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| Iraqi premier orders tightening security along Syrian border to face terrorist groups | |
| 2018-10-29 | |
| Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi stressed on Sunday the need for tightening security along the border with neighboring Syria to eradicate terrorist groups scattered there. Abdul-Mahdi made the remarks Sunday during a visit to the headquarters of the Joint Operations Command, where he held a meeting with military and security leaders, Iraqi website Almaalomah quoted Abdul-Mahdi’s media office as saying in a statement. During the meeting, the premier listened to a detailed explanation on efforts exerted to maintain security on the Iraqi-Syrian border and protect Shitte visitors taking part in the Arbaeen religious commemoration. Abdul-Mahdi further praised "heroic acts shown by the Armed Forces in the fight against 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.... terrorists," saying that such heroism will be part of curricula taught at military academies. He also stressed the importance of taking all precautionary measures to pursuit and eliminate IS terrorist everywhere, particularly in the border areas between Iraq and Syria. During a parliament session on Wednesday, Abdul-Mahdi was constitutionally sworn in as new premier of Iraq, announcing almost half of the new cabinet. A total of 220 MPs out of 329 attended the Wednesday’s session, during which 14 ministerial posts were announced. Iraqi politicians have been in a deadlock over the formation of a new government since an election in May. Under an informal power-sharing agreement in place since the 2003 ouster of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, the position of Iraqi president goes to a Kurd. The parliament speaker should be a Sunni Moslem, and the prime minister should be a Shi’a.
In this context, political analyst Hisham al-Hashemi, said that ISIS krazed killer group established itself in the western borders of Iraq and eastern Syria, after neglect by both the Iraqi and Syrian governments and with the blessing of the tribes in those areas back in 2014. Hashemi pointed to the need of providing an Iraqi coordination with the International coalition to counter terrorism on the border as a necessity, noting that this is done by increasing the number of border guards and training them as a professional fighting force and not only a monitoring force on the border. RISK OF TERRORIST GROUPS The political analyst pointed out that the anti-terrorism measures on the Iraqi border face a number of challenges and obstacles that may impede the efforts of the Iraqi leadership to confront the threat of terrorist groups, which threaten the provinces of Nineveh, Salah el-Dinne, Anbar, Karbala and Najaf. Hashemi said that the return of terrorism through gangs operations like blocking roads and staging attacks in the outskirts of cities and villages, are present and the security and military institutions have to face these challenges He said the numbers of ISIS remnants can be estimated in the areas of the Iraqi desert and southern Nineveh to be around 800 members. | |
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