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tvR - Negara Islam Menyinggung pada ibu kota Iraq dipergiatkan sebagai pejuang
jihad mara sejauh Abu Ghraib, pinggir bandar hanya 8 batu dari Lapangan Ter-bang
Antarabangsa Baghdad.
Pinggir bandar luar Abu Ghraib juga tapak penjara yang terkenal tentera Amerika
Syarikat yang digunakan untuk menghina dan menyiksa tahanan Iraq.
Ada laporan oleh tentera Iraq bahawa militan adalah memiliki peluru
berpandu anti-pesawat MANPAD. Yang jarak dekat, peluru berpandu bahu-dilepas
boleh menembak jatuh kapal terbang dalam lingkungan 15,000 kaki.
Tentera Iraq, dibantu oleh anggota tentera Amerika Syarikat, setakat ini
gagal dalam foiling terlebih dahulu ke arah Baghdad daripada militia Negara
Islam (juga dikenali sebagai ISIS, atau Isil), yang telah berkembang daripada
kawalan swathes besar Iraq dan Syria walaupun terdapat peningkatan di Amerika
Syarikat yang diterajui serangan udara.
BATTLE for Baghdad:
ISIS Now WITHIN 8 miles
of AIRPORT, Armed with MANPADS . . .
Islamic State’s offensive on the Iraqi capital
intensified as the jihadist fighters advanced as far as Abu Ghraib, a suburb
only 8 miles away from Baghdad’s international airport.
The outer suburb of Abu Ghraib is also the site of the infamous prison
the US military used to humiliate
and torture Iraqi detainees.
There are reports by the Iraqi military that the
militants are in possession of MANPAD anti-aircraft missiles. The short-range,
shoulder-fired missiles can shoot down airplanes within a range of 15,000 feet.
The Iraqi military, aided by US military personnel,
have so far failed in foiling the advance toward Baghdad of the Islamic State
militia (also known as ISIS, or ISIL), which has expanded its control of huge
swathes of Iraq and Syria despite the increase in US-led airstrikes.
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Seramai 60,000 tentera Iraq ditugaskan untuk mempertahankan ibu negara,
bersama 12 pasukan penasihat Amerika, seorang pegawai Iraq memberitahu CBS
News.
Sementara itu, militan aktif menyamar IS dalam
Baghdad menetapkan bom dan menjalankan serangan. Kemajuan Swift juga telah oleh militia jihad
di Anbar, di mana pegawai-pegawai Iraq telah membuat pengakuan terbuka untuk
bantuan ketenteraan, amaran bandar tidak lama lagi akan jatuh ke IS.
Keadaan di Anbar, sebuah bandar barat Baghdad,
adalah "rapuh" kata seorang pegawai Amerika Syarikat kepada AFP. IS
telah merampas pangkalan tentera di wilayah Anbar, & telah serangan ibukota
provinsi, Ramadi, 75 batu (120 kilometer) dari Baghdad.
CNN melaporkan bahawa tentera Iraq di Anbar adalah dalam bahaya yang
bottlenecked, memetik seorang pegawai pertahanan kanan Amerika Syarikat.
A total of 60,000 Iraqi soldiers are assigned to defend the capital,
alongside 12 teams of American advisors, an Iraqi officer told CBS News.
Meanwhile, undercover IS militants active within
Baghdad are setting off bombs and carrying out attacks. Swift advances have
also been by the jihadist militia in Anbar, where Iraqi officials have made an
open plea for military aid, warning the city will soon fall to IS.
The situation in Anbar, a town due west of Baghdad,
is “fragile” a US official told AFP. IS has seized army bases in Anbar
province, and has been shelling the provincial capital, Ramadi, 75 miles (120
kilometers) from Baghdad.
CNN reported that Iraqi troops in Anbar are in danger of being
bottlenecked, citing a senior US defense official.
Breaking: #Iraq troops fighting #ISIS in #Anbar W. of Baghdad "up against wall" & "in danger of being cut off" - Def. Official tells me
"Kita melihat Isil terus membuat keuntungan di
wilayah Anbar dan [adalah] sedar bagaimana Anbar berkaitan dengan keselamatan
Baghdad," kata seorang lagi pegawai pertahanan kanan Amerika Syarikat.
Wilayah Anbar adalah rumah kpd empangan Iraq yg
ke-2 terbesar di Haditha, sumber utama air dan kuasa elektrik. Empangan itu
kini dikawal oleh pasukan Iraq, dan serangan udara Amerika Syarikat telah
disasarkan kuasa IS di kawasan itu.
Ia telah dinyatakan oleh kedua-dua Amerika Syarikat
dan Iraq yang menghalang IS menawan kawasan ini adalah satu matlamat utama,
sebagaimana yang memegang Baghdad.
Di Syria, tentera IS sedang berusaha untuk mengawal
Kobani, yang mereka kini menguasai 40 % peratus. Kobani adalah di sempadan
Syria-Turki dan mempunyai majoriti Kurdish.
Utusan PBB Staffan de Mistura memberi amaran Jumaat bahawa jika Kobani
jatuh ke ISIS, orang awam akan terdapat "kemungkinan besar akan
dibunuh."
Pada bulan Jun, ISIS pemberontak dgn cepat menawan
yang ke-2 terbesar bandar Iraq, Mosul, utara Baghdad. Apabila mereka mengambil
kota itu, mereka meram-pas sejumlah besar peralatan tentera Amerika Syarikat
pada asalnya diberikan kepada tentera Iraq.
"We do see ISIL continue to make gains in Anbar province and [are]
mindful of how Anbar relates to the security of Baghdad," another
senior US defense official said.
Anbar province is home to Iraq's second biggest dam
at Haditha, a major source of water and electrical power.The dam is currently
controlled by Iraqi forces, and US airstrikes have targeted IS
forces in the area.
It has been stated both by the US and Iraq that
preventing IS from capturing the area is a key objective, as is holding
Baghdad. In Syria, IS forces are vying for control of Kobani, which they now control 40
percent. Kobani is on the Syria-Turkish border and has a Kurdish majority.
UN envoy Staffan de Mistura warned Friday that if Kobani falls to ISIS,
civilians there would “most likely be massacred.”
In June, ISIS insurgents quickly captured Iraq’s
second-biggest city, Mosul, north of Baghdad. When they took the city, they
seized a large amount of military US equipment originally given to the Iraqi
army.
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