The relative ease with which insurgents have taken control of major cities in Iraq suggests former military officers and others may have joined forces with jihadists to target Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Shiite-led government, Edmund Ghareeb told RT.
“What also makes this interesting and what raises a lot of questions about what’s going on is that there are many forces fighting under the name of ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant),” said Ghareeb, a professor at American University, adding that the many groups have a common enemy in Maliki.
He added that there could be “Iraqi officers, who are from Saddam Hussein’s army, who come from the Tikrit area and the Mosul area, and probably that explains [how] military tactics were used, because these were very effective. There was professional planning here.”
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