[Marxism] Iraq: Down with U.S. Imperialism
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[Marxism] Iraq: Rally against the Brutal Repression of the Revolution
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[Marxism] Iraq: Rally in Solidarity with the People’s Uprising
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Iraq: Rally in Solidarity with the People’s Uprising Report (with Pictures and Videos) from a Rally in Vienna on 10 November 2019, Austrian Section of the RCIT https://www.thecommunists.net/rcit/iraq-rally-in-support-of-the-popular-uprising-10-11-2019/ -- Revolutionär-Kommunistische Organisation BEFREIUNG (Österreichische Sektion der RCIT, www.thecommunists.net) www.rkob.net ak...@rkob.net Tel./SMS/WhatsApp/Telegram: +43-650-4068314 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] IRAQ. The revolution against sectarian system and for social justice
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[Marxism] Iraq: Rally in Support of the Popular Uprising
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[Marxism] Iraq: Rally in Solidarity with the Popular Uprising
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[Marxism] Iraq: Victory to the Popular Insurrection against the Government of Abdel Mahdi!
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[Marxism] Iraq: Long Live the Popular Insurrection!
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[Marxism] Iraq Control of Terrain Map: November 25, 2015 | Institute for the Study of War
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[Marxism] Iraq and inter-imperialist rivalry
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[Marxism] Iraq: US policy in tatters with fall of Ramadi
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[Marxism] Iraq/Syria: the making of a catastrophe
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * As this issue of our journal goes to press,* four months have elapsed since the first of Obama’s “special advisers” officially set their “boots” – sorry, their “civilian shoes”, since they were not meant to be there in a combat capacity – on Iraqi soil. They arrived on August 1st. In fact, whether they wore “boots” or “civilian shoes”, was hardly relevant. With 35,000 heavily-armed private contractors operating in Iraq, 17,000 employees at the US embassy in Baghdad (the world’s largest!) and countless military minders and trainers “embedded” within the Iraqi forces, the US government already had “boots” all over the land of Iraq, anyway! Western “precision bombings” against ISIS began a month later. They were first carried out by the US air force at the beginning of September, then by the French from September 19th and, after the Commons vote on September 26th, by the British RAF – with a host of smaller players joining the US-led coalition over the following weeks. Two months on, however. . . . full at: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/11/19/iraq-syria-the-making-of-a-catastrophe/ The article is by Workers Fight, the British co-thinkers of Lutte Ouvriere. Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Iraq, Syria, Libya, Arabia -- on Democracy Now.
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In two segments. First was aired on the show, on the Islamic State, http://www.democracynow.org/2014/8/25/blowback_vijay_prashad_on_how_islamic_state. Second is a web exclusive, on Libya and why Hamas fires rockets, http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/8/25/libya_in_chaos_vijay_prashad_on. Vijay. -- Vijay Prashad George and Martha Kellner Chair of South Asian History Professor, International Studies. Columnist, Frontline (Chennai, India). Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Iraq is not Syria: US Congress on board this time - Yahoo News
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Am I wrong to conclude this recent email by this List moderator (below) implies: 1) It would be correct (and good) to support U. S. military attacks on the Bashir al-Assad led Syria government? 2) It would be correct (and good) to support U. S. military attacks on the ISIS/ISIL/IS in Iraq and Syria? 3) It was correct for the social democrats to support their nation's governments and military attacks on other nation governments and militaries in World War One? And this also leads me to ask: 4) Since some on this same List last year (and more recently) were stating that those as myself who were concerned that the calls to support ALL the opponent forces to the Bashir al-Assad led Syrian government would: A) be supporting reactionary Islamists forces - such as ISIS B) should only support anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist forces - that we were wrong - and support of FSA, ISIS, etc. was correct and their giving words that indirectly or directly, encouraged political support for expanding imperialist military intervention And I have email responses on this List saying that: It was not true or a concern by me and others, about the actual political forces and relative strength of support among those identified with the organized opposition to the Bashir al-Assad led Syria government - as being primarily reactionary Islamists. That the Free Syrian Army and other rebel groups such as ISIS were filled with great progressive rebels. So while the U. S. government and its allies can now support the Bashir al-Assad government indirectly by attacking ISIS forces - why should Marxists be involved in supporting any of these reactionary pro-capitalist forces - whether the current governments and their militarys in Iraq, Syria, U. S., Israel. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc.? Should Marxists have not learned from the World War One conflict held precisely one hundred years ago - and not support any such capitalist government military or other reactionary forces - and only support anti-capitalist forces that favor worker governments? Personally and politically I do not support the Bashir al-Assad led Syria government or the current Iraq government(s), or view the U. S. imperialist as positive forces - and none in my opinion should either - or should they still then claim to be Marxists or Anarchists in any progressive form. We witnessed the former radical Christopher Hitchens in 2003 arguing for support of U. S. government military forces to overthrow the then Saddam Hussein led Iraq Government. If Hitchens was wrong then (and he was) why would it be politically okay now, to support the same U. S. capitalist military forces to attack in Iraq, Syria, etc.? The neo-cons some who had been also former SWP members in the Schactman split in the 1940's, were wrong to support the GW Bush and his father GH Bush and Bill Clinton's led U. S. government military forces against Iraq. The politics in the world in 1914, were very bad. Capitalist governments and monarchy empires were firmly in control. But something happened - events that led to change. Vladimir Lenin and other Marxists and Anarchists throughout the world refused to take sides in the conflict among capitalist governments then - and called for workers to resist this war and instead to support political formations that supported the interests of working people for peace, land and bread etc. Christopher Hitchens was wrong in his political assessments following the collapse of the Soviet Union government, to support in 2002-2003 U. S. imperialism and capitalist wars. Clay Claiborne and some others on this List seem going down the same road as the Neo-cons, Christopher Hitchens and others that have abandoned radical politics of Marxism and others Anarchism, to instead view taking sides of which reactionary force should be in power to exploit and oppress. Workers of the World Unite - You have nothing to lose but your chains! Give up the mental chains of ideological control and imperialist propaganda and oppose their control - and support a better world! Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 08:27:23 -0400 Subject: [Marxism] Fwd: Iraq is not Syria: US Congress on board this time - Yahoo News From: marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu To: causecollec...@msn.com Maybe John Rees and the Becker brothers should pull out all the stops and organize mass demonstrations around the slogan No War on ISIS. After all, they saved Assad's neck last year. ;-) http://news.yahoo.com/iraq-isnt-syria-congress-board-time-160544152--election.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your
Re: [Marxism] Iraq is not Syria: US Congress on board this time - Yahoo News
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 8/13/14 12:56 PM, Shane Mage via Marxism wrote: Their physical extermination is the duty of every government, every political force, in the world (any of the Nazis who fails to achieve his desired martyrdom deserves to be confined in a supermax prison under constant suicide watch for the rest of his natural--plus medically prolonged--life). This is the second instance of Shane Mage backing Samantha Power humanitarian intervention. The last time was in Mali, where he backed the French against the Tuareg rebels, who he falsely amalgamated with al Qaeda. I really wonder if there was implicit backing for the French in the Algerian war of independence given his animosity toward the FLN. These are the hazards of leftish Islamophobia obviously. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Iraq is not Syria: US Congress on board this time - Yahoo News
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 8/13/14 12:26 PM, John Obrien via Marxism wrote: 4) Since some on this same List last year (and more recently) were stating that those as myself who were concerned that the calls to support ALL the opponent forces to the Bashir al-Assad led Syrian government would: A) be supporting reactionary Islamists forces - such as ISIS B) should only support anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist forces - that we were wrong - and support of FSA, ISIS, etc. was correct and their giving words that indirectly or directly, encouraged political support for expanding imperialist military intervention This is really a filthy lie. The only fighters I (or anybody else) supported were in the FSA. Not only were we opposed to ISIS, we were also opposed to al-Nusra before that, a group that never carried out the kind of Khmer Rouge savagery now carried out by ISIS. John, you really need to get into the habit of documenting your slanderous charges. There are 2 ways of doing this: 1. Go here: http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail and search archives 2. Do an advanced search on Google for http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/ Using option 1, I found a NYT's article I posted on January 26, 2013--my 68th birthday by coincidence. I posted it in order to alert Marxmail subscribers that a clash between the FSA and al-Nusra had become more pronounced. This was even before ISIS began beheading its leaders. So, John, if you took 5 minutes to check the archives, you could have figured out that you were a lying, irresponsible troll. NY Times January 26, 2013 Jihadists and Secular Activists Clash in Syria By HANIA MOURTADA and ANNE BARNARD BEIRUT, Lebanon — The tensions had been simmering for months in the northern Syrian town of Saraqib. Civilian antigovernment activists had complained of rebel fighters who needlessly destroyed a milk factory and treated residents disrespectfully. A growing contingent of jihadist fighters from the ideologically extreme and militarily formidable Nusra Front was suspicious of the activists’ secular, nonviolent agenda. On Thursday, mistrust erupted into confrontation. Masked men believed to be with Al Nusra raided the headquarters of two secular civilian grass-roots organizations — setting in motion one of the most dramatic tests yet of the makeshift system of local governance that civilians and fighters have established in Saraqib, a rebel-held town. The dispute also tests the clout of jihadist fighters and the ability of civilian opposition groups to stand up to them. The increasingly prominent role of jihadist battalions on the battlefield worried the United States enough to blacklist Al Nusra last year as a terrorist organization, an effort to isolate it that may have backfired. The Syrian opposition is ambivalent about the group: while many antigovernment activists oppose its vision of an Islamic state and complain of attempts to enforce pious practices, its relatively steady arms supply and string of battleground victories have brought it respect. full: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.politics.marxism.marxmail/165634/match=nusra Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Iraq is not Syria: US Congress on board this time - Yahoo News
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Aug 13, 2014, at 1:14 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: On 8/13/14 12:56 PM, Shane Mage via Marxism wrote: Their physical extermination is the duty of every government, every political force, in the world (any of the Nazis who fails to achieve his desired martyrdom deserves to be confined in a supermax prison under constant suicide watch for the rest of his natural--plus medically prolonged--life). This is the second instance of Shane Mage backing Samantha Power humanitarian intervention. The last time was in Mali, where he backed the French against the Tuareg rebels... Those swine were the detritus from the imperialist intervention in Libya. It was the Tuareg rebels were fighting them but they were out- armed and unable to defend Tombuctou and most of the Tuareg's Saharan domain from them. Why should they be denounced for *in extremis* accepting help against the takfiri scum from any quarter? It seems that Lou's Francophobia, stemming from his Pabloite past glorification of the fascist FLN (responsible for ethnic cleansing and murders exceeding even those perpetrated by the Zionists in the nakba) has made him entirely insensitive to the genocides and lesser atrocities carried out by the Nazistic takfiris). Shane Mage Thunderbolt steers all things. Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Iraq is not Syria: US Congress on board this time
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Aug 13, 2014, at 1:14 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: On 8/13/14 12:56 PM, Shane Mage via Marxism wrote: Their physical extermination is the duty of every government, every political force, in the world (any of the Nazis who fails to achieve his desired martyrdom deserves to be confined in a supermax prison under constant suicide watch for the rest of his natural--plus medically prolonged--life). This is the second instance of Shane Mage backing Samantha Power humanitarian intervention. The last time was in Mali, where he backed the French against the Tuareg rebels... Those swine were the detritus from the imperialist intervention in Libya. It was the Tuareg rebels who were fighting them but they were out-armed and unable to defend Tombuctou and most of the Tuareg's Saharan domain from them. Why should they be denounced for *in extremis* accepting help against the takfiri scum from any quarter? It seems that Lou's Francophobia, stemming from his Pabloite past glorification of the fascist FLN (responsible for ethnic cleansing and murders exceeding even those perpetrated by the Zionists in the nakba) has made him entirely insensitive to the genocides and lesser atrocities carried out by the Nazistic takfiris). Shane Mage Thunderbolt steers all things. Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Iraq statement by Arab revolutionary organizations
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Re: [Marxism] Iraq and Syria: The struggle against the multi-sided counterrevolution
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == correct link: http://mkaradjis.wordpress.com/2014/06/25/iraq-and-syria-the-struggle-against-the-multi-sided-counterrevolution/ The one you provided takes you to the Edit Blog page. On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Michael Karadjis via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Iraq and Syria: The struggle against the multi-sided counterrevolution https://mkaradjis.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post= 151action=editmessage=6postpost=v2 As a coalition of Sunni-based forces, including the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS), took the major northern Iraqi city of Mosul and then most of the Sunni heartland in the north and west of Iraq, regional and western capitals went into crisis mode: the entire post-US occupation stabilisation had collapsed in a heap. And the coalition leading this revolt consists of none other than the same forces which led the Iraqi resistance to US occupation throughout the middle years of the last decade. Yes, once again the arch-reactionary ISIS itself has revealed its brutality, with reported mass killing of captured soldiers, a crime against humanity; in the same way that monstrous acts, such as bombing work queues and Shiite mosques, were carried out during the anti-US resistance by al-Qaida in Iraq (ie, what became ISIS); horrific repression is partly to blame for breeding horrific reactions. In both cases however, this most violent and irrational element does not define the movement, still less explain its strength. These events involve both Syria and Iraq, with their long, relatively open, border occupied on both sides by ISIS. The rise of ISIS can be connected to two momentous events: the American Guernica on Iraq 2003-2008, and the vast multi-sided Iraqi resistance to that invasion and occupation; and the vast popular revolution in Syria, and the Assad regime’s Guernica to suppress it over 2011-2014. In both cases, the victims have been overwhelmingly Iraqi and Syrian Sunni Arabs – the vast Sunni majority in Syria, and the significant Sunni minority in Iraq. It is in the context of this overwhelming disaster faced by the Sunni masses of Syria and Iraq, and mass resistance to it, that ISIS has been able to grow, representing the most extreme and most sectarian reaction to this dual blitzkrieg. Iraq and Syria: the forces ranged against both regimes and ISIS It is important to understand, however, that in neither Syria nor Iraq is ISIS the only opposition, among the disenfranchised Sunni masses, and the popular masses more generally, to the sectarian-based capitalist regimes in power. While the media focus has been about “regime(s) versus ISIS,” in reality, in both countries, there are three main forces in contention: 1. The Bashar al-Assad and Nuri al-Maliki regimes. Both are sectarian-based regimes: the Assad regime is a “secular” totalitarian regime heavily based among the elite of the Alawite religious minority; the Maliki regime is a sectarian, semi-theocratic, Shiite regime closely aligned with both the former US occupier, that facilitated its rise to power, and with the Shiite theocracy in neighbouring Iran. 2. The Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS), the most extreme Sunni sectarian and theocratic movement in the region, which has set up its own semi-state over parts of Syria and Iraq. A descendant of al-Qaida in Iraq, ISIS was disowned by al-Qaida last year for being unnecessarily and embarrassingly barbaric (though in fact the disagreement went back as far as 2005). It represents an “opposing counterrevolution,” formed partially from within the ranks of the uprisings. 3. In between, a vast opposition to the regimes which is also distinct from ISIS, in open war with it in Syria, and on and off at war with it in Iraq: In Iraq, this consists of a range of “Sunni tribes” and other Sunni militias which have, over the last year or so, alternatively been fighting the regime alongside ISIS, or fighting against ISIS. This includes Sunni militia that were part of the Iraqi resistance to US occupation, whether pro-Saddam Baathist, Islamist or otherwise nationalist; and Sunni groups that were mobilised by the US and Saudi Arabia into the “Sawha” (Awakening) movement that helped defeat al-Qaida in 2007-8, but have since become disenchanted with the Shiite sectarian regime they had been drawn into propping up. In Syria, this consists of all the armed manifestations of the Syrian revolution, from the secular Free Syrian Army (FSA, based heavily among the Sunni but not
[Marxism] Iraq: Defend the Sunni Rebellion against the Maliki Regime and US Imperialism!
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Iraq: Defend the Sunni Rebellion against the Maliki Regime and US Imperialism! Down with all Reactionary Religious Sectarianism! For a Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic! Statement of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 22.6.2014, www.thecommunists.net 1. A mass rebellion of the Sunni population has swept away government control over most of the Sunni areas in Iraq. This rebellion has sounded alarm bells not only among the bourgeois-Islamist Shia sectarian regime of Nouri al-Maliki, but also among the ruling classes in Washington and Teheran. The resulting destabilization of post-occupation Iraq signals a major defeat for US imperialism. As a result, the US has begun a new military intervention in Iraq. In light of these developments, the central task of socialists is to defend the uprising against the attempts of the Maliki regime, as well as of Washington and Teheran, to crush it. At the same time, reactionary forces like the arch-reactionary Salafist group Islamic State in Iraq and Levante (ISIL – often also abridged as ISIS) must be driven back, since they represent a major obstacle to the building of a non-sectarian resistance of workers and peasants in the Middle East against imperialism and reactionary dictatorships. The task is to transform the current rebellions in the Middle East into a region-wide class struggle for a socialist federation of workers’ and peasants’ republics. Read more at http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/iraq-sunni-rebellion/ -- Revolutionär-Kommunistische Organisation BEFREIUNG ak...@rkob.net www.rkob.net +43-650-4068314 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Iraq
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == News from Iraq is getting worse by the hour. Many cities in the north of the country have now fallen to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis), working in alliance with a variety of Sunni groups and tribes. The mortar attack on Iraq’s biggest oil refinery is another example of the escalation of the conflict. On June 17 news came of an attempt to capture of the city of Baquba, the capital of Diyala province, which is just 64 kilometres north of Baghdad. Isis already controls Mosul, Tikrit, Tal Afar and a number of smaller cities and towns. However, its gains in the north of Iraq are not just military advances: the group is now able to access government military equipment, including helicopters and Humvee military vehicles, as well as substantial funds held at banks and insurance companies in the places it has taken. It is reported that the banks of Mosul alone have increased the jihadist group’s funds by $400 million. Of course, Isis has additional regular income from the oilfields it controls in eastern Syria, the sale of antiquities looted from historical sites, as well as donations from wealthy contributors in Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states. full at: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/iraq-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen/ See also the interview with Yassamine Mather at: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/06/15/whats-tearing-iraq-apart/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Iraq Update
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Got this from Ward Reilly, Vets for Peace: Some Iraq reality, from a friend (Ahmed) in Mosul; Update on Iraq situation After the taking of Mosul by several resistance factions along with ISIS each operating in considerable isolation to the other, the city now enjoys a peaceful environment, a new mayor has been appointed and each resistance faction is assisting local dignitaries to run each area in a manner that avoids stirring trouble between the factions on one end and ISIS on the other. The Revolutionaries at this point seem to have received orders that no tensions are permissible with any party fighting the central government until the political process in iraq installed by the Americans and Iranians is removed from power. After that is another story, as most Iraqis regardless of their sect do not accept that ISIS be the master of the house. The Military council and Tribes are avoiding even displaying their full colour allowing ISIS to take the highlight in the Media this way their bad reputation causes mont on the government side to flee thus reducing overall casualties and blood spill. This policy obviously has it's negative implications and allows Maliki to claim that everyone is ISIS to gather International Political and Media support. When asked by local journalists the Councils insist that when the time comes where ISIS is consumed by it's creators in Battle they will choose the hour where they will clear matters in a more public Manner. This will also force a lot of Media organisations promoting the ISIS line to accept a new reality where people would discover the the amount of disinformation they were fed, leaving these media outlets in an awkward position with their readers and viewers. this is a very tricky strategy. but they insist that ISIS is the problem of the government and the Americans and the Military council is fighting its own war and will not interest itself with any argument that they should fight ISIS first as this is the government line. Video from Mosul Markets are open and fighters NOT related to ISIS but rather to the Military councils great the people http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZvZ_6rVZuE Video of People in Mosul greeting tribal fighters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkLuSww2ZcA Video of the municipality removing concrete barriers and checkpoint remains people in mosul travel freely now as opposed to checkpoints that annoyed civilians more than it protected them during Maliki's presence. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQdTRxlU0bo http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DIQdTRxlU0boh=xAQExU1z5enc=AZPAOyPRHyjXwB7vTvpigZ6xU8jLFP_Rl_W0Rn6CJeg0olBwocqbz3DQW0nK13rcqtFr0XC1IuX7SGpas_nMefWSULx9ptiG4afCYqSUw21AjkPbairuFG6YrXT8hW7sdYKlR94ExODDdhP12KCsFDmgs=1 Interview with with a police officer in mosul after the takeover confirm their comfort of the presence of the tribal fighters and request the fighters to protect the city banks and infrastructure and the readiness of the police force to work with them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w0UL57iZp0 http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D_w0UL57iZp0h=YAQHVeO3Penc=AZOgpoT_Kg8tXG8Fn1cLfKPKdwfJQeVqOe0-pIPkMHTJWpYHd5QsboXYu8PkUSS-UXIEO0OI5XBu59hr4wZkkKppcy6O5WTJAYXOCzNiE6LMcDvLKv-UjZlo9p7xBiKJkET2FyLu2Q9Dk6y0NhL0CoB1s=1 Civilian confirming that the revolutionaries in his area are not ISIS and that the revolution is for all iraqis and that the banks are under the protection of the revolutionaries now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePll4XiFIO4 http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DePll4XiFIO4h=sAQEBAIThenc=AZNMpfxVuSNQUcvx0cBs-VtvsmKh_rGIpv7dO1uE0DeIq7Ccsv4C7opV7DcpgE_608hKTSlLeQdMdfsAYy6bMdJ0eSPCXxKrJNTc6AuoEz9m1KO2PkZ3Gd0KoguUhWwtqGxan8itt0JetAlcS-oxLo9Ps=1 Civilian asking people who fled Mosul to come back after it is free roads are all open and services are being repaired http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-KnJHbgNd8 http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DI-KnJHbgNd8h=FAQE2XY6oenc=AZMlOMOE5_w--EluUYzbd_TAiFovFWkA6ZAuRHA9SQfYGnwDyDMoG26KGBJx1vbHdEzoMprzxoUHWHFMeuCz3ecd3M0PJNWPL4qRhYxu-l8Is3dbSZb6UKUR0lvpHb-KLE83bDFCf5mY4E_fuzS14Pu5s=1 Civilian saying that Mosul is peaceful and he has no obstruction now in movement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiX-WeAqy5A http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DPiX-WeAqy5Ah=4AQExXjXQenc=AZOHk7OsckGaPp2djmFv6Z2s6rkkih6UGbgopQXtcbU3F0rkRsOd8n8bAhPDfASmaGlKuRzO-mSq0Q_TJjWDhjUokopcYZtjJlHi6xFWnSeO7H2xLJVVn8GALVNmlMN2-WBXb-o4htPSnHTLv4p7p4aos=1 Civilian refugee who returned to Mosul after being welcomed by revolutionaries http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wTUvB5Ueus
