SOALAN yg MENINGKAT selepas terlatih polis IRAQ Amerika Syarikat MELARIKAN Diri utk hidup ke MOSUL . . .

Srikandi גבורה - Militan ISIL mengambil kawalan keseluruhan provinsi Ninveh, berurusan satu tamparan baru kepada perjuangan negara daripada pemberontakan. Terdahulu kumpulan turut merampas bandar yang ke-2 terbesar Iraq, Mosul; memaksa polis dan tentera ditempatkan di sana untuk melarikan diri. Untuk maklumat lanjut mengenai RT ini disertai oleh Afshin Rattansi.

Questions rise after US trained Iraqi police 

flee for lives in MOSUL . . .

ISIL militants taken control of the entire province of Ninveh, dealing a fresh blow to the country's struggle against insurgency. Earlier the group also seized Iraq's second largest city, Mosul; forcing police and the military stationed there to flee. For more on this RT is joined by Afshin Rattansi.

Darurat: Militan ISIS TAKLUKI Bandar IRAQ 1.8mn, membebaskan 2,500 TAHANAN . . .

Srikandi גבורה - Banyak-bersenjata, militan Al-Qaeda-bergabung telah merampas bandar Iraq Mosul, memandu balik tentera kerajaan. Pegawai-pegawai berkata tentera Iraq Tentera yang lemah semangat dan tidak setanding dengan tentera militan yang menyerang.

"Bandar Mosul adalah di luar kawalan kerajaan dan pada penyayang militan," seorang pegawai Kementerian Dalam Negeri kepada AFP pada hari Isnin. Ia kini bandar ke-2 jatuh di bawah kawalan pejuang Islam sejak awal tahun ini. Pada bulan Januari militan merampas bandar Fallujah, penyisihan lebih 70,000 orang

Pada pejuang Isnin malam dari kumpulan gabungannya Al-Qaeda Negara Islam di Iraq dan Levant (ISIL atau ISIS) menyerbu ibu pejabat kerajaan wilayah bersenjatakan bom tangan roket dan mesingan berat.

Gabenor di bandar ini, Atheel Nujaifi, telah ditangkap di dalam bangunan pada masa serangan itu, tetapi berjaya melarikan diri, manakala polis tempatan berjuang untuk menangkis militan. Terdahulu hari itu Nujaifi merayu kepada penduduk Mosul untuk melawan penceroboh.

"Saya menyeru kepada orang-orang Mosul untuk berdiri teguh di kawasan mereka dan mempertahankan mereka terhadap orang luar, dan untuk membentuk jawatankuasa popular melalui majlis daerah," kata Nujaifi dalam satu kenyataan.

State of emergency: ISIS militants overrun Iraq city 
of 1.8mn, free 2,500 prisoners . . .

Heavily-armed, Al-Qaeda-affiliated militants have seized the Iraqi city of Mosul, driving back government forces. Officials say the Iraqi Army’s soldiers are demoralized and are no match for the attacking militant forces.

“The city of Mosul is outside the control of the state and at the mercy of the militants,” an Interior Ministry official told AFP on Monday. It is now the second city to fall under control of Islamist fighters since the beginning of this year. In January militants seized the city of Fallujah, displacing over 70,000 people

On Monday night fighters from Al-Qaeda affiliated group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) stormed provincial government headquarters armed with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns.

The city’s governor, Atheel Nujaifi, was caught inside the building at the time of the attack, but managed to escape, while local police battled to fend off the militants. Earlier that day Nujaifi appealed to the inhabitants of Mosul to fight the invaders.

"I call on the men of Mosul to stand firm in their areas and defend them against the outsiders, and to form popular committees through the provincial council," said Nujaifi in a statement.

Pegawai-pegawai yang tidak dinamakan memberitahu Reuters bahawa pejuang kerajaan telah patah semangat dan serius dikalahkan oleh tentera militan.

Akaun saksi menggambarkan adegan huru-hara di jalan-raya bandar yang ke-2 ter-besar Iraq sebagai orang melarikan diri untuk kehidupan mereka. Beberapa laporan mengatakan bahawa militan adalah membebaskan tahanan daripada balai polis, mana-kala Koresponden AL RAI Ketua Antarabangsa Elia J Magnier menulis sebarang tweet bahawa ISIS telah dibebaskan lebih 2000 tahanan dari satu "kaunter penjara kega-nasan."

Keadaan ini huru-hara di dalam bandar dan terdapat tiada siapa untuk membantu kami, "2 ibu Kristian memberitahu AP. "Kami takut . . . Tiada polis atau tentera di Mosul."

Sebagai tindak balas kepada peningkatan itu, Perdana Menteri Nuri al-Maliki menggesa Parlimen untuk mengisytiharkan darurat.

Meminta rakyatnya untuk mengangkat senjata "untuk mempertahankan tanah air dan kalahkan keganasan," kata al-Maliki dalam satu kenyataan disiarkan di TV menyatakan bahawa kabinet telah "mewujudkan krisis sel khas untuk membuat susulan kepada proses sukarela dan melengkapkan dan membekalkan senjata."

Beberapa Jam selepas kenyataan televisyen itu, Golongan ISIS merampas beberapa lagi kawasan di wilayah Kirkuk Iraq, menurut AFP. Militan menakluki Hawijah, Zab, Riyadh, dan kawasan-kawasan Abbasi barat bandar Kirkuk, dan Rashad dan Yankaja di selatan, seorang pegawai polis memberitahu agensi.

Setiausaha Agung PBB Ban Ki-moon adalah "memandang serius mengenainya" kea-daan di Mosul, menurut jurucakap Ban, Stephane Dujarric.

"Setiausaha Agung menggesa semua pemimpin politik untuk menunjukkan perpaduan kebangsaan menentang ancaman yang dihadapi Iraq, yang hanya boleh ditangani atas dasar Perlembagaan dan dalam proses politik yang demokratik," kata Dujarric, sambil menambah bahawa Misi Bantuan PBB untuk Iraq "bersedia untuk menyokong usaha-usaha ini."

Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat juga telah mengeluarkan kenyataan yang menga-takan ia adalah mengambil berat tentang "amat serius" Keadaan di utara Iraq.

Pegawai Amerika Syarikat "menyokong, tindak balas yang kuat diselaraskan untuk menggalakkan kembali terhadap pencerobohan ini," kata jurucakap Jabatan Negara Jen Psaki dalam satu kenyataan, sambil menambah bahawa Washington akan "menye-diakan semua bantuan yang sesuai kepada Kerajaan Iraq di bawah Perjanjian Rangka Kerja Strategik untuk membantu memastikan bahawa usaha-usaha ini berjaya."

Menurut Psaki, kerajaan Amerika Syarikat menyedari bahawa kumpulan Islam radikal "terus mendapat kekuatan dari keadaan di Syria, dari mana ia memindahkan rekrut, peluru2 canggih, dan sumber-sumber untuk perjuangan di Iraq." 

ISIS Memanggil "ancaman kepada keseluruhan kawasan, "kata jurucakap itu meng-gesa masyarakat Iraq berbeza" untuk bekerja bersama-sama untuk menentang musuh ini biasa dan mengasingkan kumpulan-kumpulan militan dari penduduk yang lebih luas."

Perdana Menteri Iraq telah berjuang baru-baru ini untuk mengawal wabak keganasan mazhab di negara ini. Al-Maliki adalah Syiah Islam dan telah menjadi tidak popular dengan Iraq minoriti Sunni, yang telah menuduh kerajaan diskriminasi.

Nechirvan Barzani, Perdana Menteri kerajaan serantau Kurdistan Iraq Kurdistan mele-takkan menyalahkan pengepungan di kaki kerajaan pusat Iraq dalam satu kenyataan pada Selasa. Beliau mendakwa mereka telah diberi amaran bahawa angkatan ISIS telah menumpu pada Mosul, tetapi mereka gagal untuk mengambil apa-apa tindakan.

Unnamed officials told Reuters that government fighters were demoralized and seriously outmatched by the militant forces.

Eyewitness accounts describe the scenes of chaos on the streets of Iraq’s second-largest city as people fled for their lives. A number of reports say that militants are freeing detainees from police stations, while AL RAI Chief International Correspondent Elijah J Magnier tweeted that the ISIS had freed over 2000 inmates from a “counter terrorism prison.”

The situation is chaotic inside the city and there is nobody to help us,” a Christian mother of two told AP. “We are afraid ... There is no police or army in Mosul.”

In response to the escalation, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has called on parliament to declare a state of emergency.

Calling on citizens to take up arms “to defend the homeland and defeat terrorism,” al-Maliki said in a statement broadcast on state TV that the cabinet has “created a special crisis cell to follow up on the process of volunteering and equipping and arming.”

Hours after the televised statement, ISIS jihadists seized several more areas in Iraq’s Kirkuk province, according to AFP. Militants overran the Hawijah, Zab, Riyadh, and Abbasi areas west of the city of Kirkuk, and Rashad and Yankaja to its south, a police officer told the agency.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is “gravely concerned” about the situation in Mosul, according to Ban’s spokesman, Stephane Dujarric.

“The Secretary-General urges all political leaders to show national unity against the threats facing Iraq, which can only be addressed on the basis of the Constitution and within the democratic political process,” Dujarric said, adding that the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq “stands ready to support these efforts.”

The US State Department has also issued a statement saying it is deeply concerned about the “extremely serious” situation in northern Iraq.

US officials “support a strong, coordinated response to push back against this aggression,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement, adding that Washington will “provide all appropriate assistance to the Government of Iraq under the Strategic Framework Agreement to help ensure that these efforts succeed.”

According to Psaki, the US government realizes that the radical Islamist group “continues to gain strength from the situation in Syria, from which it transfers recruits, sophisticated munitions, and resources to the fight in Iraq.” Calling ISIS “a threat to the entire region,” the spokeswoman called on different Iraqi communities “to work together to confront this common enemy and isolate these militant groups from the broader population.”

Iraq's Prime Minister has been struggling to control the recent outbreak of sectarian violence in the country. Al-Maliki is a Shiite Muslim and has become unpopular with Iraq Sunni minority, which has accused the government of discrimination.

Nechirvan Barzani, Prime Minister of the Kurdistan regional government of Iraqi Kurdistan laid the blame for the siege at the feet of the Iraqi central government in a statement on Tuesday. He claimed they had been warned that ISIS forces were converging on Mosul, but failed to take any action.

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