A senior Iraqi lawmaker and head of a top anti-terror organization says Baghdad has set a timetable for the expulsion of the US occupation forces from the Arab country.

A senior Iraqi lawmaker and head of a top anti-terror organization says Baghdad has set a timetable for the expulsion of the US occupation forces from the Arab country.

Hadi al-Amiri, head of the Fatah (Conquest) Alliance in Iraq’s parliament and leader of the Badr Organization, made the announcement in an interview with Al-Ahad TV on Saturday.

Pointing to the presence of foreign troops, including Americans, in Iraq, Amiri said, “The decision to withdraw these forces from Iraq is an irreversible decision and we will soon release a timetable for that.”

  • CyberMonkey404
    51·
    3 months ago

    Hadi al-Amiri, head of the Fatah (Conquest) Alliance in Iraq’s parliament

    I suspect nuance is lost in translation. Why is it called “conquest”? Conquest of what?

    • Franfran2424@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      3 months ago

      The full name of the movement is Ḥarakat al-Taḥrīr al-Waṭanī l-Filasṭīnī, meaning the “Palestinian National Liberation Movement”. From this was crafted the inverted and reverse acronym Fatḥ (generally rendered in English as Fatah), meaning “opening”, “conquering”, or “victory”.[30] The word fatḥ is used in religious discourse to signify the Islamic expansion in the first centuries of Islamic history – as in Fatḥ al-Shām, the “conquering of the Levant”. Fatḥ also has religious significance in that it is the name of the 48th sura (chapter) of the Quran which, according to major Muslim commentators, details the story of the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah. During the peaceful two years after the Hudaybiyyah treaty, many converted to Islam, increasing the strength of the Muslim side. It was the breach of this treaty by the Quraysh[31] that triggered the conquest of Mecca. This Islamic precedent was cited by Yasser Arafat as justification for his signing the Oslo Accords with Israel.[32][33]