The Battle of Baghdad (Law Enforcement)

[salim]

حقيقة مذبحة بساتين النجف

 

شبكة البصرة

 

بعد انتهاء المسرحية المفبركة لاشتباكات النجف يوم أمس وما نسجت عليها حكومة الصفويين من أكاذيب تزكم الأنوف تنفرد مفكرة الإسلام بنشر حقيقة هذه الاشتباكات التي جرت أمس في منطقة الزركة شمال شرق النجف وتكشف أبعاد ما حدث وحقيقة القتلى بالأسماء والأماكن الدقيقة.

 

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كما ينتمى أغلبهم إلى حزب البعث ومنهم عبد الكريم الحاتمي عضو قيادة فرع حزب البعث لمدينة الديوانية واللواء الركن جعفر خير الدين الحاتمي والطيار علاء الحاتمي أحد أبرز الطيارين العراقيين

 

Same sadamist site listed some main figures of the tribe that these terrorist belog to..

 

" Most of them are baathists among them AbdulKarim Alhatamee, member of Baath Party in Diwania, general Jaafer Alhatamee and army pilot Allaa Alhatamee, one of the main army pilots "

 

The web site now is saying that what happened had nothing to do with claimed Heaven army. The site is saying that the governement forces wiped out the pilgrims with no reason but because they are True Shia that have good relation to Sunni Aldharee "the clergy who openly praised Qaeda !

[salim]

Those who had the chance to witness and watch the Tawireej march of millions of Iraqis denouncing the tyrant rules and praising the symbol of freedom that their Imam Husain represented over history, might came to one conclusion. The era of freedom of ME is just started .. when such huge masses don't care of the threats by Sadamists and Qaeda who tried their best to stop it by car bombs , suiciders and media , there must be something already happened .

 

Husain who planted the seed of resistance and dignity is flowering today . The day of Ashouraa in Karbala.Such plant might not have the chance without being irrigated by the blood of thousands of freedom lovers. Let us pray for all of them !

Many people thought the Ashoura observance as religious one, I don't think of it that way. I know it in out, it is a huge social event .. The religious part of it is just a cover ..

[salim]

معارك في النجف وكربلاء :

 

"مهدويون "ضد "المرجعيه " : عراقيون يقاتلون قتالا حسينيا في عاشوراء

 

 

 

كتابات - عبدالامير الركابي

 

Sadamist politician Abdalameer Alrikabee, praising the Heaven Army and denouncing Alsadrees for not standing to help.. Seems that there are a lot of evidence that the Heaven army are nothing but a faking Sadamist undercover..

[salim]

Senator Dod today asked a very legitimate question "How it is possible that we send our kids to a place where most polls showing that majority has hostile attitude toward our presence"..

 

No answer was made to such good question, I would like to put my view on it.

 

Majority of Iraqis who ran into the horrible sufferings over the the last four years, think that the blame should go to the Americans because of the US policy of not bringing Iraqis on board up to stand facing the terrorists. There are many reasons for that but for Iraqis this was the policy..

 

On contrary same majority would make a very different attitude toward the current change of policy that support the government and push hard on terrorists..

 

So simply the answer is related to the policy not to the presence..

[salim]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...Id=7084589'

Chaos' Reigns in Iraq, Speaker Pelosi Says

 

 

I don't think any one would debate the discovery by the respected first madam speaker, the issue is how to solve it though..

She was correct in blaming the administration for all the delay in bringing Iraqi Army up to the speed and in giving Iraqi government more authority to manage the security file the Iraqi way..

What I don't understand is the tone that Americans shouldn't be involved in helping Iraqi government in building it's forces .The Speaker is kind of giving impression that the mission is already done by removing the dictatorship. She might forget that the mission completion should be the installing of the new system that can apply law and order .Pelosi's statement that the fight against alqaeda is there in Afghanistan and not in Iraq was way far from reality. While might be the case four years ago,, one might wonder how many Qaeda suiciders were there in Afghanistan, compared to those Qaeda ones that hit Baghdad streets alone..

 

I was so surprised how much far she is from Iraqi details on wondering why maliki, as elected PM, didn't' bring amendments to the constitution or change to Baathification law .. If that is the main issue in Iraq then She would have been paid a visit to the Iraqi Speaker Dr. Mashehadani where this issue is supposed to be resolved.. What does PM hadve to do with this ? The Constitution that brought Maliki to power , is same that asked the Parliament solely to do it .. She might hear from Mashehadani about who is behind the delay of the amendments.

 

Maliki main task is to apply law and order as first priority and to fix the Chois that Pelosi is talking about. All Iraqis are looking for that, I doubt any is thinking of any other issue. As for those who kill Iraqis , they don't care about the constitution or debaathifaction, for them they want to go back to power, no less than that!

[Mutergem]

I got this from a friend ! comparing Somalia and Iraq..

 

Two points that I don't agree on your account about Somalies.. The recent history showed a very stupid behavior specially when the Americans gave had to them ten years ago. Another is that religiously strict Somalians keep a very hostile attitude to Christian Ethiopians ..Also The way Sadamists run away was much more faster than the Islamists of Somalia.. You need to remeber that quiet good percentage of Qaeda Suiciders are from Somalia. Iraqis used to call then Sudanees! One of them , I recall , tried to expode him self in Karbala two years ago. My cousin who was the Karbala court judge , told me he saw him crying so loudly. Upon approaching him asking if he needs any help, his reply was that he is crying for not being able to have the promised lunch with profit that day by Killing Iraqi Muslims !

 

For the first four months after the fall of Sadam , the situation in Iraq was so calm and stable that no one even expected.. The question is what went wrong to get the country into the chaotic situation as it is now?

 

 

 

I agree with you that What I call chaotic equilibrium, is the best model to get the most solid system.. I don't agree that we need to run a large scale civil war to exercise that , what is happening now is teaching enough lessons to Iraqis that Lebanese might took twenty years to learn..

 

The main critical lesson that Sunni Arab learned, is that violence would do no thing but to make their rival Shia stronger and coming together. It teaches the Shia that stretching majority muscles wouldn't mean denying others right in deciding the fait of the country.. Kurds also learned that their prosperous and flourishing can't be achievable without a stable unified strong Iraq that can protect their fragile autonomous system

 

 

 

Hope I am right, if so we need to see action in the next critical six months!

[Mutergem]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/images/02/02/nie.3.pdf

 

Inteligence report..!

[BahirJ]

February 2, 2007

Intelligence Report Predicts Spiraling of Violence in Iraq

By MARK MAZZETTI and DAVID STOUT

 

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 — A much-anticipated assessment of Iraq by America’s intelligence agencies describes a worsening cycle of chaos in the country, and predicts that the sectarian strife will continue to fracture the country without bold actions by Iraqi politicians.

 

And even if violence is diminished, prospects for a political reconciliation in the country are dim “given the current winner-take-all attitude and sectarian animosities infecting the political scene,” the assessment warns.

 

The assessment, titled "Prospects for Iraq’s Stability: A Challenging Road Ahead", begins with this blunt conclusion:

 

"Iraqi society’s growing polarization, the persistent weakness of the security forces and the state in general, and all sides’ ready recourse to violence are collectively driving an increase in communal and insurgent violence and political extremism.

 

"Unless efforts to reverse these conditions show measurable progress during the term of this estimate, the coming 12 to 18 months, we assess that the overall security situation will continue to deteriorate at rates comparable to the latter part of 2006."

 

The term “civil war” accurately describes key elements of the conflict, including “the hardening of ethno-sectarian identities,” the report says, but the overall struggle is more complicated. The report points to a lethal stew of Iraqi-on-Iraqi bloodshed across and within ethnic lines, Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgent attacks, “and widespread criminally motivated violence.”

 

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates called the term “civil war” a “bumper-sticker answer” that oversimplified the reality of overlapping conflicts. “I believe that there are essentially four wars going on in Iraq,” he said at a Pentagon briefing today, citing Shia-on-Shia strife, principally in the South; sectarian violence, largely in Baghdad; the Sunni insurgency, and attacks by Al Qaeda.

 

The assessment contains the consensus judgments of the 16 agencies that make up the intelligence community and is sure to fuel the debate within Congress and between some lawmakers and the White House over what to do.

 

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic majority leader, called the document “the latest in a long line of bleak assessments by foreign policy and military experts indicating the president’s plan is flawed and failing. This conclusion is shared by a bipartisan group of Congress and an overwhelming majority of Americans.”

 

In general, the assessment is gloomy about the eroding security in the country and the prospects for Iraq’s government to reign in the violence between Sunni and Shia sects.

 

The report also argues against a withdrawal of American forces from Iraq, concluding that a rapid military pullout “almost certainly would lead” to carnage worse in scale and scope.

 

Some of the report’s judgments were first reported today in The Washington Post.

 

There are a few grains of optimism. The Iraqi security forces have shown “real improvements,” the report says, even though they are unlikely to be able to assume greater responsibilities and battle Shiite militias successfully in the next 12 to 18 months.

 

And the assessment says that some developments “could” help to reverse the downward spiral: broader Sunni acceptance of the political structure; concessions by Shiites and Kurds to “create space” for Sunni acceptance, and “a bottom-up approach” to help mend frayed tribal and religious relationships.

 

But prospects for better relations between Shiites and Sunnis are clouded by the Shiites’ deep feelings of insecurity spawned by decades of subordination by the Sunnis under Saddam Hussein — and the Sunnis’ lack of respect for the central government and reluctance to accept their minority status now. Moreover, the Kurds, while “willing” to take part in building a new Iraq, are reluctant to surrender the autonomy they have achieved recently, the report says.

 

The Kurds are a particular concern to Turkey, which does not want Iraq to disintegrate and is determined to eliminate the safe haven in northern Iraq for a Turkish Kurdish terrorist group, the assessment notes. But while Iraq’s neighbors, especially Iran and Syria, “influence and are influenced by” events in Iraq, they probably do not have enough influence to stabilize Iraq because that country’s “internal sectarian dynamics” are self-sustaining, the documents states.

 

The report says Iraq could break apart “with grave humanitarian, political and security consequences” through a deadly mix of sectarian killings, assassinations of political and religious leaders and the complete Sunni repudiation of the government. Moreover, the documents says, many of Iraq’s professional and entrepreneurial people have already fled their country.

 

Should the worst happen and the new country fall apart completely, the assessment sees three possible outcomes, all dire:

 

Widespread fighting could produce “de facto partition” of the country into “three mutually antagonistic parts” and spawn “fierce violence” among Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds for years. A second possibility is that a new strongman could emerge, a Shiite this time, instead of the new democracy envisioned by the Bush administration. Finally, there could be anarchy, with resulting instability and bloodshed.

 

At the Pentagon briefing, Defense Secretary Gates declined to comment in detail on the new intelligence estimate, which he said he had not read, and sought to play down the importance of the debate over whether Iraq is in the midst of a civil war.

 

"When I think of a civil war I think of thousands of people out in the streets,” he said. Instead, in Iraq, he said he sees "gangs of killers going after specific neighborhoods or specific targets,” or attacks on marketplaces meant to cause random suffering.

 

As for recent efforts by the Iraqi government, he said officials appeared to be delivering, at least in part, on the first of a series of benchmarks for progress agreed upon between Baghdad and Washington.

 

Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who was also at the briefing, said that two of the four Iraqi army brigades promised as reinforcements in the capital as part of a new security plan had arrived, a third was en route and the fourth was scheduled to arrive by the end of February.

 

"Contrary to what has happened in the past, the units that were designated” for deployment in Baghdad are being sent, he said.

 

But the units that have arrived are at only about 60 percent strength, a figure that General Pace said was not acceptable. "They do need to flesh them out,” he said. "They need to get the people back who are with their families. It needs to be stronger than that.”

 

Absenteeism is a chronic problem in the Iraqi security forces, in part because the lack of a working banking system means that soldiers are granted leave to deliver their pay to their families, and troops have sometimes refused assignments. In other cases, units do not want to leave the region in which they are based. Last summer, when the Iraqi government ordered troops to Baghdad to help with an earlier security effort, many of the them refused to go, American military officials have said.

 

Democrats in Congress have complained that the Bush administration has refused to make the list of benchmarks public, even as the president has sought to assure the public that the American commitment is not "open ended.”

 

Mr. Gates today said that he saw no problem in releasing the benchmarks, and described the earliest of them in general terms: "Are the brigades showing up, reasonably on time, in the numbers they need to be, are the politicians staying out of the decisions on which neighborhoods to go into, are the security forces allowed to go into all neighborhoods where there are lawbreakers?”

 

Mr. Bush and American commanders in Baghdad have blamed the failure of earlier security efforts there to the shortage of Iraqi troops and to restrictions placed by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, a Shiite, on the ability of American soldiers to pursue Shiite militia members.

 

Senior intelligence officials for months had provided glimpses of the new intelligence estimate in public testimony before Congress, including an assessment that sectarian violence is the most significant threat to Iraqi security, surpassing even Al Qaeda’s role in Iraqi attacks.

 

“Conflict in Iraq is a self-sustaining and growing cycle in which violent acts increasingly generate retaliation,” Lt. Gen. Michael Maples, who leads the Defense Intelligence Agency, recently told members of Congress.

 

“Insecurity rationalizes and justifies militias, in particular Shia militias and increases fears in the Sunni Arab community,” he said.

 

As the sectarian violence gathered steam over last summer, top Senators requested that Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte begin work on the new assessment, the first N.I.E. on Iraq since 2004.

 

National intelligence estimates draw analysis from America’s disparate intelligence agencies, and are written by officials at the National Intelligence Council.

 

The new report also draws conclusions about that ability of the Iraqi government to quell the violence and mend sectarian rifts in the country.

 

Last week, National Intelligence Council chairman, Thomas Fingar, told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee that the new N.I.E. concludes it will be “very difficult” for the Iraqi prime minister to deal with the violence and accomplish a national reconciliation, but “not impossible.”

 

"We judge that Maliki does not wish to fail in his role," Mr. Fingar said. "He does not wish to preside over the disintegration of Iraq."

 

John O’Neil contributed.

[salim]

rtsp://video.c-span.org/60days/whpb020207_hadley.rm

 

Nat'l Security Adviser Stephen Hadley on Iraq

[BahirJ]

Baghdad offensive to begin: U.S. officers

Sun Feb 4, 2007 9:02PM EST

By Dean Yates

 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S.-Iraqi campaign to stabilize Baghdad will begin soon and the offensive against militants will be on a scale never seen during four years of war, American officers said on Sunday.

 

Briefing a small group of foreign reporters, three American colonels who are senior advisers to the Iraqi army and police in Baghdad said a command center overseeing the crackdown would be activated on Monday.

 

"The expectation is the plan will be implemented soon thereafter," Colonel Doug Heckman, senior adviser to the 9th Iraqi Army division, said at a U.S. military base in Baghdad.

 

"It's going to be an operation unlike anything this city has seen. It's a multiple order magnitude of difference, not just a 30 percent, I mean a couple hundred percent," he added, referring to previous offensives that failed to stem bloodshed.

 

The plan will involve U.S. and Iraqi forces sweeping the capital's neighborhoods for militants and illegal weapons and then holding cleared areas. But some analysts fear that as in previous crackdowns, militants will simply melt away and wait them out, or strike in areas where they are not deployed.

 

All three officers sought to talk up the ability of Iraq's forces to perform better than in previous crackdowns.

 

Their comments came a day after a suicide truck bomb killed 135 people in a mainly Shi'ite area of Baghdad, the single biggest bombing since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

 

The joint offensive is seen as a last-ditch effort to halt all-out civil war between minority Sunni Arabs and politically dominant majority Shi'ites.

 

President Bush is sending 21,500 reinforcements, most earmarked for the Baghdad offensive.

 

Critics of Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki say an offensive last summer failed because the Iraqi army committed too few troops and because he was reluctant to confront the Mehdi Army of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

 

The firebrand cleric is a key political ally of Maliki.

 

NO BARRIERS

 

Asked if the Mehdi Army's stronghold in Sadr City would be cleaned out, Heckman acknowledged the political sensitivity but said all options were open.

 

"If we feel we need to clear Sadr City to bring stability, we will do that. Are there restrictions that will not allow us to do that? Right now there are not," Heckman said.

 

Maliki has vowed the crackdown will tackle militants across the sectarian divide. The Pentagon has said the Mehdi Army poses a greater threat to peace in Iraq than Sunni Islamist al-Qaeda.

 

The Baghdad command center that will begin operations on Monday will be headed by an Iraqi general. However, U.S. troops will not take orders from Iraqi officers.

 

Colonel Chip Lewis, senior adviser to a national police division in Baghdad, said the Iraqi security forces were more confident than they were before the last offensive. At that time, some Iraqi units did not show up.

 

Heckman said the offensive would gradually build up.

 

There was anecdotal evidence some militias had sought to melt away ahead of the campaign, the officers added.

 

"The end of the summer is when we should see some concrete results and be able to say is this working or not," Heckman said. That would be around September.

 

One problem that bedeviled last summer's offensive was the reluctance of Iraqi soldiers in the regionally recruited army to be deployed in the capital, far from their homes and families.

 

This time soldiers will get pay bonuses to come to Baghdad and will be given a finite tour of duty, so they know their deployment will not be open-ended, the American officers said.

 

Another difference would be the establishment of what the officers called joint security stations, which will be set up in nine Baghdad districts and where Iraqi and American troops will live and patrol side-by-side.

[salim]

There was a lot happened over the last week. The most important is the race with time that both the government and the terrorists groups are challenging. The second are not saving any time, the car bombs are going off the streets and markets of Baghdad at a non precedent rate, the casualties do same. From Mustensiria University, to Sader city market, to Karada shopping centers, to the poor used clothes market to the latest huge Sadriea poor market that leveled ten residential buildings. People in Baghdad are feeling much despair for the delay of the start of the execution plan. All know that it will start soon, may be the main goal of the terrorists is to push for starting it prematurely, or they are so afraid of it to launch such foolish and unexplainable targets, it might be a sign of nervous... They want the other party to retaliate in order to make it so messy that becomes impossible to apply the plan... What really astonished me was the level of control on the other side not to be dragged by the terrorists to that dirty game.

 

I think the terrorists know that stability is the killer to their dreams; others know that fact, too so no need to react! and leave it to government to apply law !

[salim]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/05/world/mi...ast/05iraq.html

 

Iraqis Fault Pace of U.S. Plan in Attack

BAGHDAD, Feb. 4 — A growing number of Iraqis blamed the United States on Sunday for creating conditions that led to the worst single suicide bombing in the war, which devastated a Shiite market in Baghdad the day before. They argued that the Americans had been slow in completing the vaunted new American security plan, making Shiite neighborhoods much more vulnerable to such horrific attacks.

 

 

Most blame was toward the Iraqi government , no one is pointing to Americans. They don't put much on the later beacuase they feel that Iraqis alone are realy able to apply security. Non of the Mustensyria university. Alghazil birds market, used clothes, Karada shopping center , and the latest Sadria market were under protection of Almahdi army. These are down town Baghdad mixed neighborhoods with some of them having Shia majority.. Non of them are inside Sader city..There were some minor attacks inside Sader city though

There is much hope by Iraqis that the Maliki plan with Iraqis in lead , would bring some stability to the torn down Capitol. There is a growning feeling that Maliki's plan is a completely different one. The execution of Sadam and level of firm by the governemnt against Haifa Sunni terrorists or Najaf Shia fanatics made it clear that the coming plan will be different.

 

 

An American military official, responding to accusations that American efforts opened Shiite areas to attacks, said American checkpoints around eastern and central Baghdad last October seemed to reduce the number of car bombs until the checkpoints were removed because of objections from Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and Shiite officials loyal to Mr. Sadr. The official was not authorized to comment about the subject and spoke on condition of anonymity.

 

We need to remember that non of the last two weeks bombings were inside the Ameican checkpoints rings around Alsader city which Almaliki ordered to remove.. During that exersize which prison the prime mover of the three million Baghdad working class from their jobs that parralized Baghada, worst bombing attacks had occured in Sader city!

[salim]

Finally, the long waited moment is there... I am not talking about the application of Maliki’s Apply-Law plan, but the approval of the 2007 year budget by the Parliament.

Watching the debate over the last four weeks and the entire churn associated with It., it came up to my mind a fun story of my Chinese friend’s father. He was on a visit during the last US election to his son in California... Watching the entire churn in media and huge expenses and people involvements, he approached his son with very smart question...” Why all that?” He said, “US people are stupid... In China we don’t waist such time on such non important issue of choosing a leader. The leader is there and that is all!

 

During Sadam’s era, no one in Iraq would bother or even dare asking about the year budget. Dade Sadam is taking care of it that makes sure to be to Iraq’s interests “mean Sadam’s pocket!”

 

This year budget is the largest in Iraq history, To ME standards; it is one of the biggest in the region.

Seems we are almost there to trigger the security plan start... The Parliament went into its vacation!

People are putting all their hopes on it ..

[salim]

On Iraqia, TV a Kurd legislator, Salih Abdullah, was asked of why he thinks that the coming security plan is different.

His reply was that it is not a plan; it is a strategy that supposed to work. Away from the new strategy components of security, financial, political and social aspects, the most important is that people are really fed up with all chaotic situation and insecure environment. Another factor, he added, that the people are evolved in a better understanding to each other and to be more aware of the political process!

 

I can’t agree more...

In a very encouraging move, the elderly and city mayor of AlSadr city issued an announcement that guarantee the safety of all Sunni families who either forced or chose to leave the city , for returning back to their homes and live side by side to their Shia neighbors as they used to . It asked the Sunni Endowments (Awqaf) to appoint their nominees to the Sunni mosques in the city.

A move was received very warmly by the new Sunni Scholar Association of Iraq, a rival to The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq led by AlDadree’s, which in its turn denounces any sectarian announcement by Iraqi politicians.

 

Those whom I talked to yesterday, from all sects are in a very encouraging mode and are very anxious to see the plan be implemented sooner rather than later.

[BahirJ]

ارغام لواء عراقي يقود حملة في بغداد على ترك منزله
Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:45 AM GMT
بغداد (رويترز) - حاول بعضهم أن يخفي العبارة المكتوبة بطلاء أسود على الجدار بالدهان لكن الكتابة العربية لا تزال مقروءة بصعوبة وتقول ان عليك ان تغادر في الحال.
ويقع الجدار الاصفر الشاحب اللون وارتفاعه متر واحد وتظلله اشجار البرتقال امام منزل متواضع من طابقين كان حتى حوالي شهر ديسمبر كانون الاول الماضي منزل اللواء عبود قنبر الرجل الذي اختير للاشراف على الهجوم الجديد في بغداد ضد المسلحين.
ويعتبر قنبر الذي ينتمي الى الاغلبية الشيعية في العراق هو نفسه ضحية للعنف الطائفي والتطهير العرقي الذي تهدف الحملة التي تساندها الولايات المتحدة الى قمعه. وتعتبر هذه الخطة الفرصة الاخيرة لمنع حدوث حرب اهلية شاملة.
قال الجيران لرويترز ان قنبر وهو رجل اصلع متوسط القامة في الستينات من عمره اخذ التحذير على محمل الجد وغادر حي اليرموك الذي تسكنه غالبية سنية الذي ظل موطنا له لاكثر من 20 عاما.
والمنزل خال الان ويرعاه الجيران. واذا كان الجيران وكثير منهم من الضباط السابقين من ذوي الرتب الكبيرة في جيش صدام حسين يعرفون اين يقيم قنبر حاليا الا انهم لن يفشوا السر.
وقال ضابط سني متقاعد يقيم في نفس الشارع "اننا نشعر بالحزن الشديد لقراءة مثل هذه العبارة الشريرة. واننا كجيرانه نشعر جميعا بالاهانة الى درجة اننا قمنا بتغطية الكتابة بالدهان الابيض. اننا لا نريد ان نقرأها كل يوم."
وكان سكان بغداد طوال تاريخها خليط من الطوائف لكن المسلحين الطائفيين يشنون حملة تطهير عرقية ويرغمون الكثير على الفرار من منازلهم والبحث عن ملاذ في مناطق تشكل طائفتهم الاغلبية فيها.
وكان الحي الذي اقام فيه قنبر موطنا لمجتمع متقارب من الضباط السنة والشيعة السابقين تتغلب زمالتهم العسكرية على اية توترات طائفية قد تنشأ بينهم. ووزعت مؤخرا منشورات تبلغ السكان الشيعة بالخروج من المنطقة.
وعلى بعد منزلين من منزل قنبر يقيم ضابط برتبة عميد وهو شيعي ايضا. وارغم ايضا على الخروج في نفس الوقت. ويقول الجيران ان التهديدات تزامنت مع قرار الرجلين في ديسمبر كانون الاول بالعودة الى الانضمام الى الجيش العراقي الجديد الذي يقوم الامريكيون ببنائه.
ولم ينشر شيء رسمي عن خلفيات قنبر ولم يتضح نوع الدور الذي قام به عندما انضم الى الجيش العراقي. ولم تستجب وزارة الدفاع العراقية لطلب معلومات عن فنبر.
ولم تعلن الحكومة العراقية بعد انه سيتولى قيادة عملية بغداد مع ان المتحدث باسم الجيش الامريكي الميجر جنرال وليام كالدويل قال في الاسبوع الماضي انه سيتولى ذلك.
وقدم جيران قنبر لقطات سريعة عن الرجل المكلف باثبات ان قوات الامن العراقية الجديدة التي ابتليت في الماضي بهرب افراد من صفوفها وضعف الانضباط والطائفية اصبحت الان قادرة على القيام بمهام القتال في بغداد.
وسيتولى قنبر الذي ينحدر من نفس عشيرة رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي القيادة العليا لتسعة ألوية عراقية في بغداد. ومع ان جنودا امريكيين سيعملون الى جانب قواته فانهم لن يكونوا تحت امرته.
قال عميد متقاعد "انه رجل شجاع ولديه خبرة طويلة في الجيش. واختيار قنبر كان خطوة صحيحة نحو اعادة الاستقرار لبغداد."
وقال الجيران ان الرجل المعروف عندهم باسم ابو حيدر كان قائدا لمشاة البحرية العراقية خلال حرب الخليج في عام 1991 واسره الامريكيون.
وعندما اطلق سراحه وضع صدام قنبر مثل غيره من اسرى الحرب في عمل يشبه التقاعد فيما سمي بمكتب قدامى المحاربين حيث لم يعد صدام يثق في عملهم بالجيش لكنه لم يكن يريد عزلهم تماما.
وقالوا انه في وقت لاحق استدعي للخدمة وتولى قيادة البحرية قبل عمله بمكتب المفتش العام بوزارة الدفاع ثم في النهاية مديرا لسلاح المشاة بالوزارة.
وقال احد الجيران وهو عميد سابق بالقوات الجوية "هذه المرة وضعت الحكومة الرجل المناسب في المكان المناسب" مشيرا الى حملة مماثلة في بغداد في الصيف الماضي فشلت في تهدئة العنف الذي لاقى الالاف حتفهم فيه.
وكرر هذا التعليق لواء سابق في الجيش قائلا "كنت واثقا دائما من ان الخطط السابقة كانت ستخفق لكن في هذه المرة يمكنني ان اقول لك ان قنبر سيكون مختلفا."