US,
Saudis feeding intelligence to Daesh in Mosul: Hashd al-Shaabi commander
Saudi Arabia is the
“mother of all terrorism,” says the second-in-command of the Iraq’s Popular
Mobilization Units, Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes.
Mohandes made the
remarks during an interview with the al-Alam television network on Saturday.
He stressed that both
the Daesh and al-Qaeda terrorist groups are the product of Saudi Arabia, and
that Daesh's psychological and media campaign is partially funded from Riyadh.
Mohandes noted that the
operations to free Mosul from the Takfiri terrorists will take some time as the
militants are receiving intelligence from several external sources, mainly the
US.
He went on to praise
Iran’s support for Iraq’s battle against terrorism, stressing that if Baghdad
had not called for Tehran’s assistance, the Iraqi army would never have reached
Mosul.
He also noted that the
Hashd al-Shaabi forces, also known as the Popular Mobilization Units, will move
on towards Tal Afar after Mosul is cleared of Daesh militants. He stressed that the
units’ goal is not just to push back Daeshis, but to destroy them.
Iraqi army troops,
backed by Hashd al-Shaabi and Kurdish Peshmerga forces, are closing in on
Mosul, Daesh’s last stronghold in Iraq, from almost all directions in a
full-scale operation launched on October 17.
Iraqi troops managed to
enter Mosul’s limits earlier in the week for the first time since June 2014,
when the city fell to Daesh amid a large-scale terror campaign in northern and
western Iraq. So far, a large number of the villages and districts around the
city have been purged of the terrorists. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi
has vowed that the country’s second largest city will be fully recaptured by
year-end.
Source: Press Tv
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