Iraq: Ex-PM Maliki rejects Mosul report findings
Former Iraqi prime minister Nuri Al-Maliki on Tuesday rejected a report implicating him in the fall of Iraq’s second city Mosul to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in June 2014. In a post on his official Facebook page, Maliki said the findings of the parliamentary panel tasked with producing the report had “no […]Hamza Mustafa writes for Asharq Al Awsat:
Former Iraqi prime minister Nuri Al-Maliki on Tuesday rejected a report implicating him in the fall of Iraq’s second city Mosul to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in June 2014. In a post on his official Facebook page, Maliki said the findings of the parliamentary panel tasked with producing the report had “no value” and that the panel was “neither objective nor impartial.”
He accused Turkey and the Kurds of being involved in the city’s fall, adding that “what happened in Mosul was a conspiracy planned in Ankara, then the conspiracy moved to Erbil.” The report, which was referred to Iraq’s judiciary by parliament on Monday, calls for Maliki and other officials to face trial over their role in the fall of Mosul to ISIS. It alleges that Maliki knowingly appointed commanders in the city engaged in corruption and who subsequently failed to accurately inform him of the true extent of the ISIS threat.
