s historic center. With the loss of the Zanjili neighborhood, the enclave still held by Islamic State in the northern Iraqi city has shrunk to two districts along the western banks of the Tigris river – the densely populated Old City center and the Medical City.
Last Monday the federal police team leader, Raed Jawdat, in a statement with, "Tomorrow 's Press". He said Jawdat, that "special units were advancing towards the last stronghold of Al-Nuri mosque in Daesh Ayman Mosul."
Last Sunday, the Prime Minister Haider Abadi, armed forces commander general, said that less than 4 kilometers left on the right side of the city of Mosul is all that separates us from announcing the complete liberation of the city.
As many of you may already have heard, Abadi made a visit to Saudi Arabia the week emphasizing his current vision for Iraq. Abadi said: "I have an invitation from Saudi Arabia for a year and a half ago, and boot it by visiting Saudi officials and open an Embassy in Baghdad," pointing out that "this visit is not related to the Gulf crisis", adding that "when we try to progress step of rapprochement with neighboring countries there are internal and external voices trying to hinder this rapprochement," he said, adding that "foreign policy of Iraq going according to see put Iraq and Iraqi interests in mind in any diplomatic movement. " (So it was not about the RV…..please stop all this RV nonsense)
As always my comments are in italic RED.
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Iraq PM Abadi hails anti-ISIS quick victory
Iraqi PM Haider Abadi said Sunday that none of the world leaders had dreamed such a quick victory against ISIS terror group, asserting that the banner of victory will soon be lifted. (not yet but soon!)
A statement released by Abadi’s media office said, “Abadi met this morning with special forces and congratulated them on the victories they have achieved in many battles in the mountains of Makhoul, Tikrit, Falluja and others after uniting efforts with the army and the federal police and Counter-Terrorism forces”.
The statement quoted Abadi as saying that “Iraq has the capabilities and power unless it is owned by others, and that none of the leaders of the world was dreaming that victory would be achieved at such a rapid pace,” pointing out that “the dispersion led to the entry of a supporter and our unity led to victories and liberating the land”. (Oh- wait a second isn’t Abadi that said ISIS would be done by end of 2016?)
“We are determined to protect citizens, prosecute those involved in organized crimes,” he said.
The Iraqi army, backed by the US-led international coalition, started an offensive to liberate the second largest Iraqi city in October 2016.
The Iraqi army announced it was about to fully recapture Mosul. (Not yet but about to tells me NOT yet done!)
Iran-allied IMIS militias participates in the operations. But it is involved in tortures, lootings and killings of civilians, particularly Sunnis. (We know and this is why the Iranian influence must go!)
The Iraqi parliament welcomes the adoption of trade for the first time on two articles of supply from the local product
A member of the House of Representatives Hammam Hamoudi welcomed the adoption by the Ministry of Commerce on the local product in the provision of ration card items of “sugar and edible oil” for the first time since 2003,considering it an important step towards supporting the national product and stopping the external importer.
Hamoudi stressed the need to continue this step and expand it in order to contribute to the advancement of the processing of food “Iraqi” through the factories of the national stalled and the workers sincere and adapted to the needs of the citizen.
Parliament seeks Maliki trial over Mosul fall to ISIS
The parliamentary legal committee requested on Monday the attorney general to reopen the issue of Mosul's fall in ISIS' grip, a move that will lead to the trial of Iraqi officials, including former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki.
The Iraqi Parliament voted in 2015 on this issue and referred it to the judicial system to take the necessary measures.
Mohsen al-Saadon, head of the parliamentary legal committee, called on the government to follow up this issue and be aware of its development.
The parliament voted in August 2015 on a report calling for the prosecution of al-Maliki and 35 Iraqi officials over the fall of Mosul city to ISIS.
The terrorist group's seizure of Mosul, Iraq's second city, in June 2014 as it swept across the Syrian border and declared a modern caliphate, exposed once and for all the brokenness of the system left in place by the 2003-2011 US occupation.
It has left the Baghdad government dependent on Shiite militias, many funded and assisted by neighboring Iran, to defend the capital and recapture lost ground.
It is estimated that there are a few of ISIS terrorists left in the second largest city of Iraq. It is expected that they will desperately defend the last pocket of the city that has been once their main stronghold in Iraq.
As Extremists Lose Power In Iraq, Militias Loyal To Iran Gain It
(OK- so why am I presenting this article to you today? You do want to know what is or will be holding back the RV…don’t you. Well you must educate yourself instead of listening to all these so called I ntel “gurus”. It is easy to do. All you have to do is take the time to read up on what they are telling us. So here is an excellent article that is a gem of an article. Please read it carefully and try to understand what they are telling us. Yes, Iraq may have many after ISIS parties but the real party begins when they realize they can’t control these Iranian militias and they too begin to take control of Iraq. This is not going to be pretty. Sorry I ruined your RV party!.....)
Mustafa Habib
The Iraqi government’s next big problem is coming into view: The group of powerful Shiite Muslim militias loyal to Iran seem to want to keep the country enmeshed in regional turmoil. ( I told you so….This is going to be the next conflict with Iran once ISIS is gone. This is why the USA wants to keep a presence in Iraq for years to come. They must get rid of this Iranian militias and influence over Iraq. There is 2 parts to this: first they have to eliminate these militias and second they have to weed out those in politics that are loyal Iranian Shiite. )
14.06.2017 | Baghdad
A member of a Shiite Musilm militia wearing green and yellow, the Shia colors.
As the extremist group known as the Islamic State is driven out of the country, the Iraqi government is facing up to a new threat to its authority – this comes from the Shiite Muslim militias, once volunteers who came together to defend their towns against the Islamic State but who have since turned into a formidable, quasi-official fighting force.
The Shiite Muslim militias themselves are divided into three main groups, with:
1)some professing loyalty to the Iraqi government and
2)the Shiite Muslim religious authorities in Najaf, while others openly admit they take orders from neighboring Iran and Iranian clerics.
3) A third group is affiliated with the Iraqi clerics, Muqtada al-Sadr or Ammar al-Hakim.
The factions loyal to Iran differ from the others in that they are the most well-armed and more powerful than the others. They are called the Walaei militias – the word means “loyal” – and they say that they prefer to obey Iran’s spiritual leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and that they see Iraq and Syria as one military front, where they will continue to fight even after the Islamic State, or IS, group has been expelled.
I can openly say that we do not take our orders from the Iraqi government. We are ready to fight in Syria, Lebanon and Yemen, or any other country where there are terrorists. (oh- but in doing so you yourselves are terrorists)
One of the around 20 different groups associated with the Walaei militias is the Khorasani Brigade, who are closely associated with Iranian General Hamid Taghavi, a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, who was killed fighting the IS group in northern Iraq in late 2014. Alongside pictures of Taghavi, the faction has idolizing pictures of Khamenei in its headquarters and on their military vehicles.
“I can openly say that we do not take our orders from the Iraqi government,” says Abu Hassan al-Atabi, one of the members of the brigade, speaking to NIQASH on the phone. “We fought in Iraq during these difficult times and we have fought to prevent the fall of Baghdad to the IS group. (So we can save it for ourselves for a later takeover….lol…lol…). We will be present even after the extremists have been pushed out. The IS group is just one of our challenges,” he continued. “The conflict in the Middle East continues and we are ready to fight in Syria, Lebanon and Yemen, or any other country where there are terrorists.”
These kinds of ambitions mean that pro-Iranian militias are becoming more and more of a problem for the Iraqi government. At the end of last month, Iranian loyalist militias almost connected with the Syrian army and pro-Iranian militia groups in Syria, on the Iraqi-Syrian border. There were some fears that when the two sides met, they would open a land corridor, that would, as the Washington Post reported, “give Tehran control of a large swath of the Syrian-Iraqi border, securing a land route through Iraq and across southern Syria to its proxy, Hezbollah, in Lebanon”. Coalition aircraft flew overhead and dropped leaflets asking the militias to leave the border area.
In a mid-May speech, Qais al-Khazali, head of the pro-Iranian League of the Righteous militia, said that, “we will reach the borders with Syria and our brothers in Syria are getting closer to the borders too. In this way, we, the Shiite Muslim militias, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Houthi movement [of Yemen] are going to establish the Shiite crescent”. (Can you see where they are going with this when they join up forces? This could get very messy. This could be major war in the middle east. But only if Russia and Turkey decide they are going to take the side of Qais al-Khazali’s plan. Remember there is also Israel and Saudi Arabia to consider too and we know they will back any USA efforts. This is why Trump made sure he visited Israel and the Saudi. You see this was not just a pleasure trip. Trump knows what is coming next.
Yes- and this could be our next obstacle to any Iraqi dinar revaluation. But then again the RV may help Iraq and stabilize it too. I have been telling everyone in Europe and in the USA about this. Were you listening to me or too busy listening to all these every day / every weekend RV so called intel “gurus”?)
Leaders of the various Shiite Musilm militias.
“The Iraqi government is in an embarrassing position because of the pro-Iranian faction,” a senior government official told NIQASH, off the record. “The US spoke directly with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and urged him to maintain control of these factions and to try and keep them away from Iranian influences. But that is very hard to do.”
It had been proposed that the volunteer militias be absorbed into the regular Iraqi army and police but this is far from happening in reality. Pro-Iranian factions are very popular and influential in Iraq at the moment, particularly in Baghdad and in southern provinces. They have large offices that are similar to regional police stations and if the regular army and police are not busy trying to avoid any contact with the groups, then they are likely to be currying favor with their leaders in order to avoid any kind of neighborhood conflict.
This conflict dates back to al-Sadr choosing to fight the US troops, and receiving military aid from Iran to do so. The pro-Iranian Shiite Muslim militias in Iraq actually date back to 2003, and the US-led invasion of Iraq that removed Saddam Hussein from power. Back then, Iraq’s supreme Shiite Muslim religious authority, Ali al-Sistani, resisted pressure to tell the Iraqi people to fight US forces in the country. Instead he asked them to remain neutral. It was then that Iran took advantage of another influential, and much younger, cleric’s desire to fight the US. That was Muqtada al-Sadr, who benefitted from Iranian influence and largesse with the creation of the Mahdi army, basically an army of followers of the cleric and his family that is now known as the Sadrist movement.
The Mahdi army is the spiritual ancestor of the Shiite Muslim factions who are loyal to Iran to this day, says Hamid al-Taei, a cleric who teaches in a Najaf religious school, adding that, “this conflict dates back to al-Sadr choosing to fight the US troops, and receiving military aid from Iran to do so.”
When al-Sadr decided it was time for the Mahdi army to put down its weapons and chose to publicly distance himself from Iranian influence, some of his senior aides defected and formed another militia of those who wished to continue fighting. One of these was the League of the Righteous, headed by al-Khazali today. Since 2014, the number of militias who have pledged allegiance to Iranian religious authorities, rather than Iraqi ones has grown, al-Taei explains.
After Iraqi religious authority Ali al-Sistani called for volunteers to fight against the IS group in mid-2014, al-Taei says that the pro-Iranian factions basically executed a sort of coup against al-Sistani, taking advantage of that call to form more military units that they would be able to continue to influence.
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Their words not mine…..No Rumors, No Hype, Just the FACTS!
Auf Wiedersehen
Much love to ya all,
Mnt Goat
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