On the 12th anniversary of the largest execution in modern history:
The “Speicher” anniversary proves every year that confrontation in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Gaza and Lebanon is the most effective, least costly and painful option.
Between 2012 AD and 2014 AD, Yemen witnessed assassinations in Sanaa and mass executions in Abyan and Hadramaut carried out by ISIS, similar to “Speicher.”
The Revolution / Ibrahim Al-Wadaei
Yesterday, Friday, marked the 12th anniversary of the Speicher massacre in Iraq, which is one of the bloodiest and most horrific crimes and executions in modern history, which was committed by the criminal organization “ISIS” – created by America and Zionism and funded by the Gulf, according to the testimonies of Hillary Clinton and Senator John McCain before the US Congress – in Iraq in June 2014.
Iraq officially commemorated the hideous massacre, as the families of the martyrs flocked to the crime site on the banks of the Tigris River in the city of Tikrit, which witnessed in 2014 AD, and over the course of five days, between 1,700 and 2,000 young men with a sectarian identity were slaughtered and killed, according to estimates, amid the silence of the people – at that time – and their observations without action to prevent or stop the crime..
In the details of the event, ISIS invaded the city of Mosul and quickly expanded towards Saladin Governorate and took control of the city of Tikrit on June 10, 2014 AD. Meanwhile, there were thousands of young recruits and military students (most of them from the central and southern governorates) were present at Speicher Air Base north of Tikrit to receive training.
After the area was besieged, orders were given to the recruits (unarmed) to leave the base in civilian clothes, and while they were leaving and walking on the roads, they were subjected to a process of deception and luring by ISIS members and some of their collaborators from the local tribes, who deluded them that they would transport them to safe areas, but they were arrested and taken in trucks to the presidential palaces in Tikrit and the banks of the Tigris River.
On June 12 and 13, 2014 AD, the organization began carrying out brutal mass executions by direct shooting at the heads and necks of the victims while they were lying face down in trenches and mass graves that had been dug in advance. Hundreds were also executed on the banks of the Tigris River and their bodies were thrown directly into the Tigris River until the river water was dyed red.
ISIS photographed these horrific scenes and published them on its media platforms to spread terror. It also allowed the crowd to take pictures for the purpose of publishing and creating an aura of terror.
Official Iraqi statistics and human rights reports indicate that the number of victims ranged from 1,700 to 2,000 unarmed young conscripts, making it one of the largest mass executions carried out within a few days in contemporary history.
After the liberation of the city of Tikrit in 2015, Iraqi forces and forensic teams found dozens of mass graves that contained the remains of victims, and their identities were identified through DNA testing.
The Speicher massacre remains a deep wound in Iraqi and humanitarian memory, and a witness to the extent of the brutality of the Zionist and American project in the region, as they were the creators of ISIS. Over the course of two years, “Israel” killed about 50,000 Palestinians and wounded nearly two hundred thousand others, and the killing is still continuing in Gaza. What happened there is witness and practical evidence of who stood behind ISIS and its crimes in the region.
In order to convince Congress before the launch of ISIS, Senator John McCain said before the launch of ISIS and its appearance in Syria, “This represents a golden opportunity for America, as there will be an army of extremists fighting to achieve America’s interests and financed from outside its coffers. Rather, it will reap gains, at a time when the losses in its ranks will be zero.”
Before Hillary and Clinton, during the Zionist war of aggression against Hezbollah, the US Secretary of State heralded the creative chaos that would spread across the region, describing it as painful and likening it to birth pangs and the resulting bloodshed. However, Hezbollah’s victory in the July 2006 aggression dealt a blow to the American project. Washington’s duty was to transfer ISIS to Syria, Iraq and other countries, according to statements by former Mossad chief Mossi Yadlin in 2011, where he referred to a major project to reshape the region. Work is being done on it in Yemen, Sudan and Iraq. He admitted that the July war dealt a blow to the project, but did not stop it, but rather forced its transfer to other countries, including Yemen, Sudan, and Iraq, which later appeared with the spread of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, and its public appearance in Yemen between 2013 AD and 2020 AD, where Iraqi-style slaughter operations took place in Hadhramaut, Abyan, and Shabwa of recruits being taken off buses, and cities were stormed, as happened in Abyan in the south of the country.
American and British channels also documented the participation of Al-Qaeda and ISIS in fighting alongside the coalition forces in Taiz, Al-Bayda, and other areas, before they were completely eliminated in Al-Bayda with a joint military operation by the army and the popular committees in 2020 AD in the areas of Qifa and its environs.
The scenes of Al-Julani wearing a scarf, opening his arms to the Jews, opening southern Syria and the Syrian airspace to the Israeli aggression against Iran, and helping to destroy the capabilities of the Syrian army. Also, the scenes of his forces walking side by side with the Zionist forces without being shot at, but rather subject to the laws of the incursive Zionist patrols, are practical witness to the role played by these criminal groups, from Al-Qaeda to ISIS and Al-Nusra, in serving American projects and those who actually finance and manage them..
Iran, along with the resistance forces in Iraq and Yemen, was able to strike terrorist organizations and eliminate them in Iraq, Syria, and Iraq in a few years, despite American support and espionage for these groups, considering them their project that must remain relevant to the region.
The international coalition to confront ISIS was the embrace to which ISIS resorted and the way to finance it with weapons, after Hajj Qasim Suleiman moved and built the Popular Mobilization Forces to confront ISIS. Pictures documented American helicopters in Dohuk, Iraq, carrying ISIS leaders after forces from the Mobilization Forces surrounded them.
The Americans targeted the great commander Hajj Qassem Soleimani in January 2020 AD, and Trump tweeted the American flag, and the targeting of the great jihadi leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in September 2024 AD by an American decision when he was the head of the enemy’s government in America ironically, and with American planes and bombs – “Israel was nothing but a cover headline. At the funeral of His Eminence, American planes flew in a display of vanity and arrogance over the mourning crowd and the stadium that embraced the pure body, and later Israeli planes flew over – As the two great men dealt the final blow to a major project that its operators and creators never imagined would collapse so quickly, the Americans were talking about the 20 years it would take the international community to eliminate ISIS and the criminal groups associated with it.
On the 12th anniversary of the Speicher massacre, there are facts that can be extracted from the painful massacre and the ensuing confrontations that led to the elimination of ISIS, and that it is the bloody American project in the region.
• The sacrifices made by the resistance forces in Iraq and Syria remain less than the blood that was planned for them to be shed, and the state of terror that was destined to remain in the region under the auspices of malicious Zionism and the American and Israeli administration. The resistance forces were able to prepare for that project and end the pain instead of it continuing and worsening, its danger increasing every day, and the chances of confrontation weakening later..
• The end of the ISIS project and the elimination of McCain’s army – if the name is correct – resulted in the operators entering the arena of confrontation after the outbreak of the flood, and the first layer of agents emerged, represented by the regimes and governments loyal to the United States, to wage war alongside it, after Wahhabism had been destroyed, in a pivotal moment that represented a positive step for the resistance forces more than for those who did it – Bin Salman took a pivotal step in ending the Wahhabi project on the island, coinciding with another blow to the Wahhabi project in Yemen at the hands of supporters. God, when the Gulf states were struck, the Wahhabi crumbs like Al-Afasy were unable to rouse anyone – and thus the equation became clear: America, Israel and their allies in the region are against the axis of Islamic jihad and resistance, starting from Gaza and reaching Sanaa.
• Yemen, the Speicher massacre proved that abandoning the fighting is the worst choice a person can make in his life, and that the decision to confront in Yemen on March 26 against the American-Saudi aggression, which was taken by Commander Abdul Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, was the most correct decision, despite what the equations showed at the time of the impossibility of steadfastness and the differences in capabilities, and today the ability that Sana’a has reached and the equations that it imposes regionally due to its steadfastness, trust in God, and development. Its capabilities provide evidence of the correctness of that decision and the choice of fighting, confrontation, and seizing weapons.
• Regionally, the same situation applies in Gaza, where resistance remains more positive than surrendering to the Israeli enemy to do whatever it wants in the Gaza Strip through its army and tools. In Lebanon, the current confrontation has shown that the option of confrontation and not being drawn into handover projects after the late 2024 confrontation and the martyrdom of the leaders has shown its effectiveness and correctness at a time when the Lebanese authority is drowning in the mire of normalization, along with the humiliated people who are seething with anger. Hezbollah has returned as a real force and Israel has returned to a place of terror from it.
• The decision to confront gives an opportunity for victory or survival, which is what happened in practice and was presented as evidence by the towns of Nubl and Al-Zahra in eastern Syria, which were besieged in 2012 AD by ISIS and Al-Nusra and withstood the waves of ISIS invasion and siege until the siege was lifted in 2016 AD after four years during which they faced a harsh siege, daily bombardment, and amazing resilience as two bright spots in a sea of darkness that spread in eastern Syria. Opportunities say that Survival is almost non-existent, while with the humiliating decision to surrender and surrender, as the Speicher recruits did, any chance of survival is impossible.
• One of Speicher’s evidence is that the American project and its arms lack credibility and morals. When Speicher’s recruits surrendered themselves, they were promised to reach their towns, but they were betrayed and slaughtered just as livestock are slaughtered and without any human dignity. This is what Islamic Iran, the Qur’anic leadership in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Palestinian resistance factions are aware of today in the face of America and its allies who only understand the language of force and lack morals and principles. And credibility, this was demonstrated in the confrontation with Iran, in Yemen, in Iraq, in Gaza, and in Lebanon.
If there are any conclusions in the Yemeni field and the region, and the confrontation is raging with the heads of the project, America and Israel, and their tails in the Gulf and the region, and it does not seem to indicate a stop until the decisive stage, then it is important that the “Speicher massacre” be present in Iraq, especially as it is going through the challenges imposed by the American occupation and the deception of the agents, and in the popular Arab and Islamic mentality, that the golden rule says that “the choice of confrontation guarantees another opportunity that surrender does not provide, and that sacrifices are important.” Perhaps it would still be less costly than the humiliating surrender of the Jews and the Zionist project with all its aspects.
