The Last Crusade

U.S. WITHDRAWS FROM IRAQ

BLOODBATH IN THE WORKS

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Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.

The Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella organization of Iraqi terrorist groups, vows to kill all 70,000 Iraqis who have been employed by the United States during the past seven years.

The announcement was made in a document published by the organization in Fallujah.

The document states that the killing of the employees “cannot be accomplished within one or two months,” but will require “continuous efforts.”

The group already claims responsibility for killing thousands of “traitors” and “agents of the United States” within the past four years, including an attack on April 4 in Baghdad that killed 42 people and injured 224.

The announcement was published this week in the midst of the deployment by the U.S. military of half of its 100,000 troops in Iraq. This process is expected to be completed by the end of August Lt. General William Webster, who commands the 3rd Army, says that the undertaking is monumental. “Hannibal trying to move over the Alps,” he maintains, “had a tremendous logistics burden, but it was nothing like the complexity we are dealing with now.”

Tens of thousands of troops have been reassigned to the deployment effort, which will dismantle hundreds of bases in the coming months.

The outcome of the seven year war remains in doubt, since the country is now ruled by sharia law and a network of Shiite mullahs who remain hostile to the United States and its allies.

The only certainties is the coming mass execution of the “traitors” and a civil war between the ruling Shiites and the Sunni terror groups.

When British forces drew down from southern Iraq just two years ago, militias conducted a systematic manhunt for their former Iraqi employees. Seventeen interpreters were publicly executed in a single massacre; their bodies were dumped throughout the streets of Basra.

The terrorist groups who comprise the Islamic State of Iraq include Mujahideen Shura Council, Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Jeish al-Fatiheen, Jund al-Sahaba, Katbiyan Ansar Al-Tawhid wal Sunnah, Jeish al-Taiifa al-Mansoura, etc, and other Sunni clans. The umbrella organization aims to establish a caliphate in the Sunni dominated regions of Iraq.

In a related matter, former President George W. Bush and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair were labeled “war criminals” for launching the invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein at the Cannes Film Festival by British director Ken Loach.

“We have to keep pursuing Blair, Bush and the others until we have them in the dock,” Mr. Loach said as he arrived for a red carpet premiere of his film “Route Irish” which deals with the murky world of private security contractors in Iraq.

His remarks prompted a prolonged ovation
“It’s certainly true that the people who started the war, who are war criminals, have not been called to account,” Mr. Loach added.

WAR PRODUCED 600,000 CHRISTIAN REFUGEES

ETHNIC CLEANSING OF ALL NON MUSLIMS UNDERWAY

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Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.

Pre-election violence in Iraq – - including the beheadings of members of a Shiite family and the murders of three Sunni election candidates – - will not derail the U.S. military plans to withdraw combat forces from the country this year, Pentagon officials said.

The security situation in Iraq remains tense ahead of Sunday’s parliamentary vote.

More than 30 people were killed in a triple suicide bombing Wednesday in Baquba and several members of the Iraqi security force were killed Thursday during early voting.

Geoff Morrell, a spokesman for the U.S. Defense Department, says U.S. military plans in Iraq remain on schedule despite the violence and the threats for increased attacks on civilians.

“Neither this attack nor any of the previous attempts to derail the electoral process and to destabilize the government have been or will be successful, nor do we anticipate that it will derail our responsible drawdown of forces in Iraq,” Mr. Morrell insists.

The U.S. military has around 96,000 soldiers in Iraq who will stay on duty in the weeks after March 7 elections. By September 1, however, the troop level will be reduced to 50,000.

Iraqis will head to the polls Sunday for the third time since U.S.-led forces overthrew Saddam Hussein in 2003.

The Pentagon announced plans in February to change the name of the mission in Iraq from Operation Iraqi Freedom to Operation New Dawn to reflect a shifting strategy for the U.S. military.

The New Dawn is far from the dawn the U.S. envisioned when in March 2003, when the Bush Administration inaugurated the invasion of Iraq with plans to implant a secular democracy to replace the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Iraq has been transformed into an Islamic republic. Article 2, Section A, of the Iraqi Constitution states: “No law that contradicts the established provisions of Islam may be established.”

The U.S. invasion produced another unexpected result: the expulsion of over 600,000 Christians from the country where they were protected by Hussein, and ethnic cleansing which has resulted in the slaughter of 2,000 more Christians.

The cost of the U.S. establishment of an Islamic regime in Iraq is expected to exceed $900 billion by September.

As of February 18, 4,379 US soldiers have been killed in the conflict, and 31,669 have been seriously wounded.