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Sunni militia group in Iraq
This article is about the group based in Iraq. For the Palestinian group, see
Hamas
.
Hamas of Iraq
(
Arabic
:
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,
romanized
:
?am?s al-'Ir?q
) was a
Sunni
militia group based in
Iraq
, which split from the
1920 Revolution Brigades
on 18 March 2007.
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The group claims to have released videos of its attack on US troops.
[4]
The
1920 Revolution Brigades
insists that Hamas in Iraq was involved in assisting US troops in their
Diyala operations
against
Al-Qaeda in Iraq
.
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[6]
former
Iraqi Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki
had feared the US-armed '
concerned local citizens
' were an armed Sunni opposition in the making, and has argued that such groups should be under the command of the Iraqi Army or police.
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On October 11, 2007, the militia group joined a political council that embraced armed insurgency against American forces.
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Political program
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Hamas in Iraq released a political program in April 2007 with some of the following provisions:
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- "The movement believes in armed
jihad
as a means for expelling the occupier, and calls on public opinion and agencies and international institutions to respect this right... of all peoples to resist occupation, and to distinguish between that and armed crimes which target innocent civilians."
- "We believe in a necessary link between military efforts and political action as two mutually supportive instruments for achieving the goals of resistance for liberation and salvation and preventing the fundamentalist movements from harvesting the fruits of the resistance."
- "We confirm the necessity of continuing the killing until the exit of the last soldier from the occupying armies, and to not negotiate with the enemy except with an agreement of the factions of the jihad and the Iraqi resistance; and under the appropriate circumstances and conditions."
In July 2007,
The Guardian
reported that the group participated with other insurgent groups in an alliance called the
Political Council for the Iraqi Resistance
, which includes a range of Islamist and nationalist-leaning groups which was formed to negotiate with the Americans in anticipation of an early US withdrawal. Main planks of the joint political program included "a commitment to free Iraq from foreign troops, rejection of cooperation with parties involved in political institutions set up under the occupation and a declaration that decisions and agreements made by the US occupation and Iraqi government are null and void."
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Emblem
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The logo represents an map of Iraq (1932-present) alongside a green flag saying "Indeed,we have given you a clear victory" in Arabic. Below the flag is Arabic Text saying "The Islamic al-Fath Brigade". To the right of the text and flag, there's a hand holding some sort of Islamic sword with the text below the map. "Islamic Resistance Movement" "Hamas - Al-Iraq"
Operations in Diyala in August 2007
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The
1920 Revolution Brigades
insists that Hamas in Iraq was involved in assisting US troops in their recent
Diyala operations
against
Al-Qaeda in Iraq
in August 2007.
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The insistences occurred when
The Washington Post
reported in a telephone interview with Lt. Col. Joseph Davidson, executive officer of the 2nd Infantry Division, U.S. forces were now "partnering with Sunni insurgents from the 1920 Revolution Brigades, which includes former members of ousted president Saddam Hussein's disbanded army."
[11]
The 1920 Revolution Brigades replied that: "We say to … the occupation and to your followers and agents that you made a very big lie" in linking us with the Diyala anti-Al-Qaeda campaign.
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The group maintains that the US military spokesman should have referred to "Iraqi Hamas", which consisted of Brigades before the operations.
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Post-2007
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On 16 June 2016, Hamas in Iraq, with the help of the
Iraqi Armed Forces
, liberated the city of
Fallujah
from the jihadist group of the
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
(ISIS).
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Denial of working with coalition forces
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