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mudah yang dengan pemberontak telah menguasai bandar-bandar utama di Iraq
mencadangkan bekas pegawai tentera dan lain-lain mungkin telah bergabung dengan
Golongan ini untuk menyasarkan kerajaan Syiah yang diterajui Perdana Menteri
Nouri al-Maliki, Edmund Ghareeb memberitahu RT.
"Apa
juga membuat ini menarik dan apa yang menimbulkan banyak soalan tentang apa
yang berlaku sekarang ialah bahawa terdapat banyak daya juang di bawah nama
ISIS (Negara Islam Iraq dan Levant)," kata Ghareeb, seorang profesor di
Universiti Amerika, sambil menambah bahawa banyak kumpulan mempunyai musuh yang
sama dgn Maliki.
Beliau
menambah bahawa mungkin ada "pegawai Iraq, yang berasal dari tentera
Saddam Hussein, yang datang dari kawasan Tikrit dan kawasan Mosul, dan mungkin
yang menerangkan [bagaimana] taktik tentera yang digunakan, kerana ini sangat
berkesan. Terdapat perancangan profesional di sini."
RT: Adakah adil untuk mengatakan, sebagai
Presiden Barack Obama telah berkata, bahawa Iraq semata-mata bertanggungjawab
bagi keadaan keselamatan sendiri?
Edmund Ghareeb: Jelas apa yg berlaku di Iraq adalah satu
kejutan kpd pentadbiran [Obama], kerana saya pasti bahawa, mungkin, ia
adalah satu kejutan kepada kerajaan Iraq juga.
Kepantasan
dengan yang kuasa-kuasa ini dapat memajukan dan mengambil alih bandar seperti
Mosul menimbulkan banyak soalan mengenai tentera Iraq, yang telah dilatih, ‘supposedly’,
oleh Amerika Syarikat.
Mereka,
sudah tentu, tidak mempunyai senjata yang canggih dari segi kapal terbang atau
peluru berpandu. Tetapi ini adalah tentera di mana $ 25 billion telah
dibelanjakan untuk membantu menyediakannya untuk tugas masa depan, untuk
membantu melindungi kerajaan Iraq, dan penduduk Iraq.
Tetapi
saya fikir apa yang berlaku di sini adalah bahawa ini menimbulkan semua soalan
tentang cara kerajaan Amerika Syarikat sedang meninjau keadaan ini, dan sudah
tentu, presiden masih mempunyai persepsi legasi beliau sendiri.
Presiden
Obama, semasa beliau menjadi calon untuk jawatan presiden, berjanji untuk
keluar dari Iraq. Dia tidak mahu untuk kembali ke Iraq. Pada masa yang sama,
ini adalah keadaan yang kompleks dan sukar, dan dia tidak boleh kekal sama
sekali tidak berhubung dengan keadaan ini.
Itulah
sebabnya kita melihat sambutan ini, penilaian ini berhati-hati apa yang Amerika
Syarikat boleh melakukan atau perlu lakukan. Sebaliknya, Presiden telah
mengambil kira di atas negara realiti politik.
RT: Jika tentera Iraq dibiarkan sesuka mereka,
mereka benar2 boleh mempertahankan Iraq dari serangan ini?
Edmund Ghareeb: Dalam satu tangan, anda mempunyai tentera
yang mempunyai tempat di antara 250,000 dan 300,000 lelaki. Anda mempunyai
pasukan keselamatan yang dekat dengan 900,000. Supaya hendaklah mencukupi untuk
melindungi Baghdad dan melindungi beberapa bandar-bandar, walaupun terhadap
serangan beberapa ribu atau seratus, dalam beberapa kes, pejuang.
Sudah
tentu negara Islam Iraq dan Levant (ISIS) berpengalaman, ia terdiri daripada
banyak pejuang keras. Apa juga membuat ini menarik dan apa yang menimbulkan
banyak soalan tentang apa yang berlaku sekarang ialah bahawa terdapat banyak
daya juang di bawah nama ISIS.
Apa
yang kita lihat ialah pejuang berjuang di bawah panji-panji ISIS, dan pada masa
yang sama, ia seolah-olah terdapat kumpulan-kumpulan lain. Anda mempunyai
kuasa-kuasa bekas naib presiden Iraq, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, yang dari Naqshbandi,
perintah Sufi.
Anda memdapati pegawai-pegawai Iraq yang
berasal dari tentera Saddam Hussein, yang datang dari kawasan Tikrit dan
kawasan Mosul, dan mungkin yang menerangkan [bagaimana] taktik tentera
digunakan, kerana ini sangat berkesan.
Terdapat
perancangan profesional di sini. Juga, Baathists, bekas Baathists, mungkin juga
telah terlibat, dan juga suku kaum. Orang-orang ini mengambil pendirian bersama
terhadap Perdana Menteri Maliki.
Mereka
semua sedang menentang Maliki. Pada masa yang sama, saya tidak fikir
kumpulan-kumpulan ini mempunyai objektif yang sama. Sebagai contoh, ISIS mahu
mempunyai pemerintahan khalifah Islam.
Saya
tidak fikir ini adalah semestinya dikongsi oleh beberapa kumpulan Sufi, dan ia
tidak akan dikongsi oleh bekas pegawai-pegawai tentera Iraq, atau Parti Baath.
Walau bagaimanapun, sekarang, mereka boleh bekerja bersama-sama terhadap
Maliki.
Bagi
Keadaan ini juga akan turun di Baghdad, saya tidak fikir ia akan mudah untuk
kuasa ini untuk mengambil alih Baghdad, terutamanya jika ada pembelaan.
Demografi Baghdad berubah sejak beberapa tahun yang lalu, dan ia adalah sebuah
bandar yang kebanyakannya majoriti Syiah.
Pada
masa yg sama, terdapat kuasa-kuasa profesional dan elit yg mempertahankan
Baghdad, jadi ia tidak akan mudah. Walau bagaimanapun, hakikatnya ialah
kuasa-kuasa ini bergerak.
Mereka
telah tawan Mosul dan, dilaporkan, Tikrit - walaupun terdapat soalan tentang
bahagian-bahagian itu - dan Baiji, yg merupakan sebuah bandar yg sangat
penting di mana anda mempunyai kemudahan minyak di sana. Mereka mengambil
bandar-bandar, dan itulah yang sangat penting.
'MULTIPLE
GROUPs may be JOINING ISIS jihadists
in
fight Against IRAQi GOVT' . . .
The
relative ease with which insurgents have taken control of major cities in Iraq
suggests former military officers and others may have joined forces with
jihadists to target Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shiite-led government,
Edmund Ghareeb told RT.
"What
also makes this interesting and what raises a lot of questions about what's
going on is that there are many forces fighting under the name of ISIS (the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant)," said Ghareeb, a professor at
American University, adding that the many groups have a common enemy in Maliki.
He
added that there could be "Iraqi officers, who are from Saddam Hussein's
army, who come from the Tikrit area and the Mosul area, and probably that
explains [how] military tactics were used, because these were very effective.
There was professional planning here."
RT: Is it fair to say, as President Barack
Obama has said, that Iraq is solely responsible for its own security situation?
Edmund Ghareeb: Clearly what's going on in Iraq was a
surprise to the [Obama] administration, as I'm sure that, probably, it was a
surprise to the Iraqi government as well.
The
rapidity with which these forces are able to advance and take over a city like
Mosul raises a lot of questions about the Iraqi army, which was trained,
supposedly, by the United States.
They,
of course, didn't have very sophisticated weapons in terms of airplanes or
missiles. But this is an army where $25 billion was spent to help prepare it
for future duties, to help protect Iraq's government, and the population of
Iraq.
But
I think what is happening here is that this all raises questions about the way
the US government is looking at this situation, and, of course, the president
still has his perception of his own legacy.
President
Obama, when he was a candidate for the presidency, promised to get out of Iraq.
He does not want to return to Iraq. At the same time, this is a complex and
difficult situation, and he cannot remain totally out of touch with this
situation.
That's
why we're seeing this response, this careful evaluation of what the US could do
or should do. On the other hand, the president has taken into account the
political realities on the ground.
RT: If the Iraqi army is left to their own
devices, can they really defend Iraq from this onslaught?
Edmund Ghareeb: On the one hand, you have an army that has
somewhere between 250,000 and 300,000 men. You have security forces that are
close to 900,000.
So
that should be sufficient to protect Baghdad and to protect some of the cities,
even against the onslaught of several thousand or hundred, in some cases,
fighters.
Of
course the Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) is experienced, it's
composed of many hardened fighters. What also makes this interesting and what
raises a lot of questions about what's going on is that there are many forces
fighting under the name of ISIS.
What
we are seeing is that the fighters are fighting under the banner of ISIS, and
at the same time, it seems there are other groups. You have the forces of the
former vice president of Iraq, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, who is of the
Naqshbandi, the Sufi order.
You
have Iraqi officers who are from Saddam Hussein's army, who come from the
Tikrit area and the Mosul area, and probably that explains [how] military
tactics were used, because these were very effective.
There
was professional planning here. Also, the Baathists, the former Baathists, may
also have been involved, as well as the tribes. These people have a common
stand against Prime Minister Maliki. They're all opposed to Maliki. At the same
time, I don't think these groups have the same objectives.
For
example, ISIS wants to have an Islamic caliphate. I don't think this is
necessarily shared by some of the Sufi groups, and it wouldn't be shared by the
former Iraqi army officers, or the Baath Party. Nevertheless, right now, they
may be working together against Maliki.
As
for the situation also going down in Baghdad, I don't think it will be easy for
this force to take over Baghdad, particularly if there is a defense. The
demography of Baghdad was changed over the past several years, and it is mostly
a Shiite majority city.
At
the same time, there are professional and elite forces which are defending
Baghdad, so it won't be easy. Nevertheless, the fact is these forces are
moving. They've taken Mosul and, reportedly, Tikrit – though there is a question
about parts of it – and Baiji, which is a very important town where you have
oil facilities there. They are taking the cities, and that's significant.
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IRAQ
blok Twitter, Facebook, YouTube di tengah2 BerKEMBANGnya Ancaman ISIS . .
.
Merebut imej yang diambil
dari video propaganda yang dikeluarkan pada 17 Mac 2014 oleh Negara Islam Iraq
dan Levant (ISIL) 's al-Furqan Media didakwa menunjukkan pejuang ISIL merekrut
sukarelawan di lokasi yang tidak didedahkan di wilayah Anbar (An image grab
taken from a propaganda video released on March 17, 2014 by the Islamic State
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)'s al-Furqan Media allegedly shows ISIL fighters
recruiting volunteers at an undisclosed location in the Anbar province (AFP
Photo)
Kerajaan
Iraq telah menyekat akses ke laman-laman media sosial terkenal seperti Facebook
dan Twitter, dilaporkan untuk menghalang aktiviti militan yang boleh dikaitkan
dengan Al-Qaeda. Sementara itu, ribuan yang mendaftar untuk melawan
pemberontakan jihad di Iraq.
Banyak
laporan media memetik wartawan dan penyokong-internet terbuka berkata bahawa
pengguna internet di Iraq mendapat skrin blok apabila cuba untuk mengakses
laman media sosial dan Google.
Kuwait
News Agency memetik satu ‘cited’ sumber di Kementerian Iraq Komunikasi yang
berkata agensi itu telah diberitahu untuk menyekat akses kepada Facebook,
Twitter dan YouTube, dan juga beberapa laman web lucah.
Sumber
itu tidak menyatakan mengapa tapak telah disekat, tetapi ia dipercayai menjadi
satu langkah untuk menggagalkan militan daripada Negara Islam Iraq dan Levant
(ISIS atau ISIL) untuk menghantar video & gambar-gambar eksploitasi di
kawasan-kawasan utara dan barat negara. Kumpulan itu telah menawan tanah utama
di kawasan-kawasan, termasuk Mosul, bandar yang ke-2 terbesar di Iraq.
Hayder
Hamzoz, pengasas Rangkaian Iraq untuk Media Sosial, perkataan penyebaran blok,
dan Ammar Al Shahbander, Laporan pengarah Iraq bagi Institut Perang dan
Keamanan, ditawarkan screenshot mesej ralat ‘error messages’ yang diterima oleh pengguna di Iraq.
Siber
Arab, seorang internet memantau kebebasan dan latihan keselamatan siber
pembekal di Timur Tengah dan Afrika Utara, mengesahkan ‘confirmed’ dengan Mashable bahawa Facebook, YouTube,
dan Twitter telah terjejas di seluruh Iraq.
Martin
Chulov, melaporkan untuk Guardian, berkata laman web yang semua turun kerana
kerajaan Iraq takut bahawa ISIS akan menggunakan media sosial untuk
"mengatur & menggerakkan."
"Kami
terganggu dengan laporan isu-isu akses di Iraq dan sedang menyiasat," kata
seorang jurucakap Facebook memberitahu Mashable. "Mengehadkan akses kepada
perkhidmatan internet - penting untuk komunikasi dan perdagangan untuk
berjuta-juta orang - adalah perkara yang membimbangkan bagi masyarakat
global."
Twitter
dan YouTube jurucakap berkata syarikat-syarikat mencari ke dalam laporan.
Terdapat
laporan dari pengguna kehilangan akses kepada perkhidmatan pesanan WhatsApp dan
Viber, juga.
Aktivis
Internet juga menegaskan bahawa menyekat sambungan ke pengguna di seluruh Iraq
akan mungkin tidak membantu menyangkal khabar angin ISIS-menye-marakkan
kemenangan mereka sendiri.
Sementara
itu, ribuan orang awam Iraq mendaftar untuk melawan ISIS - Golongan Arab Sunni
yang juga mempunyai kehadiran utama di negara jiran Syria. ISIS telah dipukul
ringan tangan pasukan keselamatan Iraq terlebih dahulu mereka melalui negara,
yang membawa Perdana Menteri Nouri al-Maliki mengumumkan bahawa orang awam akan
bersenjata untuk serangan terhadap militan.
Usaha
sukarela menerima rangsangan daripada kata-kata perangsang dari Grand Ayatollah
Ali al-Sistani, seorang ulama Syiah atas dipuja di seluruh Iraq.
"Warga
yang mampu utk memikul senjata & memerangi pengganas, mempertahankan negara
mereka dan rakyat mereka dan tempat-tempat suci mereka, perlu sukarelawan dan
menyertai pasukan keselamatan untuk mencapai matlamat suci ini," wakil
Sistani mengumumkan untuk ulama.
"Sesiapa
yang mengorbankan pada jalan mempertahankan negaranya dan keluarganya dan
penghormatan beliau akan mati syahid," katanya.
IRAQ
blocks Twitter, Facebook, YouTube amid
growing ISIS THREAT . . .
The
Iraqi government has blocked access to top social media sites like Facebook and
Twitter, reportedly to hinder the activities of militants formerly associated
with Al-Qaeda. Meanwhile, thousands are signing up to fight the jihadist
insurgency in Iraq.
Numerous
media reports citing journalists and open-internet advocates said that internet
users in Iraq are getting block screens when trying to access top social media
sites and Google.
The
Kuwait News Agency cited a source in the Iraqi Ministry of Communications
who said the agency was told to block access to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube,
as well as a number of pornographic websites.
The
source did not specify why the sites were blocked, but it is believed to be a
move to thwart militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS or
ISIL) from posting videos and pictures of exploits in the nation’s northern and
western regions. The group has captured major ground in those areas, including
Mosul, the second-largest city in Iraq.
Hayder
Hamzoz, founder of the Iraqi Network for Social Media, spread word of the
block, and Ammar Al Shahbander, the Iraq director for the Institute for War and
Peace Reporting, offered a screenshot of error messages received by users in Iraq.
Cyber
Arabs, an internet freedom monitor and cybersecurity training provider in the
Middle East and North Africa, confirmed with Mashable that Facebook, YouTube, and
Twitter were hampered across Iraq.
Martin
Chulov, reporting for the Guardian, said the sites were all down due to Iraqi government
fears that ISIS would use social media to “organise & mobilise.”
"We
are disturbed by reports of access issues in Iraq and are investigating,"
a Facebook spokesperson told Mashable. "Limiting access to internet
services – essential for communication and commerce for millions of people – is
a matter of concern for the global community."
Twitter
and YouTube spokespersons said the companies are looking into the reports.
There
have been reports of users losing access to messaging services WhatsApp and
Viber, as well.
Internet
activists also pointed out that blocking connections to users across Iraq would
likely not help in refuting ISIS-fueled rumors of their own victories.
Meanwhile,
thousands of Iraqi civilians are signing up to fight ISIS – Sunni Arab
jihadists that also have a major presence in neighboring Syria. ISIS has
handily beaten Iraqi security forces in their advance through the nation,
leading Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to announce that civilians would be
armed for an offensive against militants.
The
volunteer effort received a boost from words of encouragement from Grand
Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, a top Shiite cleric adored across Iraq.
"Citizens
who are able to bear arms and fight terrorists, defending their country and
their people and their holy places, should volunteer and join the security
forces to achieve this holy purpose," Sistani's representative announced
for the cleric.
"He
who sacrifices for the cause of defending his country and his family and his
honour will be a martyr," he added.
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