BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister has ordered the security forces not intervene in the current political crisis over who will be the next prime minister.
In a statement issued on his official website, Nouri al-Maliki urged army, police and security forces to stay out of the political crisis and focus on defending the country.
A day earlier, Haider al-Abadi, the deputy speaker of parliament from al-Maliki’s Shiite Dawa party, was selected by President Fouad Massoum to be the new prime minister and was given 30 days to present a new government.
Al-Maliki rejected the move and described it as a constitutional violation. Just before the announcement he ordered elite armyunits into the streets of Baghdad.
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I think that no matter how bad Maliki is nothing can justify what these Sunni ISIS terrorists are doing in the name of islam. They want to establish a caliphate based on their barbaric religious beliefs and terroristic values.This is the same religion behind al-Qaeda. These ISIS folk, their mullahs and their religiom are amoral scum, a disgrace to humanity. I hope these ISIS terrorists are captured and treated they way they have been treating others.
Not a matter of justification. It’s a matter of him being the primary source of the problems that enabled ISIS to get as far as it did.
I really do have problem with the blame Maliki argument. It is a serious mistake to conflate Mailiki with ISIS. ISIS is despicable, pure evil and practices all of the vilest aspects of their sunni religion. Maliki is simply a sleazy politician and is not responsible for arming these sunni genocidal maniacs.
This is simply an attempt by the tyrants in saudi arabia and qatar who funded al-qaeda to establish a caliphate. We cannot blindly have a blatantly pro-sunni foreign policy.
Assume somebody got to Maliki and offered a lot of money for him to just zip it.
Maliki’s decision to cut the Sunnis out of power and stop paying the Sunni Awakening militia and generally shit on them, while simultaneously perpetuating the factionalism, cronyism and corruption that left the army feeling it had nothing worth dying for, created the conditions that have enabled ISIS to do what it has done. ISIS is just the pathogen. Maliki’s the one who created, or at least perpetuated and aggregated the filthy mess it grew in.
A modicum of generosity, a bit of vision and statesman ship were needed. What they got was small-minded bigotry.