Jaish al-Ta'ifa al-Mansurah
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Jaish al-Ta'ifa al-Mansurah جيش الطائفة المنصورة | |
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Leaders | Abu Omar al-Baghdadi †[1] |
Dates of operation | 2004 – 16 October 2006 |
Active regions | Iraq |
Ideology | Salafist jihadism Anti-Shi'ism |
Part of | MSC (from 15 January 2006) |
Opponents | Iraq United States Mahdi Army Iraqi Kurdistan Islamic Army of Iraq |
Battles and wars | Iraq War |
Jaish al-Ta'ifa al-Mansurah (Arabic: جيش الطائفة المنصورة, romanized: Army of the Victorious Sect) was an Iraqi Salafi-jihadist insurgent group that fought against US troops and their local allies during the Iraq War. In 2006 the group aligned itself with al-Qaeda and helped establish the Mujahideen Shura Council.
History
[edit]The group was founded by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi with the support of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, but exactly when is uncertain.
In May 2004, Jaish al-Taif al-Mansour kidnapped Interenergoservice workers Alexander Gordienko and Andrei Meshcherakov[2] and demanded the withdrawal of foreign forces from Iraq.
This group gained notoriety on August 31, 2005,[3] thanks to the mortar shelling near the Al-Aim Bridge over the Tigris River, across which a Shia procession marched to the tomb of Imam Musa al-Kazim. As a result of the bombing, 7 people were killed and 35 injured,[4] and the crush on the bridge estimated that between 953 and 1,033 people were killed and between 322 and 815 injured in what became known as the 2005 Al-Aimmah Bridge disaster.
On January 15, 2006, an organization known as the Mujahideen Shura Council in Iraq announced its establishment. Jaish al-Ta'ifa al-Mansurah has been declared one of its constituent groups, along with al-Qaeda in Iraq, the Monotheism Brigades, the Sarai al-Jihad group, the al-Ghurab Brigades and the al-Ahwal Brigades.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ A biography of Abu Ayyub Al-Masri by IS militant and media influencer Abu Khattab al-Falluji revealed that JTM was led by Abu Umar al-Ansari which was Abu Umar Baghdadi.
- ^ "Российские заложники в Ираке живы". 17 May 2004.
- ^ "Смерть в панике".
- ^ https://www.alriyadh.com/91346