Breaking News: Iraq Exclusive Insider Story of the Battle that just Saved the War
THE TRUTH ABOUT LAST WEEK’S KILLING OF 263 INSURGENTS IN ONE BATTLE. THE BATTLE THAT ACTUALLY KEPT THE COUNTRY FROM FINALLY BEING RIPPED FULLY APART.
Alright, let’s just cut to the chase and get to the straight facts. The battle was indeed waged against a cult. The cult is called The Army of Heaven, and is one of the type of which Iran’s President Achmedinejad belongs: a cult which believes that the return of the Islamic Messiah, the Mehdi, is due to happen within months or a few years. The battle happened strictly as the result of some intel luck, and in fact was probably the most important battle of the entire insurgency thus far, as it was not important as a victory in numbers, but important in that it averted what would have almost certainly, finally, fully ripped the country apart. It averted the murder of Iraq’s supreme Shiite leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani and most of the country’s other top Shiite clerics. And make no mistake, this was no joke, no weak, foolish attack. Had luck and quick reaction not prevailed, the odds are great the cult would have succeeded: 1,000 armed Army of Heaven warriors descended murderously on the Shiite clerics. The battle that ensued was savage, the biggest since the U.S. liberation of Iraq, and nearly lost by the Iraqi Government and U.S. forces.
Iraqi soldiers stand guard near the bodies of militants after a battle in Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Jan. 30, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
Close to the last minute, the Iraqi National Security Advisory was tipped off to the imminent attack. It dramatically and breathlessly sent the country’s top Scorpion Brigade to stop the bloodbath. They descended on the Army of Heaven, but after only 15 minutes of hellish fighting, realized they were outnumbered and outgunned, and far up shit’s creek with maybe half a paddle. In an emergency reaction, American fighter planes, helicopters, and two full infantry battalions rushed into the fray. The battle was so savage, and took place over such a wide area, that it in fact lasted three days ( Jan. 28 to Jan. 30 ), not one as earlier reported, and resulted in not only the death of 263 cult members, it’s leader Mahdi bin Alie bin Abi Taleb, but also the capture of 200 Army of Heaven warriors who of course are now under interrogation.
What else is known is intriquing: before the attack the cult had been infiltrated and incited by both Al Qaeda and Iranian agents. Is Iran now so intent on finalizing civil war in Iraq, that it in fact worked with the Sunni Al Qaeda to murder it’s own fellow Shiite clerics in Iraq?
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