The mystery of the fall of Baghdad
Iraqi general reveals the secrets of the fall of Baghdad
Revealed a former Iraqi general secrets about the fall of Baghdad, stressing that the Ministry of Defense prevented from planning and management of the battle of Baghdad, although it is concerned.
Said Major General Mizher Taha Ghanam staff officer in the Iraqi Ministry of Defense during the war and now serves as chief of police in Salahuddin province, said in an interview with Xinhua, "through the office at the corner of the Ministry of Defense is allowed me access to much during the war, I confirm that the sudden collapse was a surprise to us at the Ministry of Defence.He said Ghannam, "did not allow the Ministry of Defence plans to defend Baghdad and to manage its battle so it was the Ministry's role secondary and entrusted this task to the Republican Guard and he oversaw the Republican Guard and led by Qusay's son, former President and this man was not a military but also is a graduate of the Faculty of Law."He Ghannam "before more than a year of the war prepared the Defense Ministry preparing and turned the cities of Iraq to put an easily defensible in terms of packing and preparation on the ground and creating defensive positions successively and the distribution of piles equipment and materials supply the fighting and plans were drawn up defense for the defense of all the cities of Iraq, and calculated many accounts, including give up some of the cities with important secondary focus on the defense of sites of strategic importance of the task and by the importance of these cities and a section of Iraq to the areas to avoid the case of communication breakdown has been appointed the leaders of these regions, but unfortunately, the leaders were not military leaders but they are as political. "He said Ghannam, "there is the principle military is a must refrain from pushing the pieces before organize, train and create the attribution of administrative and fiery her when to not be these things ready to find piece of military itself in a critical and you can not lead its duty and this is what happened, that the attacking forces advanced from the axes are no where pieces of heavy and benefited from their ability to poll also had collaborators largely from outside Iraq, or within, military units of the Republican Guard found itself paralyzed and could not play a role in defense of Baghdad and the Pentagon were banned by the political leadership to manage the battle of Baghdad. "He stressed Ghannam that there are other reasons led to the rapid collapse of a poor performance, neglect and Altgosairr many things, including poor leadership, and not to create defensive positions correctly and not to create a theater of operations correctly and this led to confuse the general situation and said that "the soldier who does not have a position to fight how to fight? if they were not system barriers in front of him how to fight? If there is no attribution of a bullet enough to him how to fight? If you do not assign an administrative and there is no clear plan how to fight and even the pieces that come to strengthen the move in these difficult circumstances and cut hundreds of kilometers and up to Baghdad and find a place where it is fighting led to confusion and poor performance. "He said Ghannam that what happened from the contradictions in the leadership and the prevention of military commanders professionals to perform their role due to security reasons, because Saddam was afraid of the military coup that did not carry out their duties the main defense of Baghdad and said, "The Republican Guard did not have a leader, a variety alien to us as the military was the Republican Guard chief of staff and appointed Qusay Saddam supervisor him as the leader and the best of my knowledge that the chief of staff possesses no real decision to act on Guard, but the real decision, however, Supervisor, who is a civilian has the experience of a few In my opinion, that the Republican Guard is not available to him appropriate leadership was not ready right conditions in defense of Baghdad and the Minister of Defense did not have the necessary powers and can not issue an order inconsistent with the directives of the commander of the southern region, Ali Hassan al-Majid, commander of the North or Izzat al-Duri or others so the military leaders who were bound and marginalized. "He continued by saying, "To my knowledge told Qusay and Minister of Defense that the defense of Baghdad, the task of the Republican Guard and the Ministry of Defence as it only be a spectator in this aspect, stressing that the Defense Department was confident that appropriate measures are not taken in defense of Baghdad and the reality."And the battle for the airport which was considered the beginning of the collapse, said Ghannam, "in the Ministry of Defense since the early days, we told them (leadership) that the first target will attack in Baghdad is the international airport and we had perfect clarity to this subject because we put ourselves forward."
Revealed a former Iraqi general secrets about the fall of Baghdad, stressing that the Ministry of Defense prevented from planning and management of the battle of Baghdad, although it is concerned.
Said Major General Mizher Taha Ghanam staff officer in the Iraqi Ministry of Defense during the war and now serves as chief of police in Salahuddin province, said in an interview with Xinhua, "through the office at the corner of the Ministry of Defense is allowed me access to much during the war, I confirm that the sudden collapse was a surprise to us at the Ministry of Defence.He said Ghannam, "did not allow the Ministry of Defence plans to defend Baghdad and to manage its battle so it was the Ministry's role secondary and entrusted this task to the Republican Guard and he oversaw the Republican Guard and led by Qusay's son, former President and this man was not a military but also is a graduate of the Faculty of Law."He Ghannam "before more than a year of the war prepared the Defense Ministry preparing and turned the cities of Iraq to put an easily defensible in terms of packing and preparation on the ground and creating defensive positions successively and the distribution of piles equipment and materials supply the fighting and plans were drawn up defense for the defense of all the cities of Iraq, and calculated many accounts, including give up some of the cities with important secondary focus on the defense of sites of strategic importance of the task and by the importance of these cities and a section of Iraq to the areas to avoid the case of communication breakdown has been appointed the leaders of these regions, but unfortunately, the leaders were not military leaders but they are as political. "He said Ghannam, "there is the principle military is a must refrain from pushing the pieces before organize, train and create the attribution of administrative and fiery her when to not be these things ready to find piece of military itself in a critical and you can not lead its duty and this is what happened, that the attacking forces advanced from the axes are no where pieces of heavy and benefited from their ability to poll also had collaborators largely from outside Iraq, or within, military units of the Republican Guard found itself paralyzed and could not play a role in defense of Baghdad and the Pentagon were banned by the political leadership to manage the battle of Baghdad. "He stressed Ghannam that there are other reasons led to the rapid collapse of a poor performance, neglect and Altgosairr many things, including poor leadership, and not to create defensive positions correctly and not to create a theater of operations correctly and this led to confuse the general situation and said that "the soldier who does not have a position to fight how to fight? if they were not system barriers in front of him how to fight? If there is no attribution of a bullet enough to him how to fight? If you do not assign an administrative and there is no clear plan how to fight and even the pieces that come to strengthen the move in these difficult circumstances and cut hundreds of kilometers and up to Baghdad and find a place where it is fighting led to confusion and poor performance. "He said Ghannam that what happened from the contradictions in the leadership and the prevention of military commanders professionals to perform their role due to security reasons, because Saddam was afraid of the military coup that did not carry out their duties the main defense of Baghdad and said, "The Republican Guard did not have a leader, a variety alien to us as the military was the Republican Guard chief of staff and appointed Qusay Saddam supervisor him as the leader and the best of my knowledge that the chief of staff possesses no real decision to act on Guard, but the real decision, however, Supervisor, who is a civilian has the experience of a few In my opinion, that the Republican Guard is not available to him appropriate leadership was not ready right conditions in defense of Baghdad and the Minister of Defense did not have the necessary powers and can not issue an order inconsistent with the directives of the commander of the southern region, Ali Hassan al-Majid, commander of the North or Izzat al-Duri or others so the military leaders who were bound and marginalized. "He continued by saying, "To my knowledge told Qusay and Minister of Defense that the defense of Baghdad, the task of the Republican Guard and the Ministry of Defence as it only be a spectator in this aspect, stressing that the Defense Department was confident that appropriate measures are not taken in defense of Baghdad and the reality."And the battle for the airport which was considered the beginning of the collapse, said Ghannam, "in the Ministry of Defense since the early days, we told them (leadership) that the first target will attack in Baghdad is the international airport and we had perfect clarity to this subject because we put ourselves forward."
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