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Baghdad may halt al-Hol repatriations after USAID funding cuts
All that oil money and you can’t be bothered to bring back your ISIS citizens from prison camp where the Kurds have been supporting your citizens on a shoestring budget? Shameful. [Rudaw] Baghdad is considering putting a halt to its repatriation of Iraqi nationals linked to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) from al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava) due to a lack of funds after Washington suspended foreign aid, a ministry official told Rudaw on Saturday. Migration and displaced ministry spokesperson Ali Abbas said they lack funds at al-Jada camp in Nineveh province, where repatriated individuals are taken to be prepared for reintegration into their communities. The "budget issues" arose because organizations operating in Jada rely on funds from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Abbas said. US President Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... has temporarily suspended funding for the agency as part of his plan to reorganize the government. The migration and displaced ministry also does not have the necessary funds to run the camp, Abbas said, but added discussions are underway to possibly transfer funds from other government sectors. According to the latest statistics from the ministry, more than 20,000 Iraqis, including women and kiddies, remain in al-Hol camp. Baghdad had set 2027 as the deadline to finish returning all its citizens from the camp. Iraqis and Syrians make up the majority of the 40,000 ISIS-linked people being held at the camp, which has been branded a breeding ground for terrorism. The repatriation of ISIS-linked citizens has sparked opposition in Iraq. Some tribes and communities are unwilling to accept people associated with the group that committed heinous human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... abuses and war crimes from 2014 to 2017, when they controlled vast swathes of the country. On Sunday, Iraq repatriated 155 families from al-Hol. Related: Hol camp: 2025-02-09 'Soon we'll be free and ISIS will be revived': Jihadi brides' threat to the West as Syrian prison camp guards admit the 40,000 inmates are on verge of freedom and Islamic State could return 'in just days' Hol camp: 2025-01-31 Iraq repatriates 360 nationals from Syria camp Hol camp: 2025-01-22 SDF says it arrested over 270 ISIS suspects in 2024 Related: Jada camp: 2025-01-31 Iraq repatriates 360 nationals from Syria camp Jada camp: 2025-01-10 Iraq repatriates over 700 from Syria ISIS detention camp Jada camp: 2024-09-22 Four thousand Iraqis return from al-Hol camp: Ministry Related: Nineveh province: 2025-01-31 Iraq repatriates 360 nationals from Syria camp Nineveh province: 2025-01-10 Iraq repatriates over 700 from Syria ISIS detention camp Nineveh province: 2024-11-27 Iraqi security forces arrest 3 suspected ISIS members in Nineveh Posted by: trailing wife 2025-02-16 |
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