Baladi News – (Hossam Mohammad)
Sources in the People’s Mobilization emphasized the deployment of the militia over a long distance on the Iraqi-Syrian borders to prevent the inflow of ISIS fighters from Syria.
Controlling the borders by the mobilization coincides with the disclosure of leaked documents that reveal that the militia entered Syria early in 2016 to fight alongside Assad’s militia under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
The media, political, and military support for the mobilization is synchronized with western media emphasis that the militia is committing unreasonable crimes. The German Der Spiegel magazine described the forces fighting to reclaim Mosul city as “monsters rather than heroes.”
However, in Iraq Moscow follows a policy that is similar to what it has been doing in Syria, which is based on supporting criminal militias and neglecting the rightful public demands. The Russian formal and informal media started lauding the Iranian militias, in what seems as an international effort to plunge the area into a sectarian devastating war that will harm everyone.
Syrian politician and military analyst, Colonel Mohammed Khair Al Attar, said, “this impetus given to the Iraqi Mobilization as well as the glorification of Assad and the sectarian militias in Syria establish the scheme that Assad started early in 2011, which aims at turning the Syrian revolution into an internationally sanctioned sectarian war between the Sunnite majority and Alawite minority.”
The speaker added that “supporting the presence of these militias would be the key to scorching the region for long decades to come after extensive studies made by great powers. Supporting Shiite Jihadists against the Sunnite ones aims at pushing each party towards more religious extremism, and this would give rise to the policy of retaliation and counter-retaliation, consolidating the survivable “Creative Chaos.”"