The official, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, said the first operation to eliminate Abadi, who took power last September and has been hailed for his sweeping reforms, was in its early stages.
However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
the second bid -- at Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone - to assassinate the premier was "advanced" in reaching its target, and led to the arrests of suspects, who are army officers.
The official said these liquidation attempts were due to Abadi's reforms.
Abadi's predecessor Prime Minister
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...
was denounced by critics for estranging Sunnis in the country, leading to the seizure of Iraq's northern city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
by Islamist bully boyz in June last year.
The report came after Abadi said he expected a coup against him, and this might cost him his life as well.
Last month, Abadi abolished the positions of vice-president and vice-premier. As a result, Maliki, the-then vice president, was the most senior politician to be removed from his post.
According to the official, Abadi recently criticized a government convoy - seen in the southern city of Basra -- awaiting Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, head of the powerful Revolutionary Guard's elite Quds unit.
The official said the premier did not know of Soleimani's visit to Iraq and expressed surprise and concern that the Iranian general's visit was not official.
Images circulating online showed Soleimani with the mainly Shiite militia volunteer groups of the Population Mobilization units in Iraq fighting 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....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) bully boys. ISIS controls much of the country's Sunni-dominant north and western regions.