“These groups are still fighting and still active, they continue to carry arms. They are active in….Mosul, Diyala, Anbar, Salahuddin, Baghdad, Babil, and some on the outskirts of Basra and Kut.”-Adnan al-Asadi, Deputy Interior Minister of Iraq

“We are happy to declare the defeat of the occupation but the occupation has a project and the effects of this project still exist.”-Ibrahim al-Shimari, Iraqi Islamic Army

“The occupier has not left, they left an embassy which includes thousands of persons, and certainly those are not diplomats. We will keep fighting to drive the last U.S. soldier from Iraqi soil….Even the contractors who live with the Iraqi Army in its bases, we will target them.”-Sheikh Khalid al-Ansari, al-Rashideen Army