Supreme Judicial Council calls for lifting the immunity of deputies accused of corruption

[nannab]

Oh I wonder what families they could be referring too.  Hmmmm 

Good evening Butifldrm and DV  

[gregp]

Mahdi is cleaning house!

 Thanks. 

[Butifldrm]

collecting signatures to take action against the "culprits" of the fall of Mosul

 

 Twilight News    

 

 3 hours ago

 

 

"The delay of resolution of the file over the past years was due to the involvement of prominent figures in the crime," said the parliamentary sources in the Iraqi parliamentary sources revealed the existence of mobility within the House of Representatives to reopen the file of the fall of Mosul, but the organization calling the terrorist in mid-2014, Politicians warned of "the existence of suspicious movement of elements calling near Mosul could cause a repeat of the scenario of 2014."

A parliamentary source informed that "a number of deputies have been in several days since the movement of the collection of signatures calling for the Presidency of the parliament to reopen the file of the fall of Mosul, but the organization is urging," explaining to the new Arab that "the deputies will call for the formation of a parliamentary committee in this regard, Specific ".

He pointed out that "the deputies will hold the responsibility for the political and military leaders were governing Iraq in 2014, led by the then prime minister, the commander of the armed forces Nuri al-Maliki," pointing out that "parliamentarians waiting for the House of Representatives to form parliamentary committees in order to continue their movement, Mosul is more important than a parliamentary committee, especially the Security and Defense Commission. "

"The movement will also include claims to prevent the travel of all those whose names appear in the file of the fall of Mosul, to block the possibility of escape," adding that "punishment according to the law will not exclude anyone this time, whatever the status.

"The House of Representatives will open a comprehensive investigation into the file of the fall of Mosul, in order to account for the defaulters in accordance with the law," said a member of parliament, the alliance "Sason", Starr al-Otabi, "The delay of resolving the file over the past years was due to the involvement of prominent figures In crime ".

He pointed out that "the file of the fall of Mosul will return to the front, and will be submitted to the defaulters to the judiciary," explaining in a statement that "some prominent figures that caused the delay of the fall of Mosul and the neglect of its file for years," in reference to Maliki, and a number of political and security leaders associated with it.

He pointed out that "the alliance of Sowron will put the file of the fall of Mosul, and the file of corruption, the top priorities of his work within parliament, and will work to refer those involved to the judiciary without exception, to receive their fair compensation," adding that "the city of Mosul suffered a security setback because of corruption, The joints of the state at the time, as well as rely on sterile security plans, which caused the occupation of one-third of the territory of Iraq by gangs calling for the terrorist. "

On the other hand, the leader of the coalition of Maliki (a coalition of state law) Saad Almtalibi that "raising the file fall Mosul at this time represents an attempt to target al-Maliki in conjunction with talk about the possibility of granting him the post of Vice President," adding that "what is being talked about positions, More than his relationship with the reality of the fall of Mosul. "

"With regard to the fall of Mosul was the formation of a parliamentary committee wrote a report on the fall of the city, and referred some of those involved to the judiciary," explaining that "some officers sentenced to death in absentia."

"Some of the political forces have been and still control the fate of Mosul," said a member of Nineveh Provincial Council Deldar Zebari. "There are several reasons behind the fall of Mosul in 2014, including political differences and corruption in the state apparatus."

He pointed out that "these forces are ready to do anything to achieve their interests," accusing the political class of "the practice of lying, which caused the deterioration of the country at various levels."

"The political influences and the practices of some elements of the Iraqi forces have had negative effects, causing some areas to fall in the hands of a pre-emptive organization," said military commanders who had previously fought against a militant organization in Mosul.

"The army's practices against the citizens in 2013 and earlier, which caused the fall of Mosul and other Iraqi cities, but the organization," said the commander of operations in eastern Anbar, Major General Saad Harith, who had previously taken military missions in Mosul, Anbar that "the experience of Mosul should not be repeated."

He called on political leaders to "take care of the security aspects, away from the monotheistic monologues of rhetoric that caused the deceit of the people," adding that "the wrong political discourse caused the strengthening of tribal affiliations and sectarianism, at the expense of loyalty to the homeland."

This comes at a time when politicians warn of the possibility of repeating the scenario of the fall of Mosul, if the security conditions are not controlled on the Iraqi-Syrian border.

 

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http://www.shafaaq.com/ar/Ar_NewsReader/cea99678-854f-472c-bd9a-173ac21d6f16

[Butifldrm]

 

2018/11/04 15:15

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Deputy: The files will be opened the secretariat of Baghdad because of suspicions of corruption projects

 

 

BAGHDAD / Al-Masala: MP Alaa al-Rubaie, on Sunday, November 4, 2018, on parliamentary movements to open files of corruption in the Secretariat of Baghdad, pointing out that it is managed by more than 20 acting director-general.

Al-Rubaie said in a press statement that "the secretariat of Baghdad abused the capital Baghdad and brought it to a reality that is very disturbing can not be tolerated, from the decline of services and the spread of waste and water in the middle areas and popular residential neighborhoods and the breakdown and erosion of the streets."

He added that "there are suspicions of corruption in many of the contracts of the secretariat of Baghdad and the lags in most of its projects," noting that "will be opened all the files of the contracts of the secretariat of Baghdad, the current and old and the impartiality, which has not been acted upon and closed abruptly."

Al-Rubaie attributed the cases of "laxity and corruption in the secretariat of Baghdad to its management by the Secretary and agents and more than 20 acting director-general without any executive position where the originality," calling on Abdul Mahdi to "terminate the proxy positions in the secretariat of Baghdad."

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[Butifldrm]

 

2018/11/04 09:46

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Member of the Council: We seek to form a parliamentary committee to investigate files of corruption

 

 

BAGHDAD / Al-Masala: The MP for the alliance of Badr al-Zayadi, on Sunday, November 4, 2018, the coalition sought to form a parliamentary committee to take on the responsibility of tracking corruption files over all successive governments, noting that the absence of the role of the former oversight allowed some officials to burn and destroy contracts .

Zayadi said in a statement followed by the obelisk, that "the alliance of others seek to collect parliamentary signatures from all political blocs to demand the presidency of parliament to form a higher committee take it upon itself to open all files of corruption from 2003 until 2018.

He added that "the follow-up files include all departments and institutions of the state, including provincial councils," noting that billions of dollars is still unknown source did not know its fate either fled outside the country or was stolen through fictitious contracts.

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http://almasalah.com/ar/news/154943/عضو-في-سائرون-نسعى-لتشكيل-لجنة-برلمانية-للتحقيق-بملفات-الفساد

 

[ChuckFinley]

Man, I hope he gets all these big fish that have gotten away so far. 

["Fred"]

1 hour ago, ChuckFinley said:

Man, I hope he gets all these big fish that have gotten away so far. 

Time to bring the gauntlet down on these clowns Chuck 😀

[Butifldrm]

after an agreement with Saleh movement to remove Maliki from the post of Vice President of Iraq and the latter "vows and threatens"

 

 Twilight News    

 

 3 hours ago

 

 

The re-opening of the file of the fall of the city of Mosul, however, the organization is calling for the removal of the head of a coalition of law from the post of Vice President.

The newspaper quoted sources in the issue issued today, that parliamentary action launched in this regard after the disclosure of understandings between President Barham Saleh, with Maliki for his post as vice president.

The sources added that the new parliamentary move coincides with a project to be discussed by the parliament, reducing the number of vice presidents from three to one.

The sources pointed out that a group of deputies fought about 10 days ago to collect documents that condemn Maliki and the political, administrative and financial excesses that he carried out during his tenure as prime minister, stressing that the most important file that will be reopened is the fall of Mosul.

The sources said that the former parliament took full responsibility for the fall of Mosul, but none of the sanctions and accountability were not made without knowing the reasons.

In the meantime, the transfer of an Iraqi parliamentary source for al-Maliki, promising to those who seek to return such files, stressing his adherence to the post of Vice President, armed with the decision of the Federal Court, which returned to the site last year, despite the parliament's decision to hold the responsibility in the fall of Mosul.

Maliki threatened, according to sources, to open files "large" capable of revealing all the facts about the excesses of some political forces in parliament, which will lose its popularity in front of public opinion.

 

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http://www.shafaaq.com/ar/Ar_NewsReader/73ad159e-c172-4fc2-9734-4d3df9e6c02b

[Butifldrm]

Collect signatures to take action against the "culprits" of the fall of Mosul

 

 

Iraqi parliamentary sources revealed the existence of mobility within the House of Representatives to reopen the file of the fall of Mosul, but the organization is urging in mid-2014, while the deputies confirmed that "delay the resolution of the file over the past years was because of the involvement of prominent figures in the crime," warned politicians from " The presence of suspicious movement of elements near the proximity of the connector may cause a repeat of the scenario 2014.

A parliamentary source informed that "a number of deputies have been in several days since the movement of the collection of signatures calling for the Presidency of the parliament to reopen the file of the fall of Mosul, but the organization is urging," explaining to the new Arab that "the deputies will call for the formation of a parliamentary committee in this regard, Specific ".

He pointed out that "the deputies will hold the responsibility for the political and military leaders were governing Iraq in 2014, led by the then prime minister, the commander of the armed forces Nuri al-Maliki," pointing out that "parliamentarians waiting for the House of Representatives to form parliamentary committees in order to continue their movement, Mosul is more important than a parliamentary committee, especially the Security and Defense Commission. "

"The movement will also include claims to prevent the travel of all those whose names appear in the file of the fall of Mosul, to block the possibility of escape," adding that "punishment according to the law will not exclude anyone this time, whatever the status.

"The House of Representatives will open a comprehensive investigation into the file of the fall of Mosul, in order to account for the defaulters in accordance with the law," said a member of parliament, the alliance "Sason", Starr al-Otabi, "The delay of resolving the file over the past years was due to the involvement of prominent figures In crime ".

He pointed out that "the file of the fall of Mosul will return to the front, and will be submitted to the defaulters to the judiciary," explaining in a statement that "some prominent figures that caused the delay of the fall of Mosul and the neglect of its file for years," in reference to Maliki, and a number of political and security leaders associated with it.

He pointed out that "the alliance of Sowron will put the file of the fall of Mosul, and the file of corruption, the top priorities of his work within parliament, and will work to refer those involved to the judiciary without exception, to receive their fair compensation," adding that "the city of Mosul suffered a security setback because of corruption, The joints of the state at the time, as well as relying on sterile security plans. Which caused the occupation of one-third of the territory of Iraq by the gangs of the organization calling.

On the other hand, the leader of the coalition of Maliki (a coalition of state law) Saad Almtalibi that "raising the file fall Mosul at this time represents an attempt to target al-Maliki in conjunction with talk about the possibility of granting him the post of Vice President," adding that "what is being talked about positions, More than his relationship with the reality of the fall of Mosul. "

"With regard to the fall of Mosul was the formation of a parliamentary committee wrote a report on the fall of the city, and referred some of those involved to the judiciary," explaining that "some officers sentenced to death in absentia."

"Some of the political forces have been and still control the fate of Mosul," said a member of Nineveh Provincial Council Deldar Zebari. "There are several reasons behind the fall of Mosul in 2014, including political differences and corruption in the state apparatus."

He pointed out that "these forces are ready to do anything to achieve their interests," accusing the political class of "the practice of lying, which caused the deterioration of the country at various levels."

"The political influences and the practices of some elements of the Iraqi forces have had negative effects, causing some areas to fall in the hands of a pre-emptive organization," said military commanders who had previously fought against a militant organization in Mosul.

"The army's practices against the citizens in 2013 and earlier, which caused the fall of Mosul and other Iraqi cities, but the organization," said the commander of operations in eastern Anbar, Major General Saad Harith, who had previously taken military missions in Mosul, Anbar that "the experience of Mosul should not be repeated."

He called on political leaders to "take care of the security aspects, away from the monotheistic monologues of rhetoric that caused the deceit of the people," adding that "the wrong political discourse caused the strengthening of tribal and sectarian affiliations, at the expense of loyalty to the homeland."

This comes at a time when politicians warn of the possibility of repeating the scenario of the fall of Mosul, if the security conditions are not controlled on the Iraqi-Syrian border.

https://www.sotaliraq.com/2018/11/05/جمع-تواقيع-لاتخاذ-اجراءات-ضد-المتسببي/

[nannab]

What a little weasel Malarki is. It is time to open that can of

worms just to see who besides Iraqi's let it all go so badly.. 

Good morning DV.  

[Theseus]

DId Maliki find a box of FBI files in his bedroom closet? Ooops!

[ChuckFinley]

On 11/4/2018 at 2:52 PM, "Fred" said:

Time to bring the gauntlet down on these clowns Chuck 😀

Liking your style there Fred.  

[3n1]

13 hours ago, Butifldrm said:

On the other hand, the leader of the coalition of Maliki (a coalition of state law) Saad Almtalibi that "raising the file fall Mosul at this time represents an attempt to target al-Maliki in conjunction with talk about the possibility of granting him the post of Vice President,"

 

the citizens of iraq best not be hanging any hopes of a future on the political goons if this is the thinking running thru the country , Maliki was in charge of the military told his army to run when the isis toyota trucks rolled into mosul the people were brutalized ... not sure what that joker Saad Almtalibi thinks , been raising that against that traitor since the day it happened like any rational sane person should of and this nut thinks he should be vice president again probably time for the citizens to rise up once again   .. cheers dv

[yota691]

The integrity commission returns to the state a property of seven billion dinars and adjusts its false priorities

 

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money and business Economy News Baghdad The investigations department of the Integrity Commission revealed on Tuesday that the staff of Karbala Investigation Office in the Authority were able to control fraud and counterfeiting in the transfer of ownership of a property of 18 dunums and 1417 meters to the state real estate department in the governorate. In a statement read by Al-Iktissad News, the department said that the Karbala Investigation Team team conducted extensive investigations and investigations including the Property Claims Commission, the Agriculture Directorate, the State Real Estate Department and the Real Estate Registry in Karbala. The defendants who claimed to buy the property by means of a fake bid with a false letter allegedly issued by the State Property Department in the province. " She pointed out that "the estimated value of the property amounted to (6,905,500,000) billion dinars, and that the seizure was based on a judicial note." She added that "Karbala investigation office in the Integrity Commission handed over the property to the State Property Department in the province; in implementation of the decision of the judge of the Karbala investigation court competent to consider the issues of integrity," indicating that "the judicial decision to ensure that the Chamber to initiate an action to invalidate the restriction against the beneficiaries and claim the reward" . It is worth mentioning that the estimated value of the properties that the Authority was able to re-state ownership in the province of Karbala during the current year amounted to more than (230) billion dinars. Number of views 8   Date added 06/11/2018

[Butifldrm]

POSTED ON 2018-11-06 BY SOTALIRAQ

 

 

After an agreement with Saleh movement to remove Maliki from the post of Vice President of Iraq and the latter "vows and threatens"

 

 

Saudi Arabia's Okaz newspaper reported on Monday that the reopening of the fall of the city of Mosul, but the organization is calling for the removal of the head of a coalition of law from the post of Vice President.

The newspaper quoted sources in the issue issued today, that parliamentary action launched in this regard after the disclosure of understandings between President Barham Saleh, with Maliki for his post as vice president.

The sources added that the new parliamentary move coincides with a project to be discussed by the parliament, reducing the number of vice presidents from three to one.

The sources pointed out that a group of deputies fought about 10 days ago to collect documents that condemn Maliki and the political, administrative and financial excesses that he carried out during his tenure as prime minister, stressing that the most important file that will be reopened is the fall of Mosul.

The sources said that the former parliament took full responsibility for the fall of Mosul, but none of the sanctions and accountability were not made without knowing the reasons.

In the meantime, the transfer of an Iraqi parliamentary source for al-Maliki, promising to those who seek to return such files, stressing his adherence to the post of Vice President, armed with the decision of the Federal Court, which returned to the site last year, despite the parliament's decision to hold the responsibility in the fall of Mosul.

Maliki threatened, according to sources, to open files "large" capable of revealing all the facts about the excesses of some political forces in parliament, which will lose its popularity in front of public opinion.

https://www.sotaliraq.com/2018/11/06/بعد-اتفاق-مع-صالح-حراك-لإبعاد-المالكي-ع/

[nannab]

8 minutes ago, Butifldrm said:

Maliki threatened, according to sources, to open files "large" capable of revealing all the facts about the excesses of some political forces in parliament, which will lose its popularity in front of public opinion.

https://www.sotaliraq.com/2018/11/06/بعد-اتفاق-مع-صالح-حراك-لإبعاد-المالكي-ع/

 

 Let'er rip little man Malarki  you are finally going down.  

[CSM (R) Thack]

1 hour ago, nannab said:

 

 Let'er rip little man Malarki  you are finally going down.  

Justice!!!👍👍👍🇺🇸

[Theseus]

Malarki tried to blame the General for the fall of Mosul and the Kurd...

 

Special Report: How Mosul fell - An Iraqi general disputes Baghdad's story

 

Ned Parker, Isabel Coles, Raheem Salman

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Lieutenant General Mahdi Gharawi knew an attack was coming.

 

 

Civilian children stand next to a burnt vehicle during clashes between Iraqi security forces and al Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the northern Iraq city of Mosul, in this June 10, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Stringer/Files

In late May, Iraqi security forces arrested seven members of militant group Islamic State in Mosul and learned the group planned an offensive on the city in early June. Gharawi, the operational commander of Nineveh province, of which Mosul is the capital, asked Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s most trusted commanders for reinforcements.

With Iraq’s military overstretched, the senior officers scoffed at the request. Diplomats in Baghdad also passed along intelligence of an attack, only to be told that Iraqi Special Forces were in Mosul and could handle any scenario.

On June 4, federal police in Mosul under Gharawi’s command cornered Islamic State’s military leader in Iraq, who blew himself up rather than surrendering. Gharawi hoped the death might avert an attack. He was wrong.

At 2:30 a.m. on June 6, Gharawi and his men returned to their operations room after an inspection of checkpoints in the city of two million. At that moment, convoys of pickup trucks were advancing from the west, driving across the desert that straddles Iraq’s border with Syria. Each vehicle held up to four IS fighters. The convoys shot their way through the two-man checkpoints into the city.

By 3:30 a.m., the militants were fighting inside Mosul. Within three days the Iraqi army would abandon the country’s second-biggest city to its attackers. The loss triggered a series of events that continues to reshape Iraq months later.

It unleashed a two-day charge by IS to within 95 miles (153 km) of Baghdad that caused the collapse of four Iraqi divisions and the capture or deaths of thousands of soldiers. It helped drive Maliki from office. And it pushed Western powers and Gulf Arab nations into launching air strikes on the Islamist militants in both Iraq and Syria.

But how Mosul was lost, and who gave the order to abandon the fight, have, until now, been unclear. There has been no official version: only soldiers’ stories of mass desertions and claims by infantry troops that they followed orders to flee.

In June, Maliki accused unnamed regional countries, commanders and rival politicians of plotting the fall of Mosul, but has since remained quiet.

Nevertheless, Baghdad has pinned the blame on Gharawi. In late August, he was charged by the defense ministry with dereliction of duty. He is now awaiting the findings of an investigative panel and then a military trial. If found guilty, he could be sentenced to death. (Four federal police officers who served under Gharawi are also in custody awaiting trial, and could not be reached.) Parliament also plans to hold hearings into the loss of Mosul.

An investigation by Reuters shows that higher-level military officials and Maliki himself share at least some of the blame. Several of Iraq’s senior-most commanders and officials have detailed for the first time how troop shortages and infighting among top officers and Iraqi political leaders played into Islamic State’s hands and fueled panic that led to the city’s abandonment. Maliki and his defense minister made an early critical mistake, they say, by turning down repeated offers of help from the Kurdish fighting force known as the peshmerga.

Gharawi’s role in the debacle is a matter of debate. A member of the country’s dominant Shi’ite sect, he alienated Mosul’s Sunni majority before the battle, according to the provincial governor and many citizens. That helped give rise to IS sleeper cells inside Mosul. One Iraqi officer under his command faulted Gharawi for not rallying the troops for a final stand.

For his part, Gharawi says he stood firm, and did not give the final order to abandon the city. Others involved in the battle endorse that claim and say Gharawi fought until the city was overrun. It was only then that he fled.

Gharawi says three people could have given the final order: Aboud Qanbar, at the time the defense ministry’s deputy chief of staff; Ali Ghaidan, then commander of the ground forces; or Maliki himself, who personally directed his most senior officers from Baghdad. The secret of who decided to abandon Mosul, Gharawi says, lies with these three men. Gharawi says a decision by Ghaidan and Qanbar to leave Mosul’s western bank sparked mass desertions as soldiers assumed their commanders had fled. A senior Iraqi military official backs that assertion.

None of the three men have commented publicly on their decisions in Mosul. Maliki has declined Reuters requests for an interview for this article. Qanbar has not responded, while Ghaidan could not be reached.

Lieutenant General Qassim Atta, a military spokesman with close ties to Maliki, told Reuters last week that Gharawi “above all others ... failed in his role as commander.” The rest, he said, “will be revealed before the judiciary.” 

SPONSORED

In many ways, Gharawi’s story is a window into Iraq. The Shi’ite general has been a key figure since 2003, when the Shi’ites began gaining power after the United States toppled Saddam Hussein and his Sunni-dominated Baath Party. Shi’ite leaders once saluted Gharawi as a hero, while Sunnis see him as a murderer who used Iraq’s war on extremism as a cover for extorting money from businesses and menacing innocent people with arrests and killings.

Gharawi rose through a military riven by sectarian splits, corruption and politics. He is now trapped by those same forces. The decision to punish him and ignore the role of higher-level figures shows not just that rebuilding the military will be difficult, but also why the country risks breakup. As Mosul proved, the Iraqi army is a failed institution at the heart of a failing state.

Gharawi, in his own telling, has become a scapegoat, a victim of the deal-making and alliances that keep Iraq’s political and military elite in place. Ghaidan and Qanbar, longtime confidantes of Maliki, have been dispatched to a pensioned retirement. Gharawi, who is living in his home town in the south of Iraq, says his bosses are pinning the faults of a broken system on him.

“They want just to save themselves from these accusations,” he told Reuters during a visit to Baghdad two weeks ago. “The investigation should include the highest commanders and leadership ... Everyone should say what they have, so the people know.”

ROAD TO MOSUL

Gharawi expected Mosul to be hell. In the years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the city had become an epicenter for the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency. Former Baathists and military commanders lived in the province of Nineveh. The Kurds also had a foothold in the city; after Saddam’s fall they came to dominate the security forces and local government.

In 2008, two years after he became prime minister, Maliki began to assert his power there. Seeing the Kurds as potentially disloyal, he began to purge Kurdish officers from Mosul’s two army divisions and insert his own men to protect Baghdad’s interests. He appointed a string of commanders who antagonised local Kurds and Sunnis. In 2011, he tapped Gharawi.

The general was already a survivor of Iraq’s political system. Despite the fact he was a Shi’ite, he had been a member of Saddam’s Republican Guard. In 2004, after Saddam’s fall, Washington had backed Gharawi to lead one of Iraq’s new National Police Divisions.

It was a brutal period. The Shi’ite-dominated security forces – including the police – were connected to a spate of extrajudicial killings. The Americans accused Gharawi of running his police brigades as a front for Shi’ite militias blamed for the murder of hundreds of people, mostly Sunnis. U.S. and Iraqi officials investigated Gharawi for his command of Site Four, a notorious Baghdad jail where prisoners were allegedly tortured or sold to one of the biggest and most brutal Shi’ite militias.

In late 2006, U.S. officials moved to stop the killings, pressuring Maliki to dismiss Gharawi and try him for torture. Maliki reassigned Gharawi but would not try him. U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker recalled a near shouting match with Maliki over the general. “One of my many disappointments was not getting that sorry-assed failure,” Crocker said in 2010.

Gharawi says he did nothing wrong during that period and has nothing to apologize for. It was civil war, he said. The Sunni insurgency was bent on demolishing the Shi’ite-led government. Gharawi’s brother was killed by Sunni militants. “We worked under special circumstances. We prevented civil war. We actually stopped it. Where are our mistakes?”

LEOPARD SKIN AND A WARNING

After his demotion, Gharawi bided his time, a gloomy figure in his dim-lit Green Zone villa, decorated with old photos, including a few of him with U.S. senators and Donald Rumsfeld. He was given a series of minor jobs. Maliki’s office regularly proposed him for higher positions only to be blocked by U.S. officials. As the U.S. military prepared to leave Iraq, Maliki appointed Gharawi the top federal police commander in Mosul.

There, Gharawi recaptured his glory. State television showed him standing on Nineveh’s sweeping plains in blue camouflage as he announced a successful operation against a terror plot. Maliki rewarded him with property in an affluent Baghdad neighborhood.

In his house in the capital on a short leave from Mosul last December, Gharawi sat proudly on a leafy green couch, surrounded by cream-coloured walls, a faux leopard skin rug, and shiny tiled floors. An oil portrait of himself hung on the wall. He bragged about arrests and flipped through pictures of jihadists his men had captured.

Despite his triumphs, he was frank about the insurgency that re-emerged last year as Sunnis grew frustrated with Maliki’s sectarian rule. The war was at best a stalemate, Gharawi said. Al Qaeda – the Islamic State’s parent organization at the time, before it split this year – was gaining ground. “I have to confess, al Qaeda is stronger than they have ever been. Qaeda needs Mosul. They think of Mosul as their emirate,” he said.

Gharawi said he lacked the troops to secure the province. He also faced growing opposition from Sunnis in Mosul, who accused him and his men of extra-judicial killings, allegations Gharawi rejected.

In March, Maliki appointed him Nineveh’s operational commander. Security in Iraq was deteriorating. In Anbar province, to Nineveh’s southwest, violence had drawn in three military divisions against IS militants and angry Sunni tribes. The government had lost control of the highways from Baghdad to the north. IS militants regularly set up fake checkpoints and ambushed vehicles.

THE FALL

As IS fighters raced towards Mosul before dawn on June 6, the jihadists hoped only to take a neighborhood for several hours, one of them later told a friend in Baghdad. They did not expect state control to crumble. They hurtled into five districts in their hundreds, and would, over the next few days, reach over 2,000 fighters, welcomed by the city’s angry Sunni residents.

The first line of Mosul’s defense was the sixth brigade of the Third Iraqi army division. On paper, the brigade had 2,500 men. The reality was closer to 500. The brigade was also short of weapons and ammunition, according to one non-commissioned officer. Infantry, armor and tanks had been shifted to Anbar, where more than 6,000 soldiers had been killed and another 12,000 had deserted. It left Mosul with virtually no tanks and a shortage of artillery, according to Gharawi.

There was also a problem with ghost soldiers – men on the books who paid their officers half their salaries and in return did not show up for duty. Investigators from the defense ministry had sent a report on the phenomenon to superiors in 2013. Nothing was heard back, a sergeant who was based in Mosul told Reuters.

In all, there were supposed to be close to 25,000 soldiers and police in the city; the reality, several local officials and security officers say, was at best 10,000. In the district of Musherfa, one of the city’s main entry points, there were just 40 soldiers on duty the night of June 6.

As the militants infiltrated the city, they seized military vehicles and weapons. The sergeant based there said they also hanged soldiers and lit them ablaze, crucified them, and torched them on the hoods of Humvees.

On the western edge of Tamoz 17 neighborhood, police from the fourth battalion saw two Humvees and 15 pickup trucks approach, spraying machine gun fire.

“In my entire battalion we have one machine gun. In each pickup they had one,” said head of the battalion, Colonel Dhiyab Ahmed al-Assi al-Obeidi.

Gharawi ordered his forces to form a defensive line to cordon off the besieged western Mosul neighbourhoods from the Tigris River. Gharawi said he received a call from Maliki to hold things until the arrival of Qanbar, the deputy chief of staff at the defense ministry, and Ghaidan, who commanded Iraqi ground forces.

Qanbar is a member of Maliki’s tribe, while Ghaidan had long assisted Maliki in security operations, according to senior officers and Iraqi officials. The two men outranked Gharawi and automatically took formal charge of the Mosul command on June 7.

On the morning of June 8, Gharawi met Nineveh governor Atheel Nujaifi. The governor was no friend – he had previously accused Gharawi of corruption, an allegation the general rejected.

Now the city’s fate hinged on Gharawi. One of Nujaifi’s advisers asked the general why he had not counter-attacked.

“There are not enough forces,” Gharawi told them.

General Babakir Zebari was Gharawi’s superior and chief of staff for Iraq’s armed forces back in Baghdad. He agrees there were not enough men to defeat the jihadists. And Maliki had already rejected a chance to change that.

On June 7, Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani had offered to send Kurdish peshmerga fighters to help. The offer went all the way up to Maliki, who rejected it twice through his defense minister, according to Zebari.

 

 

United Nations and U.S. diplomats also attempted to broker an arrangement acceptable to Maliki, who remained suspicious of the Kurds’ intent. Maliki insisted there were more than enough Iraqi forces. Barzani’s office confirmed Kurdish offers of help were rejected.

On the afternoon of June 8, the Islamic State surged. More than 100 vehicles, carrying at least 400 men, had crossed to Mosul from Syria since the start of the battle. Sleeper cells hiding in the city had been activated and neighbourhoods rallied to them, according to police and military.

The insurgents bombed a police station in the al-Uraybi neighborhood and charged into the area around the Mosul Hotel, an abandoned building on the western bank of the Tigris transformed into a battle post for 30 men from SWAT, an emergency police unit.

Gharawi and his federal police pounded Islamic State-controlled areas with artillery.

For a moment, “the morale of Mosul got higher,” Gharawi said.

Within hours, though, Gharawi’s command was thrown into disarray. Multiple military sources say Ghaidan and Qanbar sacked a divisional commander after he refused to send men to defend the Mosul Hotel. The sacked general, who reported to Gharawi, theoretically commanded 6,000 men, though many were AWOL.

General Zebari calls the order another huge mistake: “In crisis, you can’t replace the commander.”

TURNING POINT

By June 9, the fourth battalion’s Colonel Obeidi and 40 of his men were among the very last local police fighting to hold back the jihadists in western Mosul. The rest had either joined the jihadists or run away.

Just before 4:30 p.m., a military water tanker raced towards the Mosul Hotel where Obeidi and his men were stationed. The police fired at the tanker, which detonated, setting off a massive fireball and hurtling shrapnel. “I didn’t feel anything,” said Obeidi, whose leg was ripped open by the blast. “The sound shook the whole of Mosul but I didn’t hear a thing.”

Clutching his handgun, Obeidi vowed to fight on. Police carried him to a boat to cross the Tigris to safety. Military officers, local officials, and even U.S. officials later testifying to Congress said the hotel attack was what broke the army and police in Mosul. After that, the defensive line in the west of the city melted away.

Barely three hours later, as reports spread of federal police burning their camps and discarding their uniforms, the Nineveh governor and his adviser met with Qanbar and Ghaidan in the Operation Command near the airport.

The adviser, Khaled al-Obeidi, was himself a retired general and a newly elected lawmaker. (He is unrelated to police Colonel Obeidi). He urged the commanders to go on the offensive with the Second Division, which sat relatively untouched across the river in eastern Mosul.

Qanbar said that they had a plan. Nujaifi’s adviser then urged Gharawi to attack. Gharawi said he could not risk moving the soldiers and federal police he had left.

“We can get you the force,” the adviser said.

Qanbar interrupted. The governor and adviser should do their work, he said. “We will do ours.”

The governor and his adviser left the base at 8:25 p.m., unsure of what the military’s plan was.

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Shortly before 9:30 p.m., Qanbar and Ghaidan told Gharawi they were withdrawing across the river.

“They said goodbye and that’s it. They didn’t give me any information or any reason,” Gharawi said.

They stripped Gharawi of 46 men and 14 pickup trucks and Humvees – the bulk of his security detail – say Gharawi and other officers. The two senior generals moved the city’s command to a base on the city’s eastern edge, according to multiple accounts.

Ghaidan and Qanbar’s retreating convoy created the impression that Iraq’s security forces were deserting, Gharawi said. “This is the straw that broke the camel’s back. This was the biggest mistake.”

Soldiers assumed their leaders had fled and within a couple of hours most of the Second Division had deserted the city’s east, Nujaifi, the governor, told Reuters.

Gharawi and 26 of his men stayed hidden in their operations base in the west, which swarmed with insurgents. That night, Gharawi said, Ghaidan phoned him and assured him the army was holding eastern Mosul.

Ghaidan and Qanbar both left Mosul overnight, arriving in Kurdistan on June 10, according to Zebari, the chief of staff back in Baghdad.

“Of course once the commander leaves the soldier behind, why would you want to fight?” asked Zebari. “The senior commander is the brains of operation. Once he runs, the whole body is paralysed.”

Zebari says he doesn’t know who gave the order to leave. Qanbar and Ghaidan were bypassing the defense ministry and reporting directly to Maliki, Zebari told Reuters.

Early the next morning, Zebari rang Gharawi and urged him to leave the operation command center. “You are going to get killed. Please withdraw,” both men remember Zebari saying.

Gharawi refused and insisted he needed approval from Maliki’s military office to leave.

Soon after, Gharawi decided to fight his way across a bridge to eastern Mosul. He rang Ghaidan to tell him. “I am going to be killed. I am surrounded by all directions. Send the prime minister my greetings. Tell the prime minister I have done everything possible that I can do.”

He and his men crammed into five vehicles and headed across the river. On the east bank, their five vehicles were set ablaze. They dodged bullets and stones. Three of the men were shot dead. It was every man for himself, Gharawi said.

In the east, Gharawi and three of his men commandeered an armoured vehicle with flat tires and headed north to safety.

AFTERMATH

By August, Gharawi was back in his ancestral home in southern Iraq, looking after his children, unsure what to do next. One day he received a call from a friend in the defense ministry: He was under investigation for dereliction of duty in Mosul.

At the same time, Maliki promoted Qanbar and moved to protect Ghaidan. After the prime minister resigned on Aug. 15, though, the two men were also forced into retirement.

 

 

It marked an effort by Haider al-Abadi, the new prime minister, to start to clean and rebuild the Iraqi forces. Abadi has closed the office Maliki used to direct commanders and has quietly retired officers seen as loyal to his predecessor. Purging the security institutions of their sectarianism, money-making schemes and political manoeuvrings will take years.

And for now, Gharawi must take the blame for Mosul. Zebari believes that’s unfair. “Gharawi was an officer doing a job, but his luck ran out just like many other officers,” he said. “All of us have to shoulder some of the responsibility. Every one of us.”

Two weeks ago in Baghdad, face unshaven, voice hoarse, Gharawi indicated a begrudging acceptance of his fate, whatever it might be.

“Maybe I’ll be pardoned, maybe I’ll be imprisoned, maybe I’ll be hanged,” he said.

Edited November 7, 2018 by Theseus

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Financial Control is in the process of establishing a mechanism for the selection of public inspectors

 

BAGHDAD - The Financial Control Bureau announced on Wednesday (November 7th, 2018) that it is in the process of developing a new mechanism for the selection of public inspectors in all institutions, based on integrity and efficiency.

"The SAI is not with the decision to abolish the offices of the public inspectors in the state institutions, but with the amendment of the order of 57 appointing them," the head of the Financial Control Bureau, Salah Nuri, said in a statement.

He added that the offices were established after 2003 and the factors of failure surrounding them, for several reasons, most notably the selection of inspectors according to the principle of quotas and most of them are not specialists and without a significant service in the country as well as most of the human resources And the budget of the Office of the Inspector-General of the Ministry's budget was linked to the fact that recently the independence of the assignments of the Inspectors General "This is a positive thing."

Nuri added that "according to these factors and the factors we mentioned can not succeed in the offices in the performance of its function, but the development of new mechanisms, revealing" the formation of a committee of the Office of Financial Supervision and the Integrity and Secretariat General of the Council of Ministers has developed mechanisms to choose the inspectors general. "

He explained that "the mechanisms that have been approved require that the selection of public inspectors through the announcement that the candidate has the position of several specifications, including not less service in the country for ten years and have a scientific specialization in law or accounting or administration and the parents of Iraqis and Belongs to any party and has no nationality other than Iraq. "

He pointed out that "the SAI assesses the performance of public inspectors in all institutions and the latest assessment was made in 2017," noting that "the evaluation was conducted on the offices and not people."

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Integrity returns $ 3.5 million to the state treasury from a foreign security company

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{Baghdad: Al Furat News} The Integrity Commission revealed that it was able to recover more than three and a half million US dollars from a foreign security company in the interest of the General Establishment of Civil Aviation.

The Department of Investigation in the body in a statement received by the agency {Euphrates News} a copy of it today, "to form a team of the Directorate of Investigation Baghdad in the body; to investigate and investigate the issue of news contained in the violations in the contract between the Ministry of Transport represented by the General Civil Aviation Corporation with a company Foreign security ". 

The Department explained that "the team moved to Baghdad International Airport, met with the airport manager and the director of contracts department; to identify the paragraphs not implemented the terms of the contract, indicating that the total amount of security services approved for the processing of fundamental and not processed amounted to 2,560,000 million US dollars.
"A technical committee has been formed to prepare the proposed modification of the exit belts in accordance with paragraph 22 of the contract, which stipulates the contractor's commitment to provide security solutions and positive proposals regarding the baggage inspection area at the counterweight area and the achievement of the standard solutions, The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), "noting that" the amount of the item was not implemented from this paragraph by 1.190 billion dinars. " 
The Committee recommended after these amounts debts owed by the foreign company, has been approved the recommendations of the Technical Technical Committee, and approached the financial section of the General Establishment of Civil Aviation; for the purpose of instructing the Committee to pay the security company receivables to deduct the amounts mentioned.

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Integrity brings back $ 3.5 million to the state treasury

 

 

BAGHDAD - The Commission on Integrity revealed Thursday (November 8th, 2018) that it was able to recover more than three and a half million US dollars from a foreign security company in favor of the General Establishment of Civil Aviation. 

"A team from the Directorate of Investigation of Baghdad in the Commission, to investigate and investigate the issue of news contained in the contract between the Ministry of Transport represented by the General Establishment of Civil Aviation with a foreign security company." 

The Department explained that "the team has moved to Baghdad International Airport, met with the airport manager and director of contracts, to identify the paragraphs that are not implemented the terms of the contract," indicating that "the total amount of security services approved for the processing of fundamental and not processed amounted to" 2,560,000 " .

She added that "a technical committee was formed to prepare the proposed modification of the exit belts in accordance with paragraph 22 of the contract, which stipulates the contracting company's commitment to provide security solutions and positive proposals regarding the baggage inspection area at the counterweight zone and the achievement of the standards To find solutions according to the requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organization "ICAO", pointing out that "the amount of the item was not implemented from this paragraph by" 1,190,000,000 "billion dinars" 

She stressed that "the Committee recommended after these amounts debts owed by the foreign company, Recommendations Technical fundamentalist NH, and to approach the financial section of the General Establishment ofCivil Aviation for the purpose of instructing the committee security company benefits exchange for the deduction of theamounts mentioned. " 

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Getting back to this Maliki Complaint: I’d like to add to it if I may....” WHY IS THIS GUY STILL KICKING AROUND? 

Thanks “ B “ for the great articles. Keeps me grounded and I don’t feel so much these days like plucking my nose hairs out first thing in the morning before coffee. ☕️

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We do need to see a serious investigation of all those officials who took funds for their personal use. All should be accountable for their actions against their nation and fellow countrymen.

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09-11-2018 01:48 PM

On charges of corruption .. Legal advocacy in Britain against the nephew of Massoud Barzani

 

 

 

 

Baghdad / News

The British Financial Times reported that a lawsuit was filed in the United Kingdom against Sirwan Barzani, nephew of the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Massoud Barzani, on the existence of corruption files in the work of the company Cork Telecom owned by him.

 The lawsuit filed by Orange France and Agility of Kuwait came on the basis of information that confirms the acquisition of two shares of the two investment companies by the company 'Cork' communications estimated at millions of dollars.

She added that the Cork company managed by Serwan Barzani provided bribes included a house in the city of Wembley, north of London granted to the Executive Director of the Federal Communications and Information Ali al-Khuwaili in exchange for condoning the rights of those foreign companies to shout the company Cork.

 The information, published by the newspaper, is based on two petitions filed by the two investment companies against Cork and the media and communications company, one of which is international, seeking compensation in the amount of 600 million dollars, while the investigation indicates risks to the future investment in Iraq as a result of the alleged fraud and collusion of the information and communications authority, They have seen the documents they reinforce.

 In December 2013, Cork received a series of legal alerts from the Communications and Communications Authority, indicating that the company failed to meet a set of obligations - including the level of investment and the wide spread of the network - and therefore, it must revert to the ownership structure as early as In 2011, but in fact, the Iraqi Media Commission revoked retrospectively its approval to invest communications in Iraq.

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Reckon the entire bunch must have a larcenous streak down their back a mile wide. However, that’s the way ay WE see it. To them it’s how business is conducted.