Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘Mustafa al-Athari’

Mistakes aren’t important. Learning from them is what matters

Last night I wrote about Sunni military advisers helping the majority Shia Iraqi security forces (ISF) in Fallujah. Well, today I discovered that the Iraqis’ predicament was much worse than reported. They made a lot of mistakes when entering Fallujah. But that isn’t really a major problem. When the Iraqis found themselves in terrible trouble,…

 

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Sunni Muslim military advisers during the Battle of Fallujah

Sunni Muslim military advisers are in Iraq, helping the majority Shia security forces defeat the Islamic State. An Iraqi judicial councilman confirmed this. In addition, the Saudis are training and equipping Shia fighters. Below are Yemenis who the Saudis trained and equipped. And these are men of Moqtada al-Sadr’s Peace Brigades. The old ways are…

 

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