Five years later .. Nujaifi reveals the "real cause" of the fall of Mosul

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“He added that "the committee investigated with all the accused and witnesses and charged charges to 35 personalities by default, including the former prime minister and former governor of Nineveh, commanders of operations and police in the province as well as field commanders."

 

Maliki you can run but you can’t hide. Justice is chasing you.!

 

Go justice

Go punishment 

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2019/06/10 17:16

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Suron calls for the return of the fall of Mosul to the forefront

BAGHDAD / Al-Masala: The parliamentary bloc called on Monday, June 10, 2019, the return of the fall of the city of Mosul to the forefront, while called to deal with this file in a spirit of responsibility.

"Five years have passed since the fall of the city of Mosul al-Hadba, and the wounded is still in the minds of the Iraqis and their memories," said Hamdallah al-Rikabi, spokesman for the bloc. "The consequences of the disaster are still visible. The people are now displaced, displaced and destroyed. The suffering of the wounded and the loss of parents and loved ones between a martyr and a missing person. "

Al-Rikabi added that "just recalling this painful incident is not enough to address its problem and get rid of its effects, but we must bring back its file to the forefront, especially if there is a report from the Committee on Security and Defense parliamentary had reached important results after studying and investigating in depth the causes of the fall of Mosul was Brought him to the prosecution at the time. "

He explained that "the realization of the right and bring the perpetrators of the disaster of Mosul to justice to provide justice to the people of Mosul Al-Hadba, in addition to the return of displaced persons and compensation of the victims and reconstruction of their affected areas and erase the effects of destruction and devastation left by the war."

He called on all political forces to "deal with this file in a spirit of responsibility so as not to repeat this tragedy with another city."

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Five years later .. Nujaifi reveals the "real cause" of the fall of Mosul

 

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 2019/06/10 06:55:13

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The former governor of Nineveh province, Athil al-Nujaifi, revealed on Monday what he described as the real reason behind the fall of the city of Mosul, but the organization calling the terrorist, on 10 June 2014. 
Al-Nujaifi told Ashqaf News, "Today the picture is clearer than before. The fall of the city of Mosul, a process designed to fall to the liberation and much was unbelievable by these words, but believe the lies or illusions issued by some. 
"Today, the picture is complete and everyone has seen the situation of Iraq after the liberation of Mosul, we find that the fall process is designed to reach this situation and the dominance of the Iranian project in this way on Iraq," stressing that "the city of Mosul did not fall by the organization, , For the Iranian project and its dominance over Iraq. "

https://www.shafaaq.com/ar/سیاسة/بعد-خمس-سنوات-النجيفي-يكشف-السبب-الحقيقي-لسقوط-الموصل/

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A former deputy offers a project that includes a timetable for returning displaced people to their areas

09/06/2019

 

(Independent) .. announced the deputy mayor of Sinjar former MP Mahma Khalil, presented a draft of the federal government and the local government of Mosul, including a timetable for the return of displaced persons to their areas, noting that their return is a guarantee of political stability, security and economic areas. 
Khalil said Sunday that "the project included several important points that would close the file of the displaced completely and forever and ensure stability in various areas of their areas." International statistics indicated that Yezidis represent 30 percent of the total displaced in each Iraq". 
"The project is an integrated national project to ensure community peace and security stability after the displaced have suffered the scourge of war, killing, destruction and exile," he said, adding that "the displaced will be honest eyes and support for the security forces, Does strikes and intelligence effort. "
"Their return is an achievement of national reconciliation and stability, while their survival as displaced and exiled is a failure to complete a victory over an oppressor," he said. 
"It is the duty of the government to compensate the displaced people for notifying them of the state's interest in them, and therefore they will be watchful eyes side by side with the security forces," he said. 
Khalil revealed that "the project was handed over to the government, which promised to respond immediately after the Eid."

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On 6/9/2019 at 12:14 PM, Butifldrm said:

The report prepared by an Iraqi parliamentary committee on the detection of the culprits of the fall of the city of Mosul, but the organization of an advocate in June 2014 ended up loading former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and 35 officials responsible for the fall of the city.

My goodness, we all knew this “in our bones” but to see this report from the parliament is really something. NOW the question: What in Hades is going to be done about it?? Until Iran and Maliki, along with his ilk, are removed from any position of power, there will never be “political security” and I personally believe we need some sibilance of this before we see the RV.  

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30 minutes ago, Bama Girl said:

My goodness, we all knew this “in our bones” but to see this report from the parliament is really something. NOW the question: What in Hades is going to be done about it?? Until Iran and Maliki, along with his ilk, are removed from any position of power, there will never be “political security” and I personally believe we need some sibilance of this before we see the RV.  

 

true that BM , but many that have amassed huge sums of money and power seldom if ever are prosecuted or held accountable for their actions my hope is one day the iqd we hold becomes internationally traded recognised and bankable  ... we wait

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oops sorry thats bama girl not BM .... anyways all the best dv'ers 

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Iraqi Shi'ite groups deepen control in strategic Sunni areas

 

 

John Davison

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MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - The only sign that Sunni-majority Mosul’s newest and busiest marketplace is in Shi’ite Muslim hands is a small plaque in the office of its leaseholder from Baghdad.

FILE PHOTO: A car drives past graffiti in a street in Mosul, Iraq October 27, 2018. Picture taken October 27, 2018. REUTERS/Ari Jalal/File Photo

“The Imam Hussein Market,” it reads, dedicated to the Prophet Mohammed’s grandson and most revered Shi’ite imam.

Banners of Shi’ite leaders that militiamen erected after helping drive out the Sunni extremists of Islamic State two years ago have been removed amid fears of renewed sectarian tension.

Iraq’s second city, once a recruitment center for Sunni officers in Saddam Hussein’s army, became an al Qaeda hotbed after the 2003 U.S. invasion that toppled the dictator, and later the base from where IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a caliphate in 2014.

Iranian-backed Shi’ite paramilitary groups that played a crucial role in driving out IS have since become dominant in the city, if less visibly than before.

But Shi’ite religious authorities are now quietly seeking to formally take over state land and property they say is historically Shi’ite - something that has incensed Sunni officials.

In the Imam Hussein marketplace, an area of some 60 shops and stalls, they have established a lucrative foothold.

Shi’ite paramilitary groups deny accusations by local officials that they provide at least the implied threat of force to back up Shi’ite claims of land ownership.

But many Iraqi Sunnis view the growth of Shi’ite land control and investment in areas once held by IS as a sign of the expanding power of the militias and influence of Iran. [nL8N1XN33U] [nL5N20136K]

“Today in Iraq, the last word goes to whoever has force, and that’s what these groups have. Law means nothing,” said Mosul lawmaker Shirwan Dubardani.

The areas the Shi’ite groups and authorities are seeking to acquire lie in a strategic corridor of territory stretching from Tehran to Beirut. Greater Shi’ite control there, whether by Iranian allies or others, is important for Iran as it seeks to offset U.S. economic sanctions. [nL8N23H1VV]

It comes at a time when Iran has been expanding its influence in Syria, Yemen and Lebanon, while asserting its readiness to take on its Saudi and U.S. enemies.

There is also evidence of further Iranian-linked Shi’ite expansion in Iraq. North of Baghdad on the way to Mosul - and near a military base hosting U.S. forces - an Iranian-backed militia offered to buy an area where it built a shrine to an Iranian general killed fighting IS in 2014, the owner of the land said.

The owner refused, but cannot return with the area sealed off by policemen linked to the militia. “They’re not satisfied with controlling land - they want formal, legal control,” he said, declining to be named for fear of reprisals.

In Mosul, it is religious authorities, not militias, that are seeking property, particularly older shrines and mosques.

Iraq’s Shi’ite endowment office - a government body that administers religious sites and real estate - is using legal recourse, incentives and influence to invest in several areas of Mosul, according to local authorities, business owners, investors and documents seen by Reuters.

Such claims could be explosive.

“We sometimes worry that armed force will be used, by either side,” said Mosul Mayor Zuheir al-Araji.

Officials in the city accuse the Shi’ite endowment and armed groups of unlawful land grabs to make money and force demographic change.

Shi’ite armed groups and investors deny this, saying all property takeovers are legal and those lands rightfully Shi’ite.

The Shi’ite endowment did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Its Mosul branch declined several requests. The Iraqi prime minister’s office declined to comment on the issue.

The Sunni endowment says it owns all state religious land in Mosul including sites claimed by Shi’ites. But the battle over legal ownership of areas claimed by both sects is intractable. A complex legal process for solving disputes favors those with power, analysts say.

MONEY, CHARM AND THREATS

In the past year, the Shi’ite endowment issued notices asserting ownership of several sites in Mosul that it had long claimed, handing leases for attached commercial areas to investors.

More recent claims have stalled pending appeals by Sunni officials and the town hall. But the marketplace is already operating as a Shi’ite endowment-owned area.

“The Shi’ite endowment has rights to this land, which historically was a Shi’ite cemetery,” said Uday Muhsin, the market leaseholder.

He pays 170 million dinars yearly ($143,000) to the endowment which he says goes to a fund for wounded Shi’ite fighters and victims of Islamic State.

Last year, Muhsin began leasing the deserted site opposite the tomb of Nabi Yunis (the Prophet Jonah), which was destroyed by IS. He rents it out to local traders, and showed papers from city authorities letting him do so.

Market vendors said the rent of roughly $200 per month is about half what they would pay in areas administered by the Sunni endowment.

It is one way of winning local support and securing control, Sunni officials say. They say the takeover was illegal and dispute the area’s Shi’ite heritage - the basis for the endowment’s claim to it.

“People accept it because it’s done in an attractive way. They’re poor and need the money,” Mosul’s Sunni endowment director Abu Bakr Kanaan said.

But behind paperwork and lower rent there is the implied threat of force, said Kanaan and shopowners in another area the Shi’ite endowment claimed last month.

“A Shi’ite investor came to 20 stores on this road, saying we must sign new rental agreements with him,” said Abu Mohammed, who owns a shop that abuts state religious property in the Old City managed by the Sunni endowment.

The investor produced a document from the Shi’ite endowment, a copy of which was seen by Reuters, declaring ownership of the area and leasing him the properties for around $40,000 per year.

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“He was charming at first, and was offering better rent. But when we hesitated he threatened to throw us out. He clearly had connections and force behind him,” said Abu Mohammed. He declined to give his full name for fear of reprisals.

Harith Hasan, an Iraq expert at the Carnegie Middle East Centre, said the Shi’ite endowment “often reinforces its guardianship not only through the legal process but also by allying with groups that are present on the ground.”

Paramilitaries in Mosul denied involvement but said they had once intervened to “calm things down” between the two sides.

“The Sunni endowment chief doesn’t accept the idea that the Shi’ite endowment can take land in Mosul,” said Hayder Abu Hadma, a deputy commander in the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), the official grouping of Iraq’s Shi’ite paramilitaries.

“But he knows very well there are many Shi’ites here and 20 to 30 Shi’ite shrines,” he said.

SECTARIAN SYSTEM

Under Saddam a single endowment ministry ran all state religious lands, which Shi’ites persecuted by the dictator complained left them unable to oversee their heritage.

The ministry disbanded after 2003, replaced by separate Shi’ite and Sunni endowment offices. When a mosque or shrine is claimed by both, a committee with representatives from both sides must decide. It often cannot, leaving decisions pending and benefiting whoever has sway in courts or on the ground.

In recent years the Shi’ite endowment “has been in a better position to advance its claims, given the support it has enjoyed from Shi’ite Islamist parties that dominated the government and parliament,” Hasan said.

Around Mosul, once a melting pot for ethnic and religious groups along the ancient Silk Road, IS destroyed Shi’ite shrines. Now many PMF groups see defense of shrines as their primary task.

“They think they have the right to our religious sites because IS blew up Shi’ite property. It’s all about money, from investment and rent to attracting pilgrims who would eventually visit,” Kanaan said.

Sunni authorities acknowledge the Shi’ite heritage around Mosul. But they say most heritage inside the city is Sunni.

Mayor Araji hopes the Shi’ite endowment will stop claiming property, which would encourage stability.

After the chaos that followed the end of IS, things were now more under control, he said. “But we need Baghdad’s support. We can’t bring law and order on our own.”

Reporting by John Davison; Additional reporting by Jamal Badrani, Ahmed Rasheed in Baghdad, Ghazwan Hassan in Tikrit; Editing by Giles Elgood

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