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 |  Subject: The Real Bottom Line: When Iraq's government can't defend, PM Maliki calls on civilians to arm themselves  Sat Jun 14, 2014 12:41 am | |
| Barack Obama’s oblique acknowledgement on Thursday that the US had left the people of Iraq at the mercy of a thug in a suit was the reality check that Americans had to have.
In casting this week’s dramatic march by Islamist militias into Iraq’s north-west as a wake-up call for the dictator-like Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Mr Obama was being more truthful about the aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq than is usually allowed.
For months we’ve been hearing that rising violence in Iraq is spillover from the conflict in neighbouring Syria – and it is, but only in terms of the timing. The truth of Iraq is that the country was always likely to implode after US forces left; and almost certainly so because of the sectarian stubbornness of Mr Maliki, the man the Americans drafted as prime minister.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/a-wakeup-call-for-the-architects-of-the-new-iraq-20140613-zs6sq.html
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| | Subject: Re: The Real Bottom Line: When Iraq's government can't defend, PM Maliki calls on civilians to arm themselves Sun Jun 22, 2014 2:19 am | |
| Maliki Orders Inmates Freed to Join Militias
SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region – Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered the release of 2,000 Shiite prisoners in the north to take up arms against Sunni insurgents advancing on Baghdad, as his embattled government formally asked the US for air strikes to stop the rebels.
"The order reached our prison on Thursday and then the Shiite prisoners, numbering 2,000, were separated,” said an official at the Chamchamal prison in the autonomous Kurdistan Region, speaking to Rudaw on condition of anonymity.
The jail is located in the town of Chamchamal, west of Sulaimani province, and houses some of the most dangerous prisoners across Iraq. Thousands of inmates were recently transferred there from the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad and from Kirkuk.
“The (Shiite) prisoners had been sentenced to death or life imprisonment, and it was decided to fly them back to Baghdad," said the source.
He added that maximum security was in place at the prison, after inmates from Kirkuk were transferred there following the fall of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, to the insurgents last week.
http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/19062014
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