Thursday, September 20, 2007

ஈராக் மோசூலை சேர்ந்த ஜாதிகள் அல்குவேதாவுக்கு எதிராக அணிவகுப்பு

வடக்கில் மோசூல் நகரத்தில் உள்ள ஜாதித்தலைவர்களை சந்தித்து அந்த ஜாதிகள் அல்குவேதாவுக்கு எதிராக அணிதிரள வேண்டும் என்று ஈராக் பிரதமர் அல் மாலிகி கேட்டுகொண்டுள்ளார்.

அல் ஜார்யா ஜாதியை சேர்ந்த ஷேக் பாயஸ் அல் ஜார்யா அவர்கள் வெகுவிரைவில் இந்த ஜாதிகள்கூட்டமைப்பு போராளிப்படை அமைக்கப்படும் என்று தெரிவித்துள்ளார்


Mosul tribes rally to fight al-Qaeda
By Salem Areef
Azzaman, September 18, 2007

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has given tribes in the northern city of Mosul the green light to set up a force to fight al-Qaeda, according to a senor tribal chief.

Sheikh Fawaz al-Jarya said the tribes will initially form two battalions whose members will be armed and financed by the government.

The move to throw in the tribes in the battle against al-Qaeda comes amid reports that the group has turned the province of Nineveh of which Mosul is the capital into a major base in the country.

Nineveh’s governor, Duraid Kashmoula, is reported to have notified the government and U.S. occupation troops that al-Qaeda has made Mosul its main stronghold as pressure on it mounts in Baghdad, Anbar and other areas in central Iraq.

“The security forces in the province are weak and poorly equipped and armed,” Kashmoula said.

The governor has been critical of the central government for neglecting his province, saying Mosul was in need of more resources and better armed troops to reinstate peace and stability.

Violence is raging in the city with gunmen practically in control of most districts. Iraqi police and troops in the city are no match to the growing strength of al-Qaeda.

Kashmoula declined comment on the move by Nineveh tribal chiefs to mobilize tribesmen against al-Qaeda.

But al-Jarya said his initiative has the backing of Arab and Kurdish tribes in the province and the plan is first to purge the villages and then move towards the provincial center.

The tribes, he said, have promised to guard roads and highways to restrict al-Qaeda’s mobility.

“The tribes have suffered the ferocity and barbarity of al-Qaeda organization and the war it wages against Iraqi civilians. This requires from us all to back the state in its confrontation of this organization and its elements,” al-Jarya said.

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