Iraqi resistance

Development of attacks from 2003 to the end of 2005

The Iraqi resistance refers to armed groups that fought against the occupation of Iraq . The violence is directed against the foreign troops and the Iraqi armed forces . At the same time, a civil war flared up.

The uprising began shortly after the invasion by the Coalition of the Willing and before the establishment of a new Iraqi government. From 2004 to May 2007, the Iraqi insurgents primarily targeted coalition troops, but also troops from the new Iraqi government. 10% of the attacks were directed against Iraqi civilians. These claimed most of the victims.

Iraqi resistance groups

Nationalists and Islamists

The Islamic Army in Iraq is one of the largest insurgent organizations.

The battalions of the 1920 revolution (referring to the Iraqi uprising in 1920 ) are smaller than the Islamic Army in Iraq. The organization is the only one whose name refers not to a religious, but to a national background.

The Hamas Iraq split on 18 March 2007 by the battalions of the 1920 Revolution from. The battalions of the 1920s revolution claim that Hamas Iraq assisted US forces in Diyala province in fighting al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Jaish Muhammad (Army of Muhammad; JM) consists primarily of Sunni Iraqis. Many members of the Ba'ath Party in Iraq are organized in the army of Muhammad. During the Kuwait War in 1991, Iraq's then President Saddam Hussein had already referred to the Iraqi army as the army of Muhammad. The leader of the Iraqi Ba'ath party Izzat Ibrahim ad-Duri is said to work with the JM.

Initially, Mohammed Younis al-Ahmed al-Muwali is said to have instructed insurgents from a base in Syria. Until 2007 he was considered a competitor of Izzat Ibrahim ad-Duri.

Jihadists

Ansar al-Sunnah is also sometimes seen as the largest insurrectionary movement. It is a militant Kurdish-Arab Islamist group of Sunni characteristics, which represents a radical interpretation of Islam and the holy war in Iraq.

Ansar al-Islam is a Kurdish- Islamist group from northern Iraq, which represents a radical interpretation of Islam and, until the Iraq war , controlled dozens of villages in an area from the far north of Iraq to the Iranian border. Ansar was suspected of being in contact with al-Qaeda . After the US invasion in 2003, it appeared in numerous attacks and suicide bombings, in which there were many deaths. Most likely, she merged with the Ansar al-Sunna group in September 2003.

Al-Qaeda in Iraq is the best known terrorist organization in Iraq.

Former organizations

The Saddam Fedayeen were a paramilitary, well trained and equipped militia in Iraq.

Political Council of the Iraqi Resistance

The resistance organizations united in both the Reform and Jihad Front and the Front for Jihad and Change joined forces with the Islamic Front of the Iraqi Resistance Alliance, which mainly includes insurgents from the provinces north and east of Baghdad, and Hamas Iraq for political Iraqi Resistance Council together.

Individual evidence

^ "Meeting Resistance: New Doc Follows Iraqis Fighting US Occupation of Their Country" | Democracy Now! | Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. | Retrieved 08/01/08 | "Know Thine Enemy" | New York Times | October 21, 2007 | Retrieved 10/21/07: "Meeting Resistance is directed by acclaimed journalists Molly Bingham and Steve Connors. In a video op-ed for the New York Times published Wednesday, they cite Pentagon reports between 2004 and '07 to claim 74% of attacks by Iraqi insurgents target US-led occupation forces. They also cite a recent BBC / ABC poll which found 100% of Iraqis polled disapproved of attacks on Iraqi civilians. " @1@ 2