Iraq Archives - Page 13 of 115

29Jan

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Human Rights, Iraq

This is the face of the Zio-Wahhabi ISIS sex slave market

Lamiya Aji Bashar, an 18-year-old Yazidi girl who escaped her Islamic State group enslavers.AP The advertisement on the Telegram app is as chilling as it is incongruous: A girl for sale is “Virgin. Beautiful. 12 years old…. Her price has reached $12,500 and she will be sold soon.” The posting in Arabic appeared on an encrypted conversation along with ads for kittens, weapons and tactical gear. It was shared with the Associated Press by an activist with the minority Yazidi community, whose women and children are being held as sex slaves by the Saudi Zio-Wahhabi extremists. While the Islamic State group is losing territory in its self-styled caliphate, it is tightening its grip on the estimated 3,000 women and girls held as sex slaves. In a fusion of ancient barbaric practices ...

28Jan

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C.I.A, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, USA, ZIO-NAZI

CIA Official ‘Behind Soleimani’s Assassination’ Killed in Downed Plane in Afghanistan?

By Middle East Monitor Global Research, The following report by Middle East Monitor remains to be fully corroborated. *** Russian intelligence sources have claimed that Michael D’Andrea, head of CIA operations in Iran and who orchestrated the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, was killed in a US spy plane downed yesterday in Ghazni, Afghanistan. The plane with US Air Force markings reportedly served as the CIA’s mobile command for D’Andrea, who earnt several nicknames including: Ayatollah Mike, the Dark Prince, and the Undertaker. He is one of the most prominent CIA figures in the region, appointed head of the agency’s Iran Mission Centre in 2017. Under his leadership, the agency was perceived to take a more “aggressive stance toward ...

27Jan

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Iran, Iraq, Middle East, USA

The U.S. Is Recycling Its Big Lie About Iraq to Target Iran

By Nicolas J. S. Davies Global Research, Sixteen years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, most Americans understand that it was an illegal war based on lies about non-existent “weapons of mass destruction.” But our government is now threatening to drag us into a war on Iran with a nearly identical “big lie” about a non-existent nuclear weapons program, based on politicized intelligence from the same CIA teams that wove a web of lies to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. In 2002-3, U.S. officials and corporate media pundits repeated again and again that Iraq had an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction that posed a dire threat to the world. The CIA produced reams of false intelligence to support the march to war, and che...

23Jan

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Iraq, USA

Trump’s Katyusha Conundrum: Unguided Artillery Deployed by Iraqi Insurgents against US Occupation Forces

By William Walter Kay Global Research, Katyushas are short-range, unguided artillery rockets typically fired in salvos from truck-mounted launch-tubes. Iraq’s insurgents deploy three types. The smallest is 107 millimetres in diameter and 1 metre long. Its 19 kilogram weight includes an 8 kg high-explosive, shrapnel-bearing warhead. The 107mm is often fired from a 12-tube launcher, however, infantry-portable single-tube tripods are common. An experienced crew with a standardised weapon can hit a 400 X 400 metre target from 8 kilometres away. During the Vietnam War the US Army considered the 107mm to be their adversaries’ most formidable weapon. The 122mm ‘Grad’ Katyusha is 3 metres long and weighs 75 kg. Its warhead spans a third of its length...

19Jan

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Iraq, Russia

Iraq Set to Buy Russian S-400 Air Defense System and Assert Its Sovereignty

By Steven Sahiounie Iran attacked US forces stationed at two bases in Iraq with 15 missiles on January 8th, but it does not appear missile defense systems were used to counter them. Eric Gomez, a missile defense policy analyst at the Cato Institute, said the next day, “And from the reporting I’ve seen about last night, it doesn’t appear that the US had a Patriot battery actually stationed at either of these bases.” The bases hit are Iraqi bases that house US troops, who have now been asked to leave Iraq by a parliament resolution. Iraqi officials are deeply concerned about the lack of air defenses in Iraq, in the wake of a proxy-war between Iran and the US, being waged while they sit sandwiched in the middle. The Iraqi ambassador to Iran, Saad Jawad Qandil,...

17Jan

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Iran, Iraq, Middle East, USA

A War on Iran Would be Different From Iraq, and Far, Far Worse

by ZOLTAN GROSSMAN Since President Trump’s assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, widespread alarm has centered on whether he is again dragging us into another war like Iraq, to detract from his impeachment. The bad news is that the situation is even more potentially disastrous. As a political-cultural geographer who has long studied the history of U.S. military interventions, I’m alarmed that his action could set into motion a regional conflagration, the violent break-up of Iran into ethnic enclaves, and a death toll that would make the Iraq War look like a warm-up exercise. The good news is that Americans can and have stood in the way of such a war, and we can do so again. Most Americans concur with the country singer Alan Jackson, who sang in 2002, “I’m not...

17Jan

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Australia, Canada, Germany, Iraq, United Kingdom, USA

US, UK, Australia, Canada and Germany Reject Iraqi Parliament’s Demand for US and Allied Troop Withdrawal

By Gideon Polya Global Research, Following the US assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Shiite Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis at Baghdad International Airport, the Iraqi PM, the Iraqi Parliament Speaker and the Iraqi Parliament have demanded that the US Alliance forces leave Iraq. The US, UK, Australia, Canada and Germany have rejected the Iraqi Parliament’s Quit Iraq demand, with the US threatening to instantly collapse the Iraqi economy by a banking freeze if Iraq insists on US Alliance withdrawal from its territory. (1) US Alliance violates Iraqi sovereignty and rejects the Iraqi Parliament’s Quit Iraq demand. Iraqis were outraged by the criminal murder by drone missile attack of Iranian General ...

16Jan

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Iran, Iraq, Middle East, USA

Iraq: The October Revolution of 2019 and the Iran-US Conflict

Iraq is home to thousands of US troops and is also home to powerful Iranian-backed militias. The fear is that Iraq could become the battleground of a war between the United States and Iran. By Dirk Adriaensens The revolts that have swept over Iraq since 1 October 2019 come at a critical moment of increasing tensions between Iran and the United States, both allies of the Iraqi government. Rivalry between the US and Iran increases On August 29, 2019, the International Crisis Group published a report calling for the US-Iran conflict not to be settled in Iraq. “In June, various rockets were fired at American installations in Iraq, and in July-August, explosions destroyed the storage sites for weapons and a convoy of Iraqi paramilitary groups associated with Iran. These inci...

16Jan

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Iran, Iraq, Middle East, USA

Peace or War?

But logic, let alone common sense, does not always prevail when vested interests are at stake... By Donald Monaco Global Research, The world breathed a sigh of relief when Iran undertook to give the Americans a symbolic ‘slap in the face’ as a response to the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani. Stepping back from the precipice of war, President Trump responded by intensifying economic sanctions rather than choosing military escalation of the conflict. The ‘slap’ was more than symbolic however. It was a bold demonstration that Iran could hit any U.S. base in the Middle East where American troops are sitting ducks. More significantly, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took the historical long view by stating th...

16Jan

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Iraq, USA

Will Baghdad Defy Washington?

Will Baghdad Defy Washington? Iraqi Parliament Contemplates Buying Russia’s S-400 Missile Defense System “We authorized the prime minister to get air defense weapons from any country he wants and we authorized him to spend the money for it, from any country. From Russia or anyone.” By Paul Antonopoulos Global Research, With tensions mounting between Iran and the United States after the latter assassinated Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq, Baghdad has now been pushing to free itself from American domination by calling for foreign troops to leave the country and announcing its intensions in buying the Russian S-400 missile defense system. The complete destruction of the U.S. military base in Anbar province earlier this month demonstrated to Iraqi leaders th...