A source in the Defense announces stop forces from attacking Tikrit for tactical reasons
A source in the Defense announces stop forces from attacking Tikrit for tactical reasons
07-03-2015 06:23 PM
Announced a military and local sources, on Saturday, stopping progress attacking forces on the city of Tikrit, for reasons described B’altkticah ‘, after reaching the third phase of the plan successfully, and to give a break to its troops after six days of the start of the fighting there, according to the new Arab news website.
An official in the Ministry of Defense, an unnamed location, that ‘stop progress toward the city came within contexts previously elaborated plan, which was to achieve a clear progress, through the completion of the first three stages, marked by cutting off supply lines for organizing Daash, through Mosul, Anbar and Kirkuk, and then dismantling enemy defenses front, represented by mines surrounding the city fields, and finally the third phase of the occupation of advanced positions from the vicinity of the city. ”
He noted the military official, to ‘stop military operations temporarily, and came to give an opportunity for the attacking forces to take a break, leaving the artillery overstretch forces (Daash) within the city to another moment before the attack ‘, expected to’ combat operations resume in the next 24 hours, the pace up ‘.
In a related development, detection, Sheikh Mohammed al-Tikriti, the tribal province of Salahuddin, that ‘artillery shelling has led to considerable destruction in the city , without the bother of innocent people or the infrastructure of the lives’.
He said al-Tikriti, according to the same site, said: ‘guns pounded Tikrit, including at least 200 shell, yesterday morning, at random and is thoughtful, as if the whole city is a legitimate her goals.’
explained Al-Tikriti, the ‘Daash fighters are in the vicinity of the city only, but defender bombed the entire city, even water and power plants, mosques and homes, and now some of the neighborhoods especially in the eastern ruins obsolete’.
He stressed that ‘hundreds of families stuck inside the city and trying to escape, but to no avail. ”
In the same context, a student leader of the ‘Iraqi Alliance of Independent’, a farmer thanks, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, to clarify the nature of the presence of Iranians in Tikrit.
Shukri said, that: ‘entry Iran military bombardment of Iraqi cities, must be explained the Prime Minister himself, we are facing a real threat to national meat, and on the verge of another threat of sectarian war large because of Iran. ”
He added that the ‘Abadi has not reached the House of Representatives, or any of the pillars of the government on the Iranian military intervention, and this in itself is contrary to the Constitution, and it be frank with Iraqis in whether it is to ask for it, or they entered against his will. ”
At the field level, a doctor at Tikrit General Hospital, said: ‘nine civilians were killed and 12 others last night, the impact of the bombing of the city.’
explained The doctor, that ‘all the victims were civilians, were killed by mortar and artillery, which entered their homes, but the gunmen do not bring their dead being buried directly we do not know their number.’
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