A statement from Iraqi Armed Forces General Command
Dignified Iraqi people!
Our brothers, our sisters and our cousins in the Arab nation!
Since the sacred land of Iraq has been maculated by the invaders-occupiers and by those who collaborated with them from inside and outside Iraq, your brothers belonging to the heroic Armed Forces were absolutely determined and resolute, first because they deeply believe in God Almighty and second, they stood steadfast defying and resisting this occupation and its creations which led to the present sectarian strife fomented and inflamed but still denied by the US occupation, its stooges and those with filthy intentions.
Since that very time your brothers and your sons and daughters in the Armed Forces came forward with their field command to combat the enemy on our soil according to a clear strategy and in a successful tactical style, which made the enemy lick its wounds,drink the venomous cup of his deeds and of his wicked plotting.. We got organized in an extremely secretive way as you can imagine to avoid infiltration and early uncovering for our factions and commands which always provided the heroic armed Jihadi Resistance brigades, with the qualified combatants, who are able to plan, to maneuver and to execute the operations in the field.
We in the General Command of the Iraqi Armed Forces, we do declare our responsibility concerning many heroic operations undertaken by your sons and your brothers on the most beloved soil of Iraq -we shall in the appropriate time confirm what we say through documents - and declare to the whole world that the Iraqi resistance is pure Iraqi in blood and identity undertaken by dignified Iraqis from the Armed Forces and the heroic national armed Resistance factions. Moreover the Command declares its condemnation of whatever act, which targets defenseless civilians.
Sons and daughters of the Arab nation!
Sons of Great Iraq!
The bloodthirsty Occupation machine was never able to eradicate your heroic army, rather here is your army with its officers, all the ranks of its soldiers, and includes within its ranks all the components of dignified Iraqi people. This Army doesn't belong to any party, doesn't represent any side or any community at the expense of the other.. It is the United Army for the united Iraq which was and will always be, God willing, the shield for this homeland cooperating with all the good people from our Arab and Islamic nation and the freedom loving people from around the world until achieving the objectives, which we can summarize as the following:
1 - To liberate Iraq from the Occupation's rapacious claws and assert its sovereignty, its independence, and its unity and achieving its liberty to use its economical riches in order to insure a dignified life for the people in general.
2 - To re-organize the Iraqi army on the patriotic, quality and loyalty basis, and provide it with the most advanced arms and equipment according to the Iraqi army's doctrine.
3 - to liberate all the prisoners and detainees held in the Occupation and its collaborators imprisonment's camps, those who were held and jailed because of their patriotic stand, which rejects the Occupation.
4 - To combat all sectarianism and ethnic phenomenon fomented and inflamed by the Occupation and its collaborators in order to tear down Iraq, and its national unity; the Army will do whatever possible to ensure security and peaceful life for all its sons.
5 - To demand compensation for all the damages suffered by Iraq on the material, and moral level due to the Occupation and due to the embargo which led to its occupation.
Ye Iraqis!
Be reassured! You have brothers who vowed and took an oath in front of God and the Nation and they promise you to sacrifice their blood to achieve the objectives above. Here we would like to increase your confidence in what we said above, that is why this Command declares the names of its factions on the operations' field level and they are:
1 - "Al Mansour Forces Command" In Baghdad district
2 - "Saad Ibn Abi Waqqas Forces Command" in Diyala district
3 - "Al Hamza Forces Command" Salah al Din's district
4 - Dhu al Fuqar Forces Command" Dhi Qar district
5 - Abu Ubaida Forces Command" in Central Euphrates
6 - Al Hussein Forces Command" in al Anbar district
7 - Mohammad al Qassim Forces Command" in al Basrah district
8 - "Al Rashid Forces Command" in Al Ta'amim district
9 - "Amurya Forces Command" in Nineveh district
Dignified Iraqis!
When we announce this, we have profound confidence that we do act in amongst our family and brothers and for their sake; and we swear by the great gracious God, by the immaculate soil of Iraq, by the blood of our innocent martyrs, by the honor of the freedom loving honorable men and women of Iraq, by the innocence of our infants, and by the suffering of our mothers and our elderly that we will remain prepared to sacrifice ourselves and ready for martyrdom until liberation and until achieving our objectives.
God is the Greatest and victory for Iraq!
God is the Greatest and dignity for Iraq!
God is the Greatest and unity for Iraq!
General Command of the Armed Forces
Iraq on the 4th April 2006
* Translated from Arabic by Abu Assur – Al-Moharer.net