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ISIL following in US steps in Iraq: Analyst

Members of the Iraqi security forces inspect a mass grave containing the remains of people slain by the ISIL Takfiri terrorists at a camp in Tikrit, April 12, 2015. (AFP photo)

Press TV has conducted an interview with Ibrahim Mousawi, a political analyst in Beirut, about the discovery of the remains of around 600 soldiers executed by Takfiri ISIL terrorists in Iraq.

 

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: You thoughts on the mass graves that are being recovered.

Mousawi: When you talk about the terrorists, the so-called Islamic State, which has nothing to do with Islam, as we all know it is a kind of disfigurement, it is a kind of distortion for the basic values of Islam. When you talk about massacres, when you talk about perpetrations, atrocities by such forces, you are talking about something normal. It comes as no surprise at all. It would not fall as surprise on our ears or anyone else’s ears because the whole history, the basic raison d’être of such terrorist organization has been littered with blood and with massacres and with genocide, if you want to say. This is not a normal massacre. This is not something that we can talk about in a kind of collateral damage or a kind of fierce attack. You are talking about people who were gathered, who were killed after mediation and after they have taken the purpose of killing them.

The whole history of these kinds of groups brings us back to what the Americans have done in Iraq as well during the shock-and-awe policy by the American forces. They want to intimidate, they want to terrorize the people to make them paralyzed and not being able to think to react and to respond by reaction or by resistance against the American occupation. The same thing happens with the ISIL which is one of the manufactures of the American policy in Iraq. Again we see the same history, again we see the same policy, the same measures, the same massacres, the same genocide taking place, following the steps of the Americans in the country.   

Press TV: As the Iraqi forces as well as in Syria, we are seeing this concerted effort to rid these countries of ISIL terrorists and the ideology. There is also this concern that places like Libya and even Afghanistan conditions are being created to allow the presence of ISIL in those countries. Can the world truly get rid of ISIL if there are those who are continually working to ensure that these terrorists are funded, supported and maintained?

Mousawi: My understanding is that the second choice is being adapted by the world powers - by the United States, by others. Many experts, many analysts, many people who witnessed what is really happening there on the ground, they see that huge convoys of military artillery, of the military personnel of ISIL are moving from one place to another. They are crossing long distances under the eyes of the American intelligence and their high-tech weaponry and their monitoring equipments and they are doing nothing against them, not in Iraq, not in any other place. The same applies to Syria.

So it is most likely that the Americans are happy of what is happening. They want to perpetuate, to ensure the continuation of such genocides and massacres. The current situation of attrition, of bloodshed, is falling in a nice way to the American plots and to the American conspiracies in the region. That is why it is not likely that we can see a very foreseeable future to rid the area from the terrorist group of ISIL.

My understanding is that the people there in different regions, they should take the initiative. The governments and the people, they should have the initiative in order to fight them back to have the determination, the will and the resolve and they should be helped and maybe this is something that should be cooperated and organized by many countries in the region, like Iran, Iraq, Syria, other places as well.  

AHK/HSN


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