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| Iraqi education minister resigns over brother’s links with Islamic State | ||
| 2018-12-31 | ||
| Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi Minister of Education Shaimaa al-Hayaali has offered her resignation to Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi amid reports that her brother had links with the terrorist 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.... group. In a press statement on her Twitter account, Hayaali made it clear that her brother, Laith, was "forced at gunpoint to join the Islamic State," adding that he did not carry arms, nor did he kill or help kill any Iraqi. She added that Islamic State holy warriors, after seizing control of Nineveh province, forced citizens to keep their civil posts. Hayaali concluded that her resignation is "now in the hands of Prime Minister Dr. Adel Abdul Mahdi to decide on it once he makes sure that I do not have any links with terrorism or terrorist groups, God forbid." Hayaali assumed office as education minister last Monday
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... made accusations online that her brother, Layth al-Hayali, was an IS member. The accusations were accompanied by two videos dating back to 2016 showing Layth in IS propaganda videos, at a time when he worked for a local administration in IS-held Nineveh province, where Mosul is located. In these videos, the man, whose whereabouts are currently unknown, can be heard denouncing US-led air strikes against the jihadist group. According to media reports and two activists, one of Layth al-Hayali's sons was killed while carrying out a suicide kaboom and another while fighting against Iraqi forces. There was no immediate reaction from the prime minister's office concerning Hayali's resignation. | ||
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