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...
says snuffies belonging to the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
(ISIL) will turn against their Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
n and Qatari supporters who call them "revolutionaries."
Maliki said on Wednesday that the situation in Iraq is due to a conspiracy by certain political factions.
"You hear the Saudi and Qatar and some other Arab media calling them revolutionaries and that the Iraqi army is a sectarian force, but they've forgotten that they are living in countries brimming with sectarianism and marginalization of minorities," al-Maliki said, adding, We tell them and all our friends and Arab brothers to be sure that terrorism will never be limited to the Iraqi borders."
Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Slats grabbed for his rosco...
he expressed optimism that Iraq would soon weather the ongoing crisis.
Maliki also said army forces will continue their operations against the ISIL 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...
group until victory is achieved. He expressed gratitude to Iraq's most senior Shia holy man Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistan, for encouraging volunteers to join the army and help the government.
More than two million Iraqis have already volunteered to join the fight against the Takfiri bully boys.
The ISIL Takfiri group threatens to take its acts of violence to several Iraqi cities, including the capital, Storied Baghdad.