Iraqi Resistance Claim 5,000 Attacks Against US Occupation Forces
Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq's leader has stated that their resistance group has executed 5,000 operations against U.S. forces occupying Iraq.
On Saturday, Qais al-Khazali addressed the crowd on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the movement’s founding.
Khazali declared that the operations against the American occupiers in Iraq will persist.
He highlighted that the organization was founded on beliefs and standards that it holds strongly.
Khazali declared that Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq has been essential in protecting Iraq’s sacred sites from Takfiri extremists, and further expressed, “We are ready to be the first to sacrifice our lives for Iraq and its inhabitants.”
When Takfiri terrorists tried to demolish them, he noted that resistance groups have also played a significant role in defending the holy shrines in Syria.
After a prominent figure from Iraq’s Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, a branch of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), declared the US military stationed in Iraq as a legitimate target as long as they are present in the country, his remarks were made.
In late April, Nasr al-Shammari stated that no agreement had been reached between the group and US forces to alleviate tensions or stop counterattacks against American soldiers.
He asserted that Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba does not comply with any political arrangement involving a ceasefire or a decrease in tensions with American forces occupying Iraq. He further declared that their official stance towards the presence of US troops in Iraq has never altered.
Shammari stated that occupation forces are a legitimate target in Iraq and other countries within the West Asian region so long as they remain in Iraqi lands.
In July 2021, US President Joe Biden and Iraq’s then Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi declared that the combat mission of the United States in Iraq would come to an end by the end of that year and the remaining 2,500 US troops would transition to an “advisory” role, following pressure from the Iraqi people.
There has been growing discontent among Iraqis towards the US military’s presence in their region, especially since the US assassination of two powerful anti-terrorism leaders from Iraq and Iran in three years ago.
General Qassem Soleimani, leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’ Quds Force, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the PMU’s second-in-command, were tragically killed alongside their companions in a US drone attack, authorized by President Donald Trump, at the Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020.
