Al Qaeda Is Now Running At Americans
By Chriss Street
On the evening of July 21, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia (AQM)
attacked the infamous Baghdad Abu Ghraib’s prison with car bombs, mortars and
heavy weapons.
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Guards inside the prison walls were armed only with pepper
spray and clubs. Up to a thousand prisoners escaped to rejoin AQM in its
rebellions against the Syrian and Iraqi government forces. President
Obama won reelection by claiming that al Qaeda was on the run. It now
seems that al Qaeda is running at Americans.
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The attack began with suicide bombers driving three cars
packed with explosives into the gates of the prison. Fifty AQM warriors
dressed in tribal garb blasted their way into the compound with rocket
propelled grenades as over a 100 mortar rounds fell on the defenseless guards.
Prisoners rioted and burned mattresses and clothes to blind
visibility. Inmates started throwing homemade explosives at the guards
and infiltrators handed weapons to their jailed comrades. Several
militants wearing suicide vests entered the prison on foot and blew up the
gates to free prisoners on death row, including several of the most dangerous
AQM leaders captured by U.S. troops in the bloody 2007-2008 surge.
AQM teams took up positions on the main roads leading in
from Baghdad and ambushed Iraqi government security reinforcements trying to
retake the prison. It took another 16 hours and a large number of attack
helicopters to allow government forces to regain control of the area. The
death toll was only four AQM insurgents, 71 prisoners and 10 Iraqi policemen.
The attack was part of coordinated assaults on at least nine
Middle East prisons in the last month according to Interpol. At least
1000 inmates were freed in Iraq; another 1,000 escaped from the jail in
Benghazi, Libya; and a Taliban raid on a Pakistan prison freed 250 convicts.
AQM warriors are gaining much greater control over Iraq’s
countryside. The United Nations just announced that July was the most deadly month since the
supposed end of the Iraqi civil war, with 1,057 Iraqis killed.
The Abu Ghraib prison break represents that a clear victory
for al Qaeda’s ability to mount large-scale sophisticated operations and suffer
only minor casualties. The Iraqi government’s reputation for being able
to provide security for its citizens seems to be in full collapse.
Senator John McCain, who traveled to Cairo on August 6th
to review the military coup d’état in Egypt, blamed America’s failure to leave
a residual U.S. force in Iraq for the attack. “We won the peace and lost the
war. It is really tragic,” he said. “And those people who are out of Abu Ghraib now, they
are heading right to Syria.”
The CIA’s arming of al Qaeda warriors in the Syrian civil
war has bolstered AQM’s reputation among rebellious Sunnis Muslims in Iraq, who
are now able to exploit the weakness of the Shiite Muslim led
government. In its statement claiming responsibility for the jail
break, the AQM said their operation was carried out as reprisal for the
security forces shot 50 peaceful Sunni protestors in the northern city of Hawija
in April.
The Abu Ghraib prison break in Baghdad must have involved
collusion by the 120 policemen that were supposed to man checkpoints in the
area, but disappeared before the shooting began. Local media has also
confirmed that 200 Sunni prisoners, some of them from al Qaeda, had been
transferred to Abu Ghraib prison just days before the prison escape.
These prisoners were reported to have been given access to cell phones, which
they appear to have used to coordinate the attack and break-out.
The Obama Administration’s closing of 19 embassies across
the Middle East is rumored to be due to chatter that escaped prisoners are
planning to go on al Qaeda suicide missions against United States interests
across the Middle East. President Obama’s 2012 election campaign
trumpeted that death of Usama bin Laden had “decimated al Qaeda” and they were
“on the run.” It seems to me, that al Qaeda’s military strength is
flourishing and they are now running at Americans.
CHRISS STREET & PAUL PRESTON
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