Military analyst at CNN: Daash encircling Baghdad and seeks to make it “the capital of the caliphate!”
Military analyst at CNN: Daash encircling Baghdad and seeks to make it “the capital of the caliphate!”
13-10-2014 12:41 AM
Warned Colonel retired American, Rick Francona, the risk of reducing the capabilities of the organization of the so-called Islamic state known media B’daash, saying that the organization is seeking to encircle the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and drop it in the end to be the ‘capital of succession’, adding that he had already imposed a cordon around the city while Iraqi army proved it ‘ineffective’.
He described Francona, a military analyst at CNN , the situation in Iraq as’ very serious’, adding: ‘We hope that the help of air strikes to stop the attack Daash so recovers the Iraqi army breath and retrieves the cities and towns that have lost, but the Air Force did not help has continued to organize control of the cities . ‘
He continued by saying Francona, in an interview with CNN that these developments mean that people are noticing that the Iraqi army ‘ineffective’.
When asked if the world already knows the capabilities of Daash for the possibility of attacking the big city like Baghdad replies the officer retired American saying: ‘We continue to underestimate the capabilities of Daash and the extent of its effectiveness, and its elements are trying to besiege the city, and they Atoqunha from the south and the north and west, although they may face some difficulties with progress towards the east, where a Shiite majority inhabiting ‘.
He added: ‘This is the way in which the organization, laying siege to cities and then execute suicide attacks and after the intrusion and control, has already begun to suicide bombings and Baghdad will be a target for them because they assumed the capital of the caliphate that they want to set up’.
And about the American attitude to be taken towards these developments, said Francona: ‘We can not let them control over all of this land, they have a de facto state and has a large number of those who were part of the former Ba’athist regime, and they know how to manage things as they try to create a state and control over vast lands and it seems they are doing a good job at this level ‘(Bgesb he put it).
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