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Subject: SicuroIMS Reports: Daily Fast Facts Iraq
Incident Review | 15 June 2014
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Clashes
14-06-2014
Attack on Iraqi cleric convoy kills eight guards in Ishaqi
Location : Ishaqi, Salahaddin
Incident summary : Gunmen attacked the convoy of the deputy head of Iraq’s Shi’ite religious endowment
on Saturday resulting in hours- long clashes and 8 guards being killed and 10 wounded.
Sheikh Sami al-Massudi said his convoy was ambushed near Ishaqi, as it made its way to
Samarra. Ishaqi was retaken from militants on Saturday.
Gunmen were hiding in farmland next to the road, and opened fire on the convoy with
machineguns and sniper rifles. The fighting lasted from Saturday morning into the
afternoon.
The endowment is a major organisation that manages Shi'ite religious sites in Iraq.
Real-time incidents: Verified
14-06-2014
100 security members clash with ISIL trying to take over Tikrit air base

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Location : Tikrit
Incident summary : 100 security forces clashes with ISIL insurgents on Saturday at the Speicher Air Force
base in Tikrit.
The insurgents surrounded the base with the security forces inside. Clashes were still
ongoing as of Saturday afternoon.
Real-time incidents: Verified
14-06-2014
Peshmerga kill 2 ISIL fighters in checkpoint clash
Location : Tajneed area, Jalawlaa district, north east Baquba
Incident summary : A force from the Peshmerga killed two ISIL elements of northeastern Baquba on
Saturday in clashes erupting from ISIL insurgents attacking a security checkpoint in
Tajneed area of Jalawlaa district of northeastern Baquba.
Real-time incidents: Verified
14-06-2014
Clashes in Muqdadiya and Udhaim as rebels close in on Baghdad
Location : Muqdadiya and Udhaim, Diyala
Incident summary : A force from the Peshmerga killed two ISIL elements of northeastern Baquba on
Saturday in clashes erupting from ISIL insurgents attacking a security checkpoint in
Tajneed area of Jalawlaa district of northeastern Baquba.
Real-time incidents: Verified
International Intervention
14-06-2014
US sends warship to Gulf, Iran prepared to help fight insurgents
Incident summary : The US ordered an aircraft carrier, the USS George HW Bush into the Gulf in case
Washington decides to pursue a military option to fight the Sunni insurgents in Iraq.
Ships like the USS George H.W. Bush, which are equipped with sophisticated anti-ship
and anti-aircraft missiles, are often used to launch airstrikes, conduct surveillance
flights, do search, rescue, humanitarian and evacuation missions, and conduct seaborne
security operations, a U.S. defense official said.
Meanwhile, Iran says it could be prepared to work with the US to fight the insurgency.
The Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that Iran would contemplate
cooperating with the US on restoring security to Iraq if it saw Washington confronting
"terrorist groups in Iraq and elsewhere".
This comes a day after President Barack Obama announced, "We will not be sending
U.S. troops back into combat in Iraq".
"Given the nature of these terrorists, it could pose a threat, eventually, to American
interests as well," he cautioned.
He said he had asked his national security team to prepare "a range of other options" in
support of Iraqi security forces. "I'll be reviewing those options in the days ahead," he
added.
Real-time incidents: Verified
Government Security Response
14-06-2014
More than 288 ISIL killed in Salahaddin, Diyala and Anbar
Location : Salahaddin, Diyala and Anbar
Incident summary : In Salah il-Din, Diyala and Anbar, more than 288 ISIL elements were killed in different
security operations, security forces said Saturday.
Real-time incidents: Verified
14-06-2014
Ishaqi and most of Salahaddin back in military control
Location : Ishaqi & Salahaddin province
Incident summary : Security forces continued fierce clashes with insurgents on Saturday, managing to regain
control of three towns in Salahaddin province.

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Major General Qassim Atta says most of the province has been returned to the control
of the Iraqi military and security forces also took back territory on the edges of Nineveh
province.
The army also reasserted control over the small town of Ishaqi, southeast of Samarra, to
secure a road that links the city to Baghdad and the cities of Tikrit and Mosul further
north.
Real-time incidents: Verified
14-06-2014
Iraqi army division merges with Kurdish forces to guard Kirkuk
Location : Kirkuk
Incident summary : An Iraqi army division has joined forces with Kurdish militias in a bid to protect the oil-
rich Province of Kirkuk from attacks by militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant, a senior provincial security official in the province said.
Mohammed al-Jibouri of the provincial security commission said the 12th division of
the Iraqi armed forces was still holding ground in its base in Kirkuk. Kurdish militias
known as Peshmerga have advanced on Kirkuk following news that Iraqi armed forces
had abandoned their positions in the face of a possible attack on the city by ISIS.
However, Jibouri said the Iraqi army division entrusted with defending Kirkuk was
closely coordinating with Kurdish Peshmerga to repel any such attack by ISIS.
“Iraqi army 12th division and Peshmerga forces have formed a joint command and are
working together to secure the provincial borders” of Kirkuk, said Jibouri.
Jibouri said the new joint command center was operating from the headquarters of the
Iraqi army 12th division. “The security situation in the provinces south of Kirkuk and in
the Province of Kirkuk itself necessitates a joint security effort,” he said. Jibouri denied
reports the division had abandoned its headquarters and that its units had fled.
However, he said certain provincial towns, which reportedly have been overrun by ISIS,
were in need of “large military forces to recapture them.” Jibouri also revealed that Iraqi
troops were closely coordinating with Kurdish Peshmerga in other districts.
He said Peshmerga units were pouring into some areas of Kirkuk in support of the army
to prevent security breaches.
Peshmerga forces had moved into the restive district of Tooz, the district official said.
Another official admitted that ISIS militants had penetrated the province and that they
were in control of part of Baghdad-Kirkuk highway.
Second-hand Source Reporting
Asset Attack
13-06-2014
Insurgents control Iraq's largest oil refinery in Bayji
Location : Bayji, Salahaddin
Incident summary : Local workers and Interior officials have confirmed insurgents have seized Iraq’s largest
oil refinery in Bayji on Friday.
The Bayji facility processes 320,000 barrels per day and is fully intact, it continues to
operate under orders from the militants.
Insurgents are also in control of the nearby Ajeel oil field according to sources.
The Iraqi government had said it had sent additional forces to secure the refinery, but
army has largely collapsed before onslaughts by insurgents, deserting en masse and
leaving behind weapons depots and arms.
Real-time incidents: Verified
Announcement
14-06-2014
Maliki threatens to execute army deserters, vows to defeat rebels
Incident summary : Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has called on his countrymen to take up arms and
defend the nation regardless of which sect they belong to in a tough address to army
officers broadcast on state television on Saturday.
Maliki said the cabinet had granted him unlimited powers to confront the fighters from
the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and associated Sunni rebel groups.
"Samarra will not be the last line of defence, but a gathering point and launchpad,"
Maliki told officers in the city, which lies about 125km north of the capital on the road
to rebel-controlled Mosul.

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"Within the coming hours, all the volunteers will arrive to support the security forces in
their war against the gangs of ISIL, Maliki, who leads the Shia-dominated government,
said. "This is the beginning of the end of them."
Also in the televised address, Maliki threatened to punish army deserters “to the
utmost, with punishments that rise to execution.”
A pandemic of desertion seems to be hitting the Iraqi Army as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)
advances on their positions, with major cities falling with little opposition as most of the
defenders take off their uniforms, drop their weapons and run away.
Maliki tried to paint this as a positive situation, saying “frankly this was our chance to
get rid of those cowards and weaklings,” and that it will result in an improved army in
the long run.
Real-time incidents: Verified
14-06-2014
Military spokesman says forces regaining territory north Baghdad
Incident summary : A top Iraqi general and military spokesman said on Sunday that Iraqi forces were
regaining terrortity from insurgents north of Baghdad insisting there is no risk to
Baghdad, blaming the media for exaggerating the danger. Other reports from the north
indicated howere that fighting was continuing in several places and that insurgents were
fully in control of other places.
Gen. Qassim Atta, who is now the official spokesman for the Iraqi military, said at a
news conference that the Iraqi army had re-taken several towns along the highway
connecting Mosul to Baghdad, and had secured the city of Samarra, which has a major
Shia shrine that the militants had threatened to destroy. At one point, militants of the
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria had come to within 88km of Baghdad.
“The security in Baghdad is 100 per cent stable, the majority of Salahuddin province has
been regained, the morale of the security forces is very high,” said, Gen. Atta, who until
recently was director of operations for the National Intelligence Service of Iraq, but
apparently was appointed military spokesman in the midst of the present crisis.
“Don’t count on what the media are saying, it’s not correct or accurate,” he said. “We
have distinguished operations underway and we will announce details after they’re
finished, after we start a new battle in Salahuddin, in Diyala, in Nineveh and Kirkuk.” But
residents reported that militants had seized control over Udhaim, the capital of Diyala
province, about 80km north of Baghdad
Gen. Atta gave few concrete details of the Iraqi gains, other than to say that Iraqi
security forces had “liberated Baiji, Balad, Dujail, Ishaki and al Dulwayiha”, towns in
Salahuddin province. Local journalists in Salahuddin, however, said fighting was still
going on in those places. Insurgents downed a military helicopter in central Tikrit just
north of Baghdad, according to eyewitnesses.
Second-hand Source Reporting
Air Strike
14-06-2014
Air strikes around Tikrit, which is still held by rebels
Location : Tikrit, Salahaddin
Incident summary : Air strikes were conducted around the city of Tikrit in Salahddin on Saturday as
insurgents still control the city. According to a source, insurgents planted landmines and
roadside bombs at the city’s entrances.
Iraqi helicopters continued air strikes around the city battling with the rebel fighters.
Real-time incidents: Verified
14-06-2014
Bayji air strikes kill more than 200 ISIL fighters
Location : Bayji, Salahaddin
Incident summary : Iraq’s air forces have killed more than 200 ISIL fighters in Bayji City on Saturday.
A security source stated that the insurgents were killed when they were bombed by the
Iraqi Air Force in one of the arcades in Bayji City.
Real-time incidents: Verified
14-06-2014

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Air force bomb ISIL south Mosul, dozens killed and injured
Location : South Mosul
Incident summary : In southern Mosul, Iraqi Air Force bombed the ISIL elements and killed and injured
dozens of them on Saturday.
Real-time incidents: Verified
14-06-2014
7 Kurdish security forces killed in Jalawla, Diyala air strike
Location : Jalawla, Diyala
Incident summary : In Jalawla, Diyala, seven members of the Kurdish security forces were killed in an
airstrike on Saturday.
However, the secretary general of the Kurdish security forces said that only two people
had died near the town of Jalawla in what he described as shelling, and that it was not
yet clear whether Iraqi forces or militants were responsible.
Real-time incidents: Verified
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