Six Iraqi insurgent groups have joined forces to form a "political council" and "liberate" Iraq from US occupation, Al-Jazeera television said on Thursday, as violence in the country killed at least seven people. A US rights group announced Thursday it was filing a lawsuit against private security contractor Blackwater on behalf of a survivor and the families of three victims of a deadly September 16 shootout in Baghdad.
A spokesman for the "political council of the Iraqi resistance" was shown on Al-Jazeera with his face blacked out, announcing the formation of the coalition to liberate Iraq.
He said it comprises the four factions of a so-called "jihad and reform front" - the Islamic Army in Iraq, the Mujahedeen Army, Ansar al-Sunna-Religious Committee, and the Fateheen Army. The two others that have joined are the Islamic Front for Iraqi Resistance and the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas in Iraq, the spokesman said.
This is going to be very bad news for our fighting men and women in Iraq.
So they are going to be more aggressive toward our soldiers, we are going to beef up the number of troops in the area to protect ourselves, and the cycle just continues indefinitely.
I think that this really illustrates how the Iraqis will respond to he challenge of establishing a government and getting control of their country. It will be bloody, it will not be Democratic, and it is inevitable. We are doing nothing but sticking our fingers in a dyke that is guaranteed to burst open at some point.
It can happen with us in the country catching bullets and shrapnel, or outside of the country offering humanitarian support to the refugees.
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