By Staff, Agencies Secretary General of Iraqi resistance movement ‘Asaib Ahl al-Haq’ Sheikh Qais al-Khazaali stressed that the US presence in Iraq aims to protect the security of the "Israeli" entity. Al-Khazaali’s remarks were made during a Monday address on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr.

Questioning the intentions of the US military forces withdrawal, al-Khazaali said that "the American presence in Iraq is in order to protect the security of the ‘Israeli’ entity." He further stressed that "there is a popular and courageous public will that refuses to keep any foreign force on Iraqi soil." "We are not warlords, not bloodthirsty, but patriots, and we are looking for the dignity and sovereignty of the nation," he added. Al-Khazaali further voiced the Iraqi resistance’s readiness to pay lives and blood for dignity and sovereignty: “We are not warlords nor thirsty for blood, but patriots, and we are searching for the dignity and sovereignty of the homeland." "The United States, which is a superpower, could not match one Iraqi faction," al-Khazaali concluded