Wall Street: the rapid progress in Tikrit tasked popular crowd .. and leaders are re-evaluating losses

Wall Street: the rapid progress in Tikrit tasked popular crowd .. and leaders are re-evaluating losses

22/03/2015 (00:01 pm)

Translation: Ahmed Alaa

Battle of the restoration of the city of Tikrit, gunmen “Daash” which was launched on March 2 this, slowed down a bit as it approaches its third week, which hit the Sunni community there some kind of frustration after the military operations that were paid gunmen “Daash” to stop outside the cities.
Iraqi officials, who had confirmed earlier that the military success of the process and reach down to this stage thanks to subsidized units of the popular crowd, which had the greatest weight in the restoration of a few Bldat.aljnod and fighters of the popular crowd security forces, did not hide the difficulties they faced in the major areas of the city, Understanding pointed to their inability to root out extremist organization of these cities because of good immunization them by drawing on the booby-trapping homes and planting mines on both sides of the roads as well as the spread of snipers and suicide bombers.
There is no doubt that the emergence of these obstacles, enhance frustration which leads to the question is an important factor which is, do you that the Iraqi security forces are capable of ending the battle in their favor and pay the extremist group to the outside? This also leads to another question the most important which is, how will the shape and features of the battle in Mosul, in the event of dependence on the ability of the security forces only?
leaders of the popular crowd, for their part, announced earlier, they do not need a US air support in the military blow against the militants, “Daash “However, after this sudden stop, increasing the need for air power and weapons, which has the primary role in the coverage of ground forces. He insists Iraqi security officials, to give one justification after the other on the reasons for the cessation of hostilities, which sparked a major American questions.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, met with his military commanders last week, and explained the timetable for the start of the new attack, they most likely, according to leaks from the meeting room, discussed How the arrival of reinforcements awaited military pieces in addition to this pause is a chance to count the dead and avoid casualties sealed the moment, according to the leaks.
Marwan mighty, the head of the local council before me in Salah al-Din, said that the battle did not stop the way they promoted in the media, as evidenced by that there are clashes with militants and talk about stopping completely is ridiculous, justified, that what is happening is that the military commanders are re-evaluating the situation and studying how to break into the city and go out less casualties from them.
He said Sheikh mighty that the militants “Daash”, planted about 6,500 explosive device In Tikrit, almost, and this the only way to protect them from fire of the security forces as well as the majority of them are still holed up in the presidential shortcomings of the dictator Saddam Hussein, as he put it.
mighty admitted that the battle has diminished in the third week of what it was in the previous two weeks, where he was fighting in the the first period on a completely peak, indicating the same time, that these successes also are part of the problem, because the rapid progress that has happened onset tasked fighters, leaving them unprepared for the final attack and last, which they see as too hard.
He attributed the tremendous slowdown in the security forces and the popular crowd, for lack of explosives experts with extensive experience to defuse the thousands of roadside bombs planted by Jhadio organization since last summer.
The Wall Street Journal has been published in a previous report, citing the popular crowd fighters, that the success of their progress was due to the conduct of drones that reveal the cameras jihadists sites regulation and sensor improvised explosive devices that were holed up militants “Daash”, as well as the role of Sunni fighters from tribes who provided good intelligence about their region, geographical.
sees American military to retreat militants “Daash” of Tikrit, and they fled, perhaps understand that enhance the capabilities of the organization in Mosul, especially as the process of restoring the city will begin in the spring, according to Washington’s latest remarks. It is said that the organization “Daash”, dominated the vast expanses of Iraq in its offensive sweeping through last summer, and since then targeted “Daash” religious sects such as the Shiites, Sunnis and Christians, especially Yazidis who settle the mountains of northwest Iraq.
In a report published last week, urged Rights International Criminal Court to prosecute “Daash” to commit genocide against the Yazidis rights organization, as the document on interviews with more than 100 personalities from the victims, the report said, that “Islamic state” is still holding 3000 Yazidi woman.

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