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IRAQ EXPLOSIONS IN LINE WITH ISRAELI PLANS - ANALYST
09:36 24/07/2013 INTERVIEWS
Press TV has conducted an interview with Sabah Jawad, director of
the Iraqi Democrats against Occupation from London, to shed more
light on the issue of the latest series of deadly explosions in the
country during the holy month of Ramadan.
Following is an approximate transcription of the interview.
- Indeed Martin Kobler (UN envoy to Iraq) puts it correctly when he
says, these attacks are extremely senseless. What do you make of this
as specifically considering that these attacks have sharply increased
during this holy month of Ramadan?
-This has been happening quite a lot recently in the last few months
as well and we could only speculate about the perpetrators of such
crimes but a lot of people think that it is linked to the events
in Syria because terrorism is, actually, happening in Syria at the
moment and there are strong terrorist links between al-Qaeda in Iraq
and al-Qaeda and al-Nusrah in Syria as well. Especially after they
have been suffering setbacks in Syria they are trying to open new
fronts in Iraq to help each other.
It has been going on and also the political system is a bit shaky,
there is conflict within political forces in Iraq which is not helping
the situation at all and we have a situation where the security service
seems to be unable to control and tackle these issues, which indicates,
actually, that security forces itself has been infiltrated by some
forces which do not want peace and tranquility in Iraq as well.
- Right, so what do you see next for Iraq? Do you see the country
being able to clean up these security forces from within and also
unite against the threats that it is facing?
- Well, this is a legacy of the occupation of Iraq by the United
States and the British for the past ten years or so..., they recruited
a lot of pro-Ba'athists within the security systems. There is a lot
of people in the security system who do not feel (have) allegiance
to Iraq as such.
They have links with the regional powers, they are part and parcel of
the whole plan to destabilize and divide the Middle East on sectarian
lines as well.
We see these kind of things happening not only in Iraq but we see it
happening in Syria and recently in Lebanon and elsewhere in the region.
There is a campaign to ferment..., and to be able to control...,
and this what is happening in Iraq and Syria and Lebanon. It is a great
09:36 24/07/2013 INTERVIEWS
Press TV has conducted an interview with Sabah Jawad, director of
the Iraqi Democrats against Occupation from London, to shed more
light on the issue of the latest series of deadly explosions in the
country during the holy month of Ramadan.
Following is an approximate transcription of the interview.
- Indeed Martin Kobler (UN envoy to Iraq) puts it correctly when he
says, these attacks are extremely senseless. What do you make of this
as specifically considering that these attacks have sharply increased
during this holy month of Ramadan?
-This has been happening quite a lot recently in the last few months
as well and we could only speculate about the perpetrators of such
crimes but a lot of people think that it is linked to the events
in Syria because terrorism is, actually, happening in Syria at the
moment and there are strong terrorist links between al-Qaeda in Iraq
and al-Qaeda and al-Nusrah in Syria as well. Especially after they
have been suffering setbacks in Syria they are trying to open new
fronts in Iraq to help each other.
It has been going on and also the political system is a bit shaky,
there is conflict within political forces in Iraq which is not helping
the situation at all and we have a situation where the security service
seems to be unable to control and tackle these issues, which indicates,
actually, that security forces itself has been infiltrated by some
forces which do not want peace and tranquility in Iraq as well.
- Right, so what do you see next for Iraq? Do you see the country
being able to clean up these security forces from within and also
unite against the threats that it is facing?
- Well, this is a legacy of the occupation of Iraq by the United
States and the British for the past ten years or so..., they recruited
a lot of pro-Ba'athists within the security systems. There is a lot
of people in the security system who do not feel (have) allegiance
to Iraq as such.
They have links with the regional powers, they are part and parcel of
the whole plan to destabilize and divide the Middle East on sectarian
lines as well.
We see these kind of things happening not only in Iraq but we see it
happening in Syria and recently in Lebanon and elsewhere in the region.
There is a campaign to ferment..., and to be able to control...,
and this what is happening in Iraq and Syria and Lebanon. It is a great