{"id":3610,"date":"2014-05-08T06:07:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T06:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3610"},"modified":"2014-05-08T06:07:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T06:07:29","slug":"iraq-sunni-leader-says-fallujah-under-complete-isis-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/05\/08\/3610\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq: Sunni leader says Fallujah under complete ISIS control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/rebels-in-Fallujah.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>The Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group is in complete control of the city of Fallujah and there are no government forces within the city limits, former Iraqi finance minister and deputy prime minister Rafie Al-Issawi told Asharq Al-Awsat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Issawi, who leads the Al-Mustaqbal Movement affiliated to the Sunni-led Mutahidoun Coalition, said he was in Erbil to seek a solution to the unrest that has engulfed Iraq\u2019s western Anbar province after ISIS forces took control of a number of cities last year.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe are here to meet with religious scholars and tribal sheikhs to discuss a formula that will resolve the crisis that has engulfed the province, and particularly the city of Fallujah which ISIS has taken complete control of,\u201d he said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As for the reasons why ISIS has been able to keep control of the city, he said: \u201cThis is due to the bad decisions of the military leadership and its lack of understanding of the security file in Anbar, not to mention the absence of military forces on the ground which gave ISIS the opportunity to take control of Fallujah.\u201d <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The former finance minister, who is a leading Sunni political leader in the country, blamed the Baghdad government\u2019s treatment of Iraq\u2019s Sunni community for the ongoing crisis. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He said that many local tribes had joined the ISIS forces due to actions by Iraqi security forces cracking down on anti-government protests that had taken place in the province prior to the ISIS incursion. \u201cRather than responding to the protesters\u2019 legitimate demands in Fallujah and Ramadi, the government chose the military solution, which prompted the tribes to take up arms to protect themselves.\u201d <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">However Issawi acknowledged that the government\u2019s fightback to retake the province from the ISIS rebels had witnessed some successes, saying that the provincial capital of Ramadi was now back under government control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span> <em><strong>Asharq Al-Awsat<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group is in complete control of the city of Fallujah and there are no government forces within the city limits, former Iraqi finance minister and deputy prime minister Rafie Al-Issawi told Asharq Al-Awsat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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