ISIS 'execute' 1,700 Iraqi soldiers, post gruesome pictures (GRAPHIC)

EagleSmack

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quoting Eagle's own source:

"The Mahdi Army participated in battles against Sunni insurgents"


If anything, it is what led to the stability that al-Maliki and Jalal Talibani had. Once dissolved, the instability began.

Thanks for confirming what I wrote.

lmao... Seriously?

The Siege of Sadr City was a blockade of the Shi'a district of northeastern Baghdad carried out by U.S. and Iraqi government forces in an attempt to destroy the main power base of the insurgent Mahdi Army in Baghdad.

The Battle of Al Kut was a coordinated Iraqi uprising, launched near the beginning of the Iraq War by Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.[1]


he Battle of Najaf was fought between United States and Iraqi forces on one side and the Islamist Mahdi Army of Muqtada al-Sadr on the other in the Iraqi city of Najaf in August 2004.

The Battle of Diwaniya took place in Diwaniyah, 180 kilometers south of Baghdad, on August 28, 2006 between the Mahdi Army and the Iraqi Army.
The fighting erupted after coalition troops arrested a Sadr militia leader. The militia engaged in heavy street fighting with Iraqi soldiers which lasted late into the night. Militia fighters were entrenched in residential areas during the fighting. The Iraqi Army claims that most of its casualties occurred when Mahdi militiamen captured and executed a group of soldiers who had run out of ammunition.[1] By next morning a ceasefire was in place with 23 Iraqi soldiers, 20 militiamen and 7 civilians killed.
About a month and a half later on October 9, 2006 another battle broke out in the city, this time between the militia and the U.S. Army. Thirty militiamen were killed and a U.S. military tank was severely damaged.


The Siege of UK bases in Basra was conducted and maintained by the Mahdi Army in Basra for most of 2007. Following the reported success of the coalition operation codenamed Sinbad, whose purpose was to stabilise Basra and prepare it for the turning over of security to Iraqi government forces, the city was overrun by insurgent forces from three different militia forces, including the Mahdi Army, and the British found themselves under siege in their bases and capable of conducting only limited raids in armoured convoys into the city.

The Battle of Basra began on March 25, 2008, when the Iraqi Army launched an operation (code-named Saulat al-Fursan, meaning Operation Charge of the Knights in Arabic) to drive the Mahdi Army militia out of the southern Iraqi city of Basra. The operation was the first major operation to be planned and carried out by the Iraqi Army since the invasion of 2003.

The Iraq Spring Fighting of 2008 (March – May, 2008) was a series of clashes between the Mahdi Army and the Iraqi Army supported by coalition forces, in southern Iraq and Baghdad, that began with an Iraqi offensive in Basra. The fighting followed a lull in the civil war in Iraq and was the most serious crisis since October 2007.


You FAIL utterly! You've reinforced your failure.

Sadr was an enemy...US and Coalition forces were killed fighting his army... end of story!

at the start of the Bush war on Iraq this guy was considered an "enemy":





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What you wrote...
 

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Paul Bremer, G.W. Bush's ambassador to the post Sadam Iraq... as his first official duty.. ordered the U.S. military to dismantle the Iraqi Army, presumably with Bush's and his State Department's approval.

The results were catastrophic as it left the country unprotected from roving Sunni and Shi'ite gangs that murdered compatriots and Americans ruthlessly. And left the Americans as the only force for order in the country... leading to thousands of American dead.

It was this vacuum that directly opened the gate for ISIS.. when the Americans left.

The Army when it was restored was done so by the corrupt Malaki government that filled its Officer Corps with clannish and partsan cronies. Of course when faced with a situation that required courage, steadfastness and honour, as in Mosul.. they DESERTED and ran.

This can all be traced to the American decision to invade on the trumped up accusation of the presence and imminent use of weapons of mass destruction. It's all up to GW.. and its led to what will be a fractured Iraq in a prolonged Civil War.. that could last decades.

The Americans seem unable to learn the lesson of history, after getting trounced in Viet Nam.. that Civil Wars have to played out on the national level.. and that nationalism will ultimately trump both ideology and religion.
 
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lone wolf

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I see the seriousness in the situation in the fact Iran is offering to team up with "her enemy" in order to defend "her enemy". Spats between nations is one thing. Hate for people is an entirely different matter.
 

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I don't get the whole suni Sh yte thing , had to do that space for censorship BS.

can someone explain to me the difference.
and do we support either one or both at different times and places.
 

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I see the seriousness in the situation in the fact Iran is offering to team up with "her enemy" in order to defend "her enemy". Spats between nations is one thing. Hate for people is an entirely different matter.

Are you dense?? During the USA occupation, Iran funded terrorism targeting Sunni against Shia, and killing Americans.

The USA and Iran will not be working together. PERIOD!!

Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism.

I don't get the whole suni Sh yte thing , had to do that space for censorship BS.

can someone explain to me the difference.
and do we support either one or both at different times and places.


The Origins Of The Shiite-Sunni Split : Parallels : NPR
 

lone wolf

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Are you dense?? During the USA occupation, Iran funded terrorism targeting Sunni against Shia, and killing Americans.

The USA and Iran will not be working together. PERIOD!!

Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism.




The Origins Of The Shiite-Sunni Split : Parallels : NPR
Are you an idiot or can you not read ... or did I make you have to lick your balls for a fight. Screw off and fantacize your greatness with porno, troll
 

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Remember all those people who gathered at the gates in Syria promising a new
government that would set the people free? At one point most of the world was
considering giving them arms to bring down the government.
I wonder why? The Syrians who are educated know all too well what this group
was up to. In Syria the even the Christians support the government of the day.
Oh if we could only have Saddam back. The west has made a huge mess of this
both Bush and Obama and the reason is they look at this from a western position.
These are not modern civil constitutional people they are tribal the same way they
have been for centuries. This part of the world has never evolved into a modern
civil society.
Only now is the west opening one eye and they might even understand these people
declared war on western civilization with the 9/11 attack and we are at war and its
time to understand that.
 

damngrumpy

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We know it doesn't make sense its the Middle East where not much does make
sense. The problem is we try to accommodate insanity because we don't want
to offend them.
Arguing the topic of insanity with idiots will not bring great results because when
it comes to insanity they have much more experience.
As long as they kill each other over there its one thing if we get attacked again
we should set aside all this international court crap and show them what we are
really capable of. Is that insanity, yes likely but at least it would be a response
 

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Eagle,

You FAIL utterly! You've reinforced your failure.

Sadr was an enemy...US and Coalition forces were killed fighting his army... end of story!



Again, read your own link: ''Created by Muqtada al-Sadr and a small faction of Shi'ites, the Mahdi Army began as a group of roughly 500 seminary students connected with Muqtada al-Sadr in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, formerly known as Saddam City. The group moved in to fill the security vacuum in Sadr City and in a string of southern Iraqi cities following the fall of Baghdad to U.S-led coalition forces on April 9, 2003. The group was involved in dispensing aid to Iraqis and provided security in the Shi'ite slums from looters. Gradually, the militia grew and al-Sadr formalized it in June 2003.[3] The Mahdi Army grew into a sizable force of up to 10,000 who even operated what amounted to a shadow government in some areas.''

Then this happened: ''Sadr's position changed dramatically, however, by the beginning of April 2004. Following the CLOSURE of the Sadr-owned newspaper al-Hawza and the ARREST of one of his senior aides, Sadr gave an unusually heated sermon to his followers on April 2.''


When your hero Bush invaded it left Shiia vulnerable to attacks and this is what stimulated them to unite. Initially, it was only a security force for Shiia - then your hero Bush and his stooges attacked it. That's when the Mahdi became militant. As with the attack on Saddam, it was your hero who threw the first shot and they responded in kind. Your own link shows it.


Yet, another right wing apologist FAIL.
 

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Again, read your own link: ''Created by Muqtada al-Sadr and a small faction of Shi'ites, the Mahdi Army began as a group of roughly 500 seminary students connected with Muqtada al-Sadr in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, formerly known as Saddam City. The group moved in to fill the security vacuum in Sadr City and in a string of southern Iraqi cities following the fall of Baghdad to U.S-led coalition forces on April 9, 2003. The group was involved in dispensing aid to Iraqis and provided security in the Shi'ite slums from looters. Gradually, the militia grew and al-Sadr formalized it in June 2003.[3] The Mahdi Army grew into a sizable force of up to 10,000 who even operated what amounted to a shadow government in some areas.''

Then this happened: ''Sadr's position changed dramatically, however, by the beginning of April 2004. Following the CLOSURE of the Sadr-owned newspaper al-Hawza and the ARREST of one of his senior aides, Sadr gave an unusually heated sermon to his followers on April 2.''


When your hero Bush invaded it left Shiia vulnerable to attacks and this is what stimulated them to unite. Initially, it was only a security force for Shiia - then your hero Bush and his stooges attacked it. That's when the Mahdi became militant. As with the attack on Saddam, it was your hero who threw the first shot and they responded in kind. Your own link shows it.


Yet, another right wing apologist FAIL.

All this because you were wrong.

Sadr and his army were an enemy of the US and Coalition as shown.

Gopher FAIL

I don't get the whole suni Sh yte thing , had to do that space for censorship BS.

can someone explain to me the difference.
and do we support either one or both at different times and places.

Sunni and Shia don't like each other. With regards to religion one side says the other is wrong and the other says the other is wrong.

And yes... we support one side or the other depending on the day.
 

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We know it doesn't make sense its the Middle East where not much does make
sense. The problem is we try to accommodate insanity because we don't want
to offend them.
Arguing the topic of insanity with idiots will not bring great results because when
it comes to insanity they have much more experience.
As long as they kill each other over there its one thing if we get attacked again
we should set aside all this international court crap and show them what we are
really capable of. Is that insanity, yes likely but at least it would be a response

When did we, and who is we, get attacked? And please don't mentioned the False Flagged Towers of Babble.

All this because you were wrong.

Sadr and his army were an enemy of the US and Coalition as shown.

Gopher FAIL



Sunni and Shia don't like each other. With regards to religion one side says the other is wrong and the other says the other is wrong.

And yes... we support one side or the other depending on the day.

The only side you don't support is the American taxpayer. Everybody else gets lots of attention.
 

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Find them all real jobs.

Other than not being able to do back flips into a 10 m flying side kick while doing flashy sabre moves this is all the same as an anima I watched sitting beside some kid on a flight.

I wanna see back flips into a 10 m flying side kick while doing flashy sabre moves on the news to make this a lot more cool.
 

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Right after Ted Cruz, and hopefully his run for President..

BTW, Goober, you off your meds again.. ;)

No being old I have them all set up by he pharmacist.

at the start of the Bush war on Iraq this guy was considered an "enemy":








Now his Medhi army is considered an ally in the fight against Sunni radicals.


War makes strange bedfellows.

The current Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sent Iraqi troops against his Mehdi army in 2008 or so.
 

gopher

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Goober; said:
The current Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sent Iraqi troops against his Mehdi army in 2008 or so.




Exactly. Contrary to Eagle's beliefs, he was not a threat but was, instead, attacked. That is why his followers armed and counter attacked.
 

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Until the PM has a policy that does not target Sunni and Kurds, not much use in doing anything.
I have a feeling he (PM) will be replaced.

The Kurds have made their move on Kirkuk. I don't think they will ever return to the status quo ante.

I don't think the Iraqi govt. has the ability to retake the areas of northern and western Iraq seized by ISIS. But the Iranians should be able to help the Shiites retain the Shia dominated areas of Iraq. So I see a de facto partition of the country as the most likely outcome.