The Islamic emirate of Fallujah

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Pepe is always good.

Taliban leader Mullah Omar, one of America's most wanted, would love it: it's the new Kandahar, the Afghan city that was once the Taliban stronghold. Under Sharia (Islamic) law: Fallujah is now totally under the control of the Sunni Iraqi resistance and their emirs (chieftains). More than 10,000 mujahideen armed to their teeth rule more than 500,000 people, just 50 kilometers west of Baghdad.

Writers and professors in Baghdad with close family and tribal ties to Fallujah have explained to Asia Times Online the new order. In today's Fallujah, every military commander is an emir. They may be strident, conservative Salafis, philosophical Sufis, al-Qaeda admirers, former Ba'ath Party army officials, former secret-service agents, or even the average neighbor, a father of six.

If you qualify as an emir, you are a leading member of what is popularly described as "the Iraqi resistance" in control of "liberated Fallujah", a region off-limits to US troops ever since the United States handed over control of the city in May after a month-long siege.

Along with local imams and tribal chiefs, all emirs are also part of a Shura, a mujahideen council, created last winter and directed by two imams, Abdallah Janabi and Dhafer al-Ubeidi.

Asia Times

[teryang]

1. Very interesting

I expect the city to be heavily bombed after the American elections in November.

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2. Certainly, there are "planners" thinking about that.

But November is still 3.5 months away. 3.5 months ago was
the first of April. Things change fast. I'm still waiting to
see if we get some sort of organized push, to see if Allawi
survives until November, to see what happens next, it's like
a Bruce Willis movie. You keep expecting Ahnuld to ride up and
kill all the towelheads, and then you realize that is Hollywood
shit and it's not going to happen like that at all.