Saudi soldiers (Reuters/Fahad Shadeed)
Srikandi גבורה - Arab
Saudi telah menggerakkan 30,000 anggota tentera ke sempadan 800km dgn Iraq
berikutan dakwaan pengeluaran pengawal sempadan Iraq di tengah-tengah
pertempuran berterusan terhadap militan Sunni Islam. Baghdad menafikan menarik keluar
pengawal.
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Arab
saluran berita milik Al Arabiya dibebaskan video yg pd zahirnya menunjukkan
tentera Iraq berkata kerajaan mengarahkan mereka untuk berundur dari kedudukan
mereka di sepanjang sempadan dgn Syria di barat & di selatan Arab Saudi walaupun
jelas bahaya.
"Kami
tidak tahu mengapa," kata seorang pegawai dalam video, yang diperolehi
oleh ‘Al Arabiya’s sister channel Al Hadath’. Laporan itu tdk menjelaskan sama ada pengeluaran yang dikatakan termasuk sempadan Iraq dengan Jordan dan
Kuwait, kedua-dua di bahagian selatan negara ini, atau di utara Turki.
Kesahihan
video itu tidak dapat segera disahkan, tetapi laporan pengeluaran itu telah
dinafikan oleh seorang jurucakap kerajaan Iraq.
"Ini
adalah berita palsu yang bermaksud menjejaskan moral rakyat kami dan semangat
pejuang wira kami," kata jurucakap itu, Leftenan Jeneral Qassim Atta,
kpd pemberita di Baghdad. Tambahnya sempadan adalah "sepenuhnya dalam
genggaman" tentera sempadan Iraq.
Khamis
penempatan oleh Saudi Raja Abdullah yang dimaksudkan untuk melindungi negara
Islam Sunni terhadap potensi "ancaman pengganas" Arab agensi berita
SPA berkata.
Beribu-ribu
umat ‘Indian Muslim’ sukarela untuk melindungi tempat-tempat suci suci di Iraq Thousands
of Indian Muslims volunteer to protect holy shrines in Iraq
Kerajaan
Syiah Iraq adalah berjuang untuk menangkis kemajuan asas Islam Sunni, yang
ingin mewujudkan sebuah negara Islam di wilayah diukir dari Iraq dan Syria.
Baghdad hanya menerima bantuan ketenteraan terhad dari Amerika Syarikat,
sebagai Washington berkata ia tidak mahu menggunakan tentera darat di negara
ini sekali diduduki.
Idea
seperti penempatan yang telah turut membantah oleh Arab Saudi, asas raja Sunni dan
sekutu lama Amerika Syarikat.
Setakat
ini bantuan terbesar tentera Iraq nampaknya diterima adalah dari Syiah Iran.
SAUDI
ARABIA Deploys 30,000 troops at BORDER
After
Alleged IRAQi WITHDRAWAL . . .
Saudi
Arabia has deployed 30,000 troops to its 800km border with Iraq following an
alleged withdrawal of Iraqi border guards amid the ongoing battles against
Sunni Islamist militants. Baghdad denied pulling off the guards.
Saudi
state-owned news channel Al Arabiya released a video apparently showing Iraqi
soldiers saying the government ordered them to retreat from their positions
along borders with Syria in the west and Saudi Arabia in the south despite no
evident danger.
“We
didn’t know why,” an officer says in the video, which was obtained by Al
Arabiya’s sister channel Al Hadath. The report didn’t clarify whether the
alleged withdrawal includes Iraq’s borders with Jordan and Kuwait, both in the
southern part of the country, or Turkey in the north.
The
authenticity of the video could not be immediately verified, but the withdrawal
report was denied by an Iraqi government spokesman.
"This
is false news aimed at affecting the morale of our people and the morale of our
heroic fighters," the spokesman, Lieutenant General Qassim Atta, told
reporters in Baghdad. He added that the frontier was "fully in the
grip" of Iraqi border troops.
The
Thursday deployment by Saudi King Abdullah is meant to protect the Sunni
Islamic state against potential “terrorist threats” Saudi state news agency SPA
commented.
Iraqi
Shiite government is struggling to fend off the advancement of Sunni
fundamental Islamists, who want to create an Islamic state on territories
carved out of Iraq and Syria. Baghdad received only limited military assistance
from the US, as Washington said it does not want to deploy ground troops in the
country it once occupied.
The
idea of such a deployment was also objected by Saudi Arabia, a fundamental
Sunni monarchy and a long-time ally of the US.
So
far the biggest military help Iraq has apparently received is from Shiite Iran.
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