... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
to the 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 (ISIS) more than a year ago placed former prime minister Nouri al-Malki's name at the top of the list, a Kurdish MP said.
Other brass hats blamed for the fall of Iraq's second-largest city include Babakir Zebari, chief of staff of the Iraiq army, Abud Qanbar, commander of the joint operations in Iraq, Ali Ghedan, commander of the combat forces, and Saadun Dlaimi, former defense minister.
The report also implicated former Mosul governor Atheel Nujaifi, said Shakawan Abdulla, deputy head of the investigative committee and a Kurdish MP in the Iraqi parliament.
"A top official accused for the fall of Mosul is the former Iraqi 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...
, whose name appears at the top of the list," Abdulla told Rudaw.
He said MPs from Maliki's State of law bloc "did not vote in favor of submitting the final report and they tried to remove Maliki from the list but failed to do so," he told Rudaw.
The committee was composed of 26 members, 17 of whom voted in favor of the report, which included the names of 35 Iraqi army leaders and brass hats in Iraq involved.
The report is in two parts, first naming those directly responsible for losing Mosul, and the second blaming those who were negligent when ISIS attacked Mosul, including Nujaifi.
The report has also accused the Turkish consulate in Mosul.
The Iraqi parliament formed a committee of 26 MPs last December to find and punish officials who abandoned Mosul to ISIS.
The faceless myrmidons captured Mosul after the Iraqi Army fled without a fight, leaving large caches of modern and heavy weapons behind.