Well my friends on Mosul, perhaps you should speak to your government which seems hell bent on having the U.S. completely out of Iraq.
Officials in Iraq's third largest city, Mosul, have warned the terrorists will not be defeated until the border is secured.
Dureid Kashmula, the provincial governor, said: "One of the reasons that al-Qaeda is so strong here when security is improving across Iraq is that the terrorists can come across the border.
Khosro Goran, the vice-governor, said: "We have an open border with Syria and our neighbours are actively encouraging the terrorists.
An American raid on a Syrian compound it believed was housing al-Qaeda operatives last month triggered calls for repeated sweeps beyond Iraq's western borders.
An intelligence officer in Mosul said leading lieutenants of the late dictator Saddam Hussein and Islamists were directing attacks in Mosul from Syria.
The debilitating influence of the insurgent factions has sapped confidence within the security forces operating in the city, according to Captain Nabeel Mutlak, a policeman in Mosul since 1996.
Terrorist penetration of all ranks is so pervasive that his off-duty colleagues are regularly assassinated in cold blood, mostly in the street or at markets when shopping with their families.
"They just shoot and run. Sometimes they use silencers even though they are in a crowded place," he said. "But catching them is impossible because mostly they are based outside the city, even outside the country.
"They know how to identify their victims because every neighbourhood has cells that find out who is working for the police, pass the information on and identify the victims. It's impossible to stop."
Posts
0 comments:
Post a Comment