[Iran Press TV] Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014...
has fired several senior security forces commanders as battles with Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
faceless myrmidons continue in the country.
The commanders were dismissed because they failed to perform their national duty, said the Iraqi premier on Tuesday.
The dismissed included Staff Lieutenant General Mahdi al-Gharawi, who is the top commander of Nineveh province, whose scenic provincial capital djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
was the first to fall to the murderous Moslems' hands following their lightning advance last week.
Maliki also ordered that one of the commanders face court-martial for desertion.
Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising. And then he smelled the smoke...
several people were killed after two kabooms struck the Iraqi capital.
Earlier in the day, a new video emerged online showing what appears to be the aftermath of a massacre by Takfiri faceless myrmidons of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
(ISIL) in an open market in Mosul.