The Kurdish army in Iraq warns of a resurgence of the “Islamic state”. The terrorist militia should be grouped currently new, and their fractious opponents benefit. From Erbil and Mosul, Judit Neurink.
Fear of a return of the IS-terror. The destroyed metropolis of Mosul does not come to rest.
The former Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi celebrated it as a Triumph: “The ‘Islamic state’ in Iraq is defeated,” said the head of government in December 2017. However, a year later, the situation has changed. The Terror IS back, seeping slowly to the place where the Islamists were once their strongholds.
In Tikrit, five people in the Explosion of a car bomb died a few days ago. In the case of the first heavy bomb attacks in Mosul since the liberation of the terrorist militia, four people were recently killed. How present is the is is on Iraqi Terrain, also shows a different message: a few days Ago, Iraqi security authorities in Mosul 52 terror suspects – among them the leading IS-squad.
The Prime Minister proclaimed victory over the IS it not have given, say, in the meantime, General Aziz Weysi, the Bani of the Gendarmerie of the Peshmerga in the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan. This Kurdish special forces have taken in Iraq have an important role in the fight against the IS. To expel IS from the Region, allies of the Kurds with the Iraqi army and the Shiite militias. Of the international coalition troops were formed, and the air received support. A total of more than 1,800 Kurdish fighters were killed in the Fighting.
The fight against the Shia militias, the Kurdish major General Aziz Weysi Bani
However, a year after the supposed military victory over the Islamists, the General has sounded the Alarm: The IS is still a big threat, all the more so, as the world falsely believe the militia in Iraq is already smashed and in Syria just before the From. “No one knows the danger better than we do,” said the officer, in an Interview with DW, he refers to the experience of its fighters and current intelligence information.
IS benefited from the political vacuum
In his headquarters in a building of the airport in the regional capital of Erbil Weysi warns, the impact force of the IS to under-estimate. The rise of the IS, the in the Region of all the Daesh name, is for the military, the result of deep-seated political conflicts in Iraq. The terrorist militia also continue to be of the political situation in the country. The disenchanted Sunni minority complains of lack of support by the Iraqi government. Baghdad, offer very little help in the reconstruction of the cities in the North. After the initial euphoria, the residents are complaining now about the Shia Haschd al-Shaabi militia, who have far taken over security tasks. Kidnapping, extortion, and insecurity are now back to everyday life.
Until October 2017, both the Central government and the Kurdish claimed areas were under Kurdish control. Now Shiite militias have taken control. “We don’t trust you, and they don’t trust us enough to focus on Daesh,” says the General over the militia. “And Daesh uses the vacuum created. You have a lot of tunnels in which they can hide because there are not many places that controlled the Iraqi army and never visited.”
Conflicts: Shiite militias are putting up posters in the majority Sunni Mosul photos of Shia leader Ayatollah al-Sistani.
In the office of the General a portrait of Kurdistan, Ex-President Massud Barzani hanging on the wall. Here Weysi explains how to use the fighters to organize. A group of IS terrorists need money, an ideology, sidekick and guide. Money the IS monkey with the sale of Oil. The ideology is in the minds of conservative Sunnis still present and until today, have fought many foreigners and former Iraqi military and intelligence service, members of the IS groups in the last remaining IS-areas in Syria. And the leadership of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has not been still found. “It’s around 3000 soldiers of the IS are left. Many will come from Syria into Iraq, if they lose there ground. In 2014, they have taken on with only five hundred men of Mosul.”
Mosul is paying the price for the IS-reign
The fear of a new attack on Mosul spreads in the population of the city, which has suffered for three years under the occupation by the terrorist group. While the inhabitants were grateful, as the Iraqi military has liberated the city on the banks of the Tigris, not many residents today are under the impression that the army and the Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi-a guarantee of the militia of their safety. Under assurance of anonymity, a police officer in Mosul, stated that there still IS-activists in the city. But without any complaints of, or affiliation with evidence the police could do nothing.
The fear is even bigger than at the beginning of November a bomb in the vicinity of the popular Abu Layla Restaurants in West exploded in Mosul. Four people were killed, eleven were wounded. “Daesh is trying to show us that you are here, because we have killed 15 of them a couple of days before,” says major General Jasim Mohammed, Deputy commander-in-chief of the ‘Nineveh Operations Command, the armed forces in the territory of Mosul in a coordinated manner.
But he sees in the bomb attack, no evidence of a new threat by the IS. “In Mosul, Daesh is history. All that is left of them, are a couple of sleeper cells, the Interview we try to eradicate,” says the officer in the DW.
Was most important, he says, that the IS could no longer count on the support of the people in Mosul, have helped 2014 to take the city. “The people have the worst three years of your life behind. You will never have to do the same. Many people will provide us now with information. Daesh is just trying to intimidate you.”
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A year of liberation of Mosul – life in a mined city
But Mosul, the capital of their self-proclaimed Caliphate, is for the IS-terrorist militia is still of importance. In front of the command center, which was formerly a Palace of the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, waiting for Muhammad’s superior, major-General Najim al-Jobori, on a convoy that takes him to the city. “Mosul is the price. You’ll want it back,” he told DW. At the same time he is trying to convince the civilian population of the new security situation, by showing on the markets, on the street, and also at a funeral presence.
Threat for Europe
Also, Kurdish Peshmerga leaders warn of a return of the IS, while international observers to assume that the terrorist militia is still a global threat. You may be weakened, analyzed General Weysi, but “[the group] back to learn more from their mistakes and come back with other tactics”.
Since the liberation of Mossuls there are warnings of a “reinvention” of the IS. But the Iraqi government deny this danger, so Weysi. “You can’t lose your face. And you continue to deny the evidence, because you want to get rid of the Americans.”
The Kurds are ready to fight against the Shiite militias in the Autonomous Region. They wanted to focus on the IS. To calls for this purpose, Weysi, the European Union, exert pressure so that the forces for the reunification of the Anti-IS. “I hope that Europe will listen to, because the continent is more in the focus of Daesh as the US. And the terrorist militia is patient. She waits for a favorable time. The IS like to stay in Europe for a while inactive, but if the group fills up here, will you be in Europe again.”