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| Erdogan calls Shia paramilitary groups ‘terrorists’, threatening Turkish intervention in Iraq |
| 2017-04-29 |
| [ARA] The Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... labeled the paramilitary forces fighting the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... in Iraq as "terrorists" and part of Iran’s "Persian expansion policy". "Who are al-Hashd al-Shaabi? Who is backing them? The Iraqi parliament supports al-Hashd al-Shaabi, but, honestly, they are a terrorist organization, and should be known who stands behind it," he said during an interview with the Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i channel Al Jazeera on Wednesday. Ahmed al-Assadi, a spokesperson of the Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU), also known as al-Hashd al-Shaabi, called Erdogan’s remarks as "a violation against an Iraqi security institution" that is "recognized by the parliament and the state". Hadi al-Ameri, the former Iraqi minister of transportation and the head of the PMU Badr Organization, one of the biggest PMU forces in Iraq, in response called for a complete stop of trade with ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... On Saturday, the Turkish Ambassador to Iraq, Fatih Yildiz, joined a memorial march on the anniversary of Imam Kazim’s death in Baghdad in order to control the damage. "It’s unfortunate to learn that some regional leaders are still ill-informed by biased or incompetent advices on what’s happening in their neighbourhood," Luay al-Khatteeb, the founding director of the Iraq Energy Institute, co-founder of Iraq Heritage and nonresident Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy told ARA News. "The PMUs like many armed units of the Iraqi Armed Forces are governed by the federal authority and regulated by federal laws," al-Khateeb said. "Although a de-facto Shia majority, but diverse and inclusive enough to depict the social fabric of Iraq, with tens of thousands of Sunni Arabs, Christians and other factions amongst their ranks," he said. |
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