Al Qa'idah (AQ) - Tarbiyah Jihadiyah

Islamic history, they sided with the occupiers and began to commit extreme aggression against theSunni fighters, the Sunni women, and even took over Mosques belonging to Sunnis'.Shi'a fighters began forming alliances with the USA troops, arriving in US tanks to fight against any IraqiSunni resistance by regime loyalists, or Islamic based groups. Many Saddam loyalists took up arms todefend themselves against the American invasion, soon to be followed by Islamic resistance groups,with the likes of Ansar al-Sunnah, and a group called Tawhid wa al Jihad.A civil war would soon begin. The Sunni population had to defend themselves against the Shi’a majority.Prison-Breaks:Many innocent Sunni Muslims whose family members had resisted the Americans and Shi’a werecaptured in notorious prisons like Abu Ghraib where women were raped by US led soldiers, the famousletter of Abu Ghraib from a Muslim woman can be found on Youtube even today. They complain to theMuslim fighters to destroy the prison in its entirety for the prisoners, since death is better thanhumiliation for the Muslim women. The Islamic Fighters did responded and staged specular attacks todestroy it.There are spectacular stories of one person performing a 'martyrdom-operation' (exploding a bomb beltattached to his body) next to the gates of the prison. Followed by this new open passageway werearmed fighters who storm the prison, shoot any guards while the prisoners revolt and possibly evensnatch the weapons of the guards. They were then able to escape prison and rejoin the insurgencycause.This tactic spread to Afghanistan too, a case in 2011 shows how the Taliban dug a 1 kilometre tunnelfrom Taliban countryside territory, towards the Prison. They then attacked and stormed the prison fromthe outside, distracting the guards while the prisoners escaped through the Tunnel back to Talibanterritory.The civil war begins:Men who were part of the Saddam Baathist regime had left their army posts and fled, fearing for theirlives now that being members of the army was a threat for their lives (from both the US army and theShi'a). Those who had been oppressed amongst the Shi'a (the majority 80% population of Iraq) wouldsoon come after these ex-Saddam army men. This made them turn to religion, Islamist Sunni fighters,and God for support. The peak of the Sunni-Salafi resistance in AQI would reach its peak in 2006-7 whenthey had over 60, 000 Sunni men fighting by their side against US led forces and the Shi'a of southernIraq.Saddam's men were preparing for a US led war in advance. They had cached millions of tones ofweapons and explosives underground in different areas of North Western Iraq (Sunni dominated). Theyhad opened their borders up to anyone wanting to help them fight the invasion, and this is when manyMuslim veterans from Afghanistan entered into Iraq.12