Brilliant open source analysis on "Fallujah's convoys" attack by @trbrtc at @bellingcat.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena...voy-massacres/ … …
Here's an account based on exclusive interviews with several Iraqi Air Force and Army Aviation pilots:Originally Posted by JWing
Iraqis and Americans Butted Heads Over the ISIS ‘Convoy Massacre’
Brilliant open source analysis on "Fallujah's convoys" attack by @trbrtc at @bellingcat.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena...voy-massacres/ … …
Syrian NSA Bukumal offensive partially failed because all US air cover was diverted to attack the ISIS convoy outside Fallujah.
Security report for 1st wk of July in Iraq up now. IS returning to mass casualty bombings, headline grabbing raids, re-infiltration into areas cleared by Iraqi forces. Read report here.
Ali Allawi: "#ISIS...were around...in the shadows in the 1990s...well, well before the #Iraq invasion."
https://youtu.be/9Ek9ZcOXR_A
I have been commenting often in SWJ that we were already facing when we arrived in Baghdad in 2003 a Phase Two guerrilla war being fought since the early 1990s by Iraqi Salafists in the underground against Saddam..and the forerunner of IS (QJBR) had been active inside Iraq from the early 2000 time frame onward...we just did not see it.....nor did we fully understand it.....
Iraq Fallujah's convoy strikes involved 29 aircraft including B-52, A-10, F-15, F/A-18, Typhoons,1 MQ-1 + ( 2 MQ-9) http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...isil/86947394/ …
There were definitely Salafi networks in Iraq pre-03 and they did carry out some attacks, but they were no way a guerilla/insurgency movement.
Security statistics for Iraq from 2014-2016, attacks, casualties, bombs, car bombs, suicide bombers. Raw numbers to be consumed.
Here's everything out there about what happened with those Islamic State convoys that tried to make it out of Fallujah and got destroyed. Still many questions and contradictions. Link.
Weekly security report for 2nd wk of July in Iraq out. IS's spring offensive is over. Iraqi forces made big gains in Ninewa. Here's a link.
Weekly security report out for 3rd week of July. Another week of very few attacks as the Islamic State's spring campaign is over. Here's a link.
4th week of low level violence in Iraq following Islamic State's spring offensive. Read the report here.
Summary of violence in Iraq in July 2016. End of Islamic State's spring offensive led to big drop off in violence and casualties. Here's link to article.
7th straight week of very low violence in Iraq. IS's summer offensive over, group is trying to rebuild in rural areas, govt has no major offensives that cause counterattacks are causes. Read the full report here.
8th straight week of low level violence in Iraq. Iraqi forces also launched clearing operation in Khaidiya Island and army and Peshmerga attacked Qayara in southern Ninewa preparing for Mosul operation. Full article here.
Violence has been steadily declining in Iraq in 2016. Full statistics and charts by province. Here's a link.
After 8 weeks of low level violence in Iraq number of attacks and casualties jumped 3rd wk of August. Was due to large increase in incidents in Baghdad. here's the full report.
Mosul may fall as quickly as Fallujah did. Issues that emerge afterward like control of city & Ninewa province, displaced, revenge killings, etc. will be difficult part. Here's article on it.
Iraq doesn't have a Defense Minister anymore. Here's why.
More figures, states, charts, graphs and analysis of Iraqi security in 4th qtr of 2015. Was last big surge of Islamic State violence in country before decline in 2016. Here's a link.
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