الملف/ الانبار: قال عضو مجلس صحوة الأنبار جبير رشيد نايف إن منفذي
تفجير وقع في مدينة الموصل العراقية الاربعاء الماضي ينتمون إلى جماعة من
المقاتلين الأجانب يعملون تحت إمرة سيف الاسلام القذافي نجل الزعيم
الليبي. وأضاف نايف وهو عقيد في شرطة الأنبار في حديث مع وكالات الأنباء
أن مجلس الصحوة حذر القوات الاميركية من أن الجماعة التي تعرف باسم "سرية
سيف الدين" وتضم نحو 150 مقاتلا عراقيا وأجنبيا، ربما دخلت الى الموصل عن
طريق الحدود السورية قبل ثلاثة أشهر. وأشار نايف إلى أنهم تسللوا عبر
الحدود السورية إلى الموصل واتخذوا مواقع لهم داخل المدينة وبدأوا في شن
سلسلة من الهجمات بالسيارات الملغومة وغيرها من العمليات الارهابية، على
حد وصفه. ولم يصدر أي تعليق من القوات الأميركية على هذا التحذير.
المصدر: الملف
- الجارديان
راجع ترجمة "الراصد السياسي لمقال
الجارديان بالخصوص
Claim Gadhafi Son Linked to
Iraq Attack
Saturday January 26, 2008 2:16 PM
By MUHEIDDIN
RASHAD
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD (AP) - A devastating
explosion in northern Iraq was spearheaded by foreign fighters under
the sponsorship of Seif al-Islam Gadhafi,
son of the Libyan leader, a security chief for Sunni tribesmen who
rose up against al-Qaida in Iraq said Saturday.
Col. Jubair Rashid Naief, who
also is a police official in Anbar province, said the Anbar Awakening
Council had alerted the U.S. military to the possible arrival in the
northern city of Mosul of the Seifaddin Regiment, made up of about 150
foreign and Iraqi fighters, as long as three months ago.
The U.S. military did not
immediately respond to an e-mail request for infoment about Naief's
claim.
``They crossed the Syrian
border nearest to Mosul within the last two to three months. Since
then, they have taken up positions in the city and begun blowing up
cars and launching other terror operations,'' Naief told The
Associated Press.
The so-called Anbar Awakening
Council is a grouping of Sunni tribes in the western province that
last year turned against al-Qaida and began working with U.S. forces.
The council is credited with the sharp drop in violence in the former
insurgent redoubt.
The movement has since been
spread by Americans through Baghdad and surrounding districts. That
and the introduction of 30,000 additional U.S. troops by mid-2007 are
seen as the main factors in the recent decline in violence in the
country.
Naief did not explain why the
younger Gadhafi would be sponsoring the
group of fighters. Seif Gadhafi, however,
was quoted by the Austrian Press Agency last year as warning Europeans
against more attacks by radical Islamists.
``The only solution to
contain radicalism is the rapid departure of Western troops from Iraq
as well as Afghanistan, and a solution to the Palestinian question,''
Gadhafi was quoted as saying.
Touted as a reformer,
36-year-old Gadhafi has increasingly been
sharing his father's spotlight and reaching out to the West to soften
Libya's image and return it to the international mainstream. He has no
official government post, but many see him as the man most likely to
take power in the North African country when his father steps down or
dies.
The massive explosion in
Mosul on Wednesday and the suicide attack assassination of a top
police official the next day have prompted obvious concern among
Iraq's leaders.
On Friday, the government
said it would dispatch several thousand more security forces to Mosul
in a ``decisive'' bid to drive al-Qaida in Iraq from its last major
stronghold.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
gave no details on troop strength or timing, but his announcement
added to growing signs that Mosul could represent a pivotal showdown
with insurgents chased north by U.S.-led offensives.
``Today, our troops started
moving toward Mosul ... and the fight there will be decisive,'' al-Maliki
said during a speech in the Shiite holy city of Karbala.
The challenge, however, is
whether the Iraqi forces have the firepower and training to lead an
offensive into Iraq's third-largest city. The U.S. military is
relatively thin across northern Iraq and has signaled no immediate
plans to shift troops from key zones in and around Baghdad.
Mosul is now considered the
main logistical hub for al-Qaida in Iraq because of its size and
location - sitting at crossroads between Baghdad, Syria, Turkey and
Iran. Many extremists fled north as U.S.-led forces began gaining
ground in former insurgent strongholds last year, aided by Sunni
tribes that rose up against al-Qaida and its backers.
Interior Ministry spokesman
Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf told The Associated Press that 3,000
police were being sent to the Mosul region to augment the understaffed
force.
Ninevah province, whose
capital is Mosul, has about 18,000 policemen. But only about 3,000 of
those operate in the city of nearly 2 million, according to police
spokesman Saeed al-Jubouri.
A Defense Ministry official
said several thousand Iraqi soldiers would be moved from Baghdad and
Anbar province. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the
information is sensitive.
``We have asked the prime
minister to send us fresh units because we cannot defeat the
terrorists with the weak units we have now in the city,'' Maj. Gen.
Riyad Jalal, a senior Iraqi officer in the Mosul area. ``We need new
equipment and stronger weapons because most of our security members
have only rifles.''
Mosul, 225 miles northwest of
Baghdad, has beinfoe a fulcrum on two fronts.
First the United States is
trying to keep Iraqi security forces in the lead as a major test of
Washington's long-range plans, which seek to keep a smaller American
force in Iraq as backup for local soldiers and police.
Second, U.S. officials say
Mosul has beinfoe the only remaining major city in Iraq where al-Qaida
is able to operate with any freedom. Major centers of al-Qaida
activity in the past - including the western Anbar province, Baghdad
and Baqouba north of the capital - no longer offer easy refuge.
Al-Maliki announced
reinforcements for Mosul two days after an abandoned apartment
building, believed to be used as a bomb-making factory, was blown
apart as the Iraqi army was investigating tips about a weapons cache.
At least 34 people were
killed and 224 wounded when the blast tore through surrounding houses
in the Zanjili neighborhood, a poverty-ridden district on the west
bank of the Tigris River. No soldiers were reported killed.
A suicide bomber then killed
a police chief and two other officers Thursday as they toured the
devastation. Residents taunted the chief and pelted him with rocks
moments before he was killed.
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