In his weekly televised address,
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...
said the troubled region has turned into an operation center for the 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...
forces of Evil and Ba'athist terrorists.
The Iraqi leader added that his government cannot remain silent while seeing that Arbil has turned into a safe haven for the al-Qaeda linked groups.
Al-Maliki says Kurds have taken advantage of the circumstances and expanded their grip on Iraqi lands.
The premier also warned the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) against a decision to hold a referendum on the fate of Kirkuk. Al-Maliki said the KRG is burning bridges with Baghdad, which would backlash, as both the forces of Evil and Kurdish leadership will eventually lose.
In recent weeks, Iraqi Kurds have expanded their territory by up to 40 percent as the Takfiri forces of Evil of the ISIL seized areas in the west and north of the country.
The recent comments come after remarks by the president of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Masoud Barzani, who has said that measures are being taken for holding a referendum on Kurdistan's future within months.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed support for Kurdish independence.
Premier al-Maliki has strongly rejected the attempts by the KRG to hold the referendum as unconstitutional, saying that it would "damage them a lot."