By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

The US, which a couple of days ago announced the end of its so-called combat mission in Iraq, is in for a rude shock if its military personnel linger on Iraqi soil after December 31.
In connivance with some of its agents in the interim government in Baghdad, the world’s topmost terrorist state with its hands dipped in the blood of over two million Iraqi people, said a part of its troops would remain to provide ‘assistance’, ‘advice’, and ‘training’ to the Iraqi forces.
This is sheer nonsense and open interference in Iraqi affairs, if not outright occupation of the country, as stated by leaders of the anti-terrorist Hashd ash-Sha’bi or the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), which by 2017 had routed the US-armed Daesh takfiri terrorists.
What assistance? What advice? What training?
These are the questions raised by the overwhelming majority of the Iraqi people, whose real representatives are the PMU, and who very well know the worthlessness of American military training, let alone claims to advice and assistance.
The whole world knows how the US-trained Iraqi government forces used to break ranks and run at the sight of the Daesh terrorists, who were advised by the Americans to commit all sorts of atrocities and crimes against the people and their religious sanctities.
As for US assistance, it was entirely to the benefit of the takfiri terrorists for whom American aircraft would drop crates of weapons on the pretext of bombing them, while the actual bombing was done on the positions of the PMU.
In view of these undeniable facts, there is no trust in the US amongst the Iraqi people, who are well aware how miserably the American-trained Afghan army collapsed when confronted by the lightly armed Taliban militia.
The Iraqi people also know the gross inability of the US-trained Saudi and UAE armies in facing the forces of Yemen’s Popular Ansarullah Movement on the battlefields, while indulging in the cowardly aerial bombing of civilian centres, including schools, mosques, hospitals, markets, residential quarters, electric grids and waterworks.
These realities mean, it would be suicidal for the US troops to linger on Iraqi soil after the end of the current year, unless the Joe Biden regime has kept ready body bags in advance to bring the remains of its soldiers home.
So, don’t play with fire and don’t belittle the iron resolve of the Iraqi resistance forces, which are better armed than the Afghan Taliban, have the valuable experience in overcoming and destroying American armaments that were used by Daesh, their greatest weapon is belief in Islam, and the determination to defeat the occupiers of their country.
Moreover, the greatest weapon of the PMU that is absent in the American arsenal is belief – in God Almighty, in the Prophet of Islam, and in the Infallible Imams of the Ahl al-Bayt.
Inspired by the indomitable spirit to avenge the innocent blood of the icons of anti-terrorism Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Iran’s Qassim Soleimani, the Iraqi Muslim masses and their representatives the PMU have vowed to rid their country and the region of the illegal presence of all CENTCOM terrorists.