ISIS attempted to drown Baghdad in Tigris River says Baghdad Operations Chief

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ISIS attempted to drown Baghdad in Tigris River says Baghdad Operations Chief
October 30, 2014 by Amre Sarhan


Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) On Thursday, Baghdad Operations Command announced it foiled an attempt to drown the capital city of Baghdad in Tigris River.

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Baghdad Operations Chief, Gen. Officer Abdel Amir al-Shamri

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) On Thursday, Baghdad Operations Command announced it foiled an attempt to drown the capital city of Baghdad in Tigris River.

 

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Iraqis wantin' to high-tail it an' run - again...

US Commanders Talk Iraqis out of Pulling Troops Back to Baghdad
May 18, 2016 | U.S. commanders talked the Iraqi government out of pulling troops from the field to defend Baghdad against suicide attacks coming from ISIS-held Fallujah and other militant strong points in Anbar province, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.

"As of today, we have not seen the Iraqi government redeploying troops to Baghdad," Army Col. Steve Warren said. "There was some discussion of it but they changed their minds," he said in a possible reflection of growing friction between the U.S. and Iraqi military and political officials on the U.S. plan to focus resources on retaking northwestern Mosul. Army Gen. Joseph Votel, head of U.S. Central Command, also said the Baghdad attacks posed a threat to the overall U.S. strategy. "If this is not addressed quickly, it could cause [the Baghdad government] to have to take action to divert forces and divert their political focus on that, as opposed to things like Mosul or finishing up their activities out in Anbar," Votel told CNN.

Currently, about half of the Iraqi security forces are committed to the defense and policing of Baghdad, Warren said, but Iraqi officials told U.S. advisers in a recent meeting that they needed more troops in the capital to stop ISIS truck and car bomb attacks that have centered on Shia neighborhoods. A pullback to Baghdad would go against the U.S. plan to "accelerate" offensives in the Tigris and Euphrates River valleys with the ultimate goal of retaking Mosul, the main ISIS stronghold in Iraq.

In the meeting with the Iraqi officials, "we recommended to them that the forces they had earmarked to fighting ISIL in the field remain in the field," Warren said, using another acronym for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. "That was the recommendation we made to them. They took it," he, a spokesman for Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, said in a video briefing from Baghdad to the Pentagon. Warren said the Iraqis had argued for repositioning forces but "we said, 'Hey, we think you ought to keep the forces out in the field.' That's what they ended up doing." Although the Iraqis appeared to be having second thoughts about the strategy, "we are undeterred," Warren said.

The already struggling Baghdad government of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has been challenged again by the wave of suicide attacks claimed by ISIS in the past week that have killed at least 200 in Baghdad, according to the Associated Press. A suicide bombing on Tuesday in a marketplace in the northern, mainly Shia district of al-Shaab killed 38 people and wounded over 70, while a car bomb in the nearby Sadr City neighborhood left at least 19 more dead and 17 wounded, Reuters reported. On April 30, followers of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr stormed Parliament in Baghdad's "Green Zone" to protest the lack of security in Baghdad and the failure of the Abadi government to root out corruption.

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