Jaish al-Ta'ifa al-Mansurah

The group was founded by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi with the support of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, but exactly when is uncertain.

In May 2004, Jaish al-Taif al-Mansour kidnapped Interenergoservice workers Alexander Gordienko and Andrei Meshcherakov^[2] and demanded the withdrawal of foreign forces from Iraq.

This group gained notoriety on August 31, 2005,^[3] due to the mortar shelling near the Al-Aimmah Bridge over the Tigris river, across which a Shia procession marched to the tomb of imam Musa al-Kazim. As a result of the bombing, 7 people were killed and 35 injured,^[4] and another 935-1033 people died and 322-815 were injured in the ensuing stampede on the bridge in what became known as the 2005 Al-Aimmah Bridge disaster.

On January 15, 2006, an organization known as the Mujahideen Shura Council in Iraq announced its establishment. Jaish al-Ta'ifa al-Mansurah was declared one of its constituent groups, along with al-Qaeda in Iraq, the Monotheism Brigades, the Saraya al-Jihad group, the al-Ghurab Brigades and the al-Ahwal Brigades.

• Al-Qaeda in Iraq
• Iraqi insurgency