President Obama announced last week that American forces will leave Iraq by the end of the year. The decision was made when the administration failed to secure a Status of Forces agreement with the Iraqi government. Intelligence data has revealed that former Ba’athist political and ex-military officers were planning a coup to regain power they once had before Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.
Sunni leaders are becoming concerned that once the Americans leave the Shiite population will retaliate against them for past grievances. During Saddam Hussein’s oppressive reign the Sunnis ruled the larger Shi’ite population as members of the Ba’ath Party.
As reported in the New York Times,the late Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi supported former Iraq Ba’ath Party officials to overthrow the new Iraqi government. As reported,“Hussein Kamal,Iraq’s deputy interior minister,said the plot included agitators spread throughout the country’s south and just north of Baghdad,and had been planning “terrorist operations and sabotage” after the withdrawal of the United States military.”
This is the latest twist to the Iraqi government’s concern that the Sunni Ba’athists and former military officers will use the occasion of the American withdrawal to stage a coup. Iraqi Intelligence….
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