TODAY, THESE REPORTER WERE SUMMONED TO THE WHITE HOUSE FOR A MEETING WITH VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS WHO WANTED TO SPEAK TO US -- EXCLUSIVE: MUST CREDIT BULLY BOY PRESS& CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S BIG MIX-- SPOKE TO A SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE -- MAINLY WHITE HOUSE WORKERS THAT HER STAFF CORRALLED AND USED FOR PROPS. SHE DECLARED:
I DID NOTHING WHEN THEY CAME FOR JULIAN ASSANGE.
I DID NOTHING WHEN THEY CAME FOR ED SNOWDEN.
NOW THEY HAVE COME FOR THE SWEETIN AND I MUST NOT BE SILENT.
HARRIS WAS, OF COURSE, REFERRING TO THE JUNE 27TH SHOVING OF JODIE SWEETIN WHEN THE ACTRESS WAS PROTESTING THE OVERTURNING OF ROE V.. WADE.
If the Security Council takes a pass, Iraq appears ready to address it themselves. MEHR NEWS AGENCY reports:
An Iraqi Parliament member announced that the Iraqi Parliament is reviewing passing a law on expelling Turkish forces from Iraqi soil.
"The Iraqi parliament is determined to determine the task of the case of the illegal presence of Turkish army forces in the areas of northern Iraq, which is considered a clear violation of its sovereignty," the source cited.
The Coordination Framework, an umbrella parliamentary bloc including all Iran-backed Shia factions, formally nominated Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani to be the new Iraqi prime minister, Iraqi state media reported Monday.
"Today, the leaders of the Shia framework met in positive conditions and they unanimously agreed to nominate Mr Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani for the [Iraqi] premiership," read a statement released by the Coordination Framework.
Al-Sudani, 52, is a Shia Iraqi lawmaker from the south-eastern Maysan Governorate. He has a Bachelor's degree in agricultural sciences. He has held several posts and ministerial portfolios in the Iraqi government, including the governor of Maysan, the minister of human rights in 2010, and the minister of labour and social affairs in 2014.
The attention of Iraqis has shifted to the disagreement between Kurdish forces over the nomination of the country’s next president, after the Shia camp within the Coordinating Framework managed to reach an agreement on the selection of the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani as its nominee for prime minister.
Iraqi political analysts say that the approach of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) could scupper any deal with The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) to agree on a nominee for the presidency because the KDP is not looking for a compromise with the PUK and continues to pressure the pro-Iran Shia political alliance, the Coordination Framework in a way that some descibe as an "attempt at blackmail"...
You can't jump to the prime minister. A prime minister-designate is named by the president. Once named, the designate has 30 days to form a Cabinet which is the test that proves the designate is up to the job and, if so, can move from prime minister designate to prime minister.
By custom, the president is a Kurd.
The forming of a Cabinet in 30 days has never really been held and that's why Iraq's governments have been in disarray from the start.
So what might be considered is how much does the Constitution have to be followed?
The Constitution is clear that a president is elected and the president's first job is to then name a prime minister-designate. Could Iraq use the existing president to name a prime minister-designate? It probably could attempt to but doing so would make the KDP angry and probably lose their votes.
Another step around the impasse?
The Coordinating Framework could nominate, in front of Parliament, a person for the presidency. By custom, it would need to be a Kurd and it would need to be someone popular enough to get the votes. There is no rule in the Constitution that says the PUK and the KDP get to work out who the president of Iraq is. They can be bypassed. But you're going to need a very popular nominee to do that.
So, at present, the political stalemate continues.
The thing about science is that every day is a new discovery. THE GUARDIAN reports:
Scientists have found more than 30 potentially new species living at the bottom of the sea.
Researchers from the UK’s Natural History Museum
used a remotely operated vehicle to collect specimens from the abyssal
plains of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the central Pacific.
Previously, creatures from this area had been studied only from
photographs.
The study, published in the journal Zookeys,
found there is a high species diversity of larger organisms in the
abyss. Of the 55 specimens recovered, 48 were of different species.
The animals found include segmented worms,
invertebrates from the same family as centipedes, marine animals from
the same family as jellyfish, and different types of coral.
Thirty-six
specimens were found at more than 4,800 metres deep, two were collected
on a seamount slope at 4,125 metres, and 17 were found at between 3,095
and 3,562 metres deep.
The findings have potentially important implications for deep-sea mining,
as humans become more interested in exploiting minerals from the
seabed, because it seems the activity has the potential to disturb many
creatures.
That's really interesting. The ocean holds so much we need to discover and learn about -- and protect.
Tuesday, July 26, 2022. Two bigots and bullies in Congress attack a
Canadian online, there is no medical plan to address COVID in the US,
Iraq announces a nominee for prime minister-designate (we're not even to
the point of them having a prime minister-designate yet) and Turkey
continues to deny attacking Iraq.
US House Reps Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are an international embarrassment. The
two hags decided to attack a man because he's gay. The man's Canadian,
doesn't live in the US but they wanted to spew hatred. What
they're doing is hate speech and in the US that's embarrassing.
However, our northern neighbor that we share a border with? Well Canada
has criminalized hate speech. So the two hags aren't just being
bitches, they're being potential criminals in the eyes of Canada. There
was no reason for the hags to pick on the man. Now they should have
the curse they deserve which is they should reap what they sow, they
should have the life they truly deserve -- never ending misery. May
karma get them both.
I don't understand why Congress
has an ethics review board if nonsense like this takes place. The two
hags engaged in online bullying. Supposedly, that's something that's
not supposed to happen. The man did nothing to them and they are
encouraging attacks on him.
At yesterday’s White House COVID-19 press briefing, Press Secretary
Karine Jean-Pierre declared, “As we have said, almost everyone is going
to get COVID and because of the hard work we have done since day one
turning around the disjointed COVID response we had inherited, we have
the tools to ensure that people can go about their daily life and work.”
Biden’s
spokewoman then added, “The president is fully vaccinated, twice
boosted, and taking Paxlovid. His current health speaks to how Americans
should avail themselves to boosters and treatments.”
This is a
remarkable admission in that it explicitly states that the Biden
administration has washed its hands of any attempt to stem a pandemic
that has already killed a million people in America and 20 million
around the world. “Everyone is going to get COVID” should be read as a
statement of intent. It confirms that a policy of mass infection, mass
death and mass murder is the agenda of the US president and the ruling
class for which he speaks.
Hospitalizations and deaths continue to climb as BA.5’s dominance
grows. Nearly 450 people are dying every day from COVID-19. This
translates to 164,000 a year, five times the average killed by influenza
and a toll that would have been considered inconceivable before the
beginning of the pandemic. And this does not take into account the
predictions by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of another
massive surge of infections this fall and winter.
Beyond the
immediate death toll, one in five of those who are infected and survive
will experience Long COVID, and a third of these can suffer from
debilitating disease. Yet, with $1.3 billion given to the NIH (National
Institutes of Health) to study the Post-Acute COVID Syndrome (the formal
title of Long COVID), there is not a single therapeutic trial up and
running. The press secretary was not asked about this and would have had
nothing to say.
Meanwhile, study after study has documented that
even mild COVID-19 infections can accelerate the aging process in adults
and children. Allowing everyone to get infected means a generation of
children and teenagers who will be deliberately crippled even before
they have ventured into the world on their own.
Hospitals across
the country are facing drastic and unprecedented staffing shortages,
which are further compounding worker burnout. Infections and
reinfections are causing health care workers to fall sick and forcing
them to choose between staying home to care for themselves or coming in
to work and infecting their patients. Many hospitals are considering
eliminating routine COVID-19 testing to cut wait times in overcrowded
emergency rooms.
Moving on to Iraq, The attack by the Turkish government last week remains
in the news. Of course, the government of Turkey denies the attack.
The same way the government of Turkey denies the historic Armenian
genocide. Iraq lodged a complaint with the United Nations Security
Council and they want the council to hold a session addressing the
attack. That session is supposed to take place today. In the meantime, ASHARQ AL-AWSAT reports:
The United Nations Security Council condemned in the strongest terms
on Monday the attack on a tourist resort in Iraq’s northern Dohuk
province on July 20.
The attack resulted in at least nine civilian deaths, including children.
The members of the Security Council expressed their deepest sympathy
and condolences to the families of the victims and to the Iraqi
government and the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, wished a speedy and full
recovery to those who were injured, and expressed their support for the
Iraqi authorities in their investigations, read a statement.
The statement comes as Baghdad has filed a complaint against Turkey
at the UNSC, requesting an urgent session to discuss the deadly
artillery attack that Baghdad blames on Turkey, the Iraqi foreign
ministry said on Saturday.
The ministry spokesman Ahmad al-Sahaf said Iraq's chargé d'affaires
had been recalled from Ankara in the wake of the attack. Iraq's
parliament also held a special session Saturday, with lawmakers deciding
to form a committee to investigate the matter further.
Authorities in Iraq insist that the attack was carried out by Turkish
forces, holding them directly responsible for the deaths and injuries
of Iraqi civilians. Ankara has attributed the attack to members of the
PKK terrorist group.
The National spoke to two families who lost two members, one an 11-month-old baby and the other a 24-year-old woman.
Some of the victims were from the city of Hilla, located in central Babylon province.
Durgham lost his first and only baby daughter, Zahraa.
“You can see me alive, but I am like a dead body,” he told The National.
“My
daughter was less than a year old, the family and I were waiting and
preparing for her birthday party, so, what kind of life would we live
after this big loss?” he asked.
“I
cannot forget her image, her voice while playing at home, or even the
last phone call with her when she can only say: ‘Baba’”, he said.
“I had not seen my daughter since she went with my family to Kurdistan, she was killed with the same clothes she wore at home”.
Alex MacDonald Tweets:
"Turkey’s operations in Iraq have continued for years and claimed civilian lives before. The casualties were largely met with silence since they were mostly local villagers, while the latest victims were tourists from other parts of Iraq."
Mina Aldroubi (THE NATIONAL) notes,
"In 2016, Turkey established a permanent military presence in Bashiqa,
about 75 kilometres from Dohuk." Turkey now has at least five military
bases in Iraq, they have ground troops in the country and they attack
with War Planes and drones. All of this takes place in violation of
Iraq's national sovereignty and all of these actions amount to acts of
war carried out by the government of Turkey against Iraq.
A 1984 protocol that allowed Turkish troops to pursue militants to a
depth of five kilometers (three miles) inside Iraq and required them to
pull out within 72 hours ended in 1988, when the two sides failed to
renew it. Such an arrangement would have become irrelevant anyway, given
the extensive web
of Turkish military bases, outposts and checkpoints inside Iraq today
as well as repeated air raids as far as in Sinjar and Mahkmour, lying
respectively 160 kilometers (99 miles) and 218 kilometers (135 miles)
from the border. Ankara has cited the UN Charter’s Article 51 on
self-defense to justify its cross-border operations since 2017.
There is growing apprehension that Turkey’s actions amount to an
expanding occupation. Statements coming from Ankara have not helped
allay such fears. Presidential adviser Ayhan Ogan,
for instance, warned July 21 that “if Turkey’s security concerns are
ignored and, moreover, provoked, Turkey would create a new security belt
all the way from Aleppo to Mosul.” Such a perspective points to an integrated approach on Ankara’s plan for a 30-kilometer-deep safe zone in northern Syria and its actions in northern Iraq.
Erdogan has taken advantage of the escalating tensions between Moscow
and Western capitals over the conflict in Ukraine, to ensure the West
remains silent over its escalating military operations in northern Iraq
as it prepares to send its forces into neighboring Syria to target the
People’s Protection Units (YPG), a group that Ankara considers an
offshoot of the PKK, while the United States considers it a strong ally.
It is speculated that Turkey, which is a member of NATO, agreed to
the accession of Finland and Sweden on the condition that NATO looks the
other way as Turkey launches renewed attacks against PKK militants.
Since the parliamentary elections in October last year, Iraqi
political parties have entered into a fierce competition to form a new
government. With continued political dysfunction, sectarian conflict and
institutional corruption, the attempt to push back against renewed
Turkish operations against PKK militants could be in vain before the
formation of a strong central government. Until a permanent government
is formed, Iraqi sovereignty will be viewed as malleable.
A
permanent government? Back in October, Iraq held elections. The
country still doesn't have a new prime minister or president. However,
there is some movement on the political front. THE NEW ARAB reports:
The Coordination Framework, an umbrella
parliamentary bloc including all Iran-backed Shia factions, formally
nominated Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani to be the new Iraqi prime minister,
Iraqi state media reported Monday.
"Today, the leaders of the Shia framework
met in positive conditions and they unanimously agreed to nominate Mr
Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani for the [Iraqi] premiership," read a statement
released by the Coordination Framework.
Al-Sudani,
52, is a Shia Iraqi lawmaker from the south-eastern Maysan Governorate.
He has a Bachelor's degree in agricultural sciences. He has held
several posts and ministerial portfolios in the Iraqi government,
including the governor of Maysan, the minister of human rights in 2010,
and the minister of labour and social affairs in 2014.
As I note here from time to time, my brother is gay. So I don't think it's something to cheer when two women in Congress decide to mock and tear apart a man because he's gay. And I don't think they really should be talking about Canadians to begin with.
They are evil and they will rot in hell for the hate that they spew. I honestly believe that and I don't feel sorry for them.
I feel sorry for the people like my brother who've gone through life being mocked and bullied and apparently still have to put up with people like US House Reps Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert.
They should be ashamed of themselves. They're hate merchants. They peddle hate.
Don't remember any books in the Bible where Jesus was hating on people and ridiculing them.
Monday, July 25, 2022. The Iraqi government sings along with PJ
Harvey while Jimmy Dore thinks he's 'educating' -- we will expect the
retraction and correction over the next 24 hours, Jimmy, or else expect
Sam Seder to have hours of fun laughing at you.
Who
will save us from the stupid? Here's Jimmy Dore telling you that "NPR's
turning on Zelensky and Ukraine" -- the pot head comedian says making
it clear that he is not fit to run for president. If you missed it, the
People's Party supposedly wants to draft him to run for the president
of the United States in 2024 because there aren't enough clowns in
politics already. Here's the video.
Stupid man, stupid man, stupid man.
NPR
did not report any such things. NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO reports many
stories on air. Over the airwaves, it's radio. They feature those
stories -- often with transcriptions -- at their website. They
sometimes do 'digital packages' of major stories or popular stories if
they're on science. NPR did not write the story Jimmy Dore is stupidly
insisting is their story.
Look at the video. In the
left hand corner you have "npr" in colored letters. In the right hand
corner, you have "THE ASSOCIATED PRESS." NPR, like many other US
outlets, published the AP story. That's what Jimmy Dore stupidly thinks
is a report done by NPR.
Idiot.
You can see in the video the page he's displaying but is too stupid to look at or to grasp what he's seeing. Click here for the page at NPR and here's a section of it to prove the point:
Corruption concerns involving Ukraine are revived as the war with Russia drags on
The Associated Press
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential
Press Office on July 8, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy,
attends a meeting with military officials during his visit the war-hit
Dnipropetrovsk region.
Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's
dismissal of senior officials is casting an inconvenient light on an
issue that the Biden administration has largely ignored since the
outbreak of war with Russia: Ukraine's history of rampant corruption and
shaky governance.
As it presses ahead with providing tens of
billions of dollars in military, economic and direct financial support
aid to Ukraine and encourages its allies to do the same, the Biden
administration is now once again grappling with longstanding worries
about Ukraine's suitability as a recipient of massive infusions of
American aid.
CNBC ran the AP report, BANGOR DAILY NEWS ran it, ARGUS PRESS, FOX NEWS in Memphis,
and on and on. If you GOOGLE just the first paragraph, you will find
it ran all over the US and has some 715,000 search results. This was
five days ago. By the way, the authors are Matthew Lee and Nomaan
Merchant.
But there's the tubby boy with the fat head telling you an AP story is NPR. The only more stupid than Jimmy? His followers.
love your channel,you’re they only American who tell the truth,thank you ,God bless you,
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Yeah, Jimmy, great show except that what you're claiming never happened.
Yeah, Jimmy, you're the only American who tells the truth . . . if 'truth' now equals lies.
I
guess when you bring on a convicted pedophile and registered sex
offender like Scott Ritter and tell your audience how wonderful he is
and you see them buy those lies that you decide why not lie all the
time?
Maybe that's how you end up proclaiming NPR has done this and reported that when they did nothing.
Does
no one on Jimmy Dore's show know how to read? Or are they all so sick
of his preening ass that they just waive him through so they can laugh
at him?
What an idiot.
All he had to
do was take a minute to look at the screen projected behind him. But I
guess when you think you know everything, stopping a moment for basic
facts is just too much.
On this topic -- outlets getting facts
wrong -- Ava and I wrote our piece yesterday for THIRD and it's on a
'documentary' that can't be bothered with facts. We worked four hours
on it. THIRD can get the other content together or not, it's posting
this evening. Sorry to be that way but I don't feel good. I've been
throwing up and I'm not the mood to spend anymore time on THIRD this
week.
In February 2021, by order of President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine shut down three domestic television channels, accusing them of spreading Russian “propaganda.” Three months later, Zelenksky arrested Viktor Medvedchuk, who was at the time
leading the second-biggest party in Ukraine’s national parliament, the
pro-Russia and Eurosceptic Opposition Platform for Life (OPZZh).
Zelensky didn’t have trouble incinerating vaunted democratic norms
well-before Russia crossed the Rubicon into Ukraine this year. So it was
no surprise when he did it again
amid the war in late March, invoking emergency powers under martial law
to nationalize TV channels and ban 11 opposition parties, including
OPZZh — all supposedly done in the name of combatting Russian
misinformation and Russian sympathizers, even though OPZZh’s
then-chairman, Yuriy Boyko, denounced the war
and called for a ceasefire and the withdrawal of Russian troops from
Ukraine. Zelensky, however, wouldn’t miss another opportunity to clip
the wings of political opposition in his country, certainly not now that
Western media rationalizes and glorifies his every move.
But the portrait of the Ukraine President as a democratic paragon
whitewashes the real Zelensky and conceals a vast web of corruption and
international skullduggery of which Ukraine is situated in the centre.
Understanding the real Zelensky, requires seeing him as a creation of
Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky. He is, in truth, a puppet of
intrigue.
The Pandora Papers
It might be hard to believe now, but revelations from documents in the Pandora Papers
— millions of files from offshore service providers leaked to the
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and shared with
partners around the world — sent Zelensky reeling last year, threatening to end
his political career. Though the actor-turned-politico campaigned as an
anti-corruption reformer, the Pandora Papers showed him to be just as
crooked as his predecessors.
Of more than 300 politicians and public officials, including several
current and former national leaders, in more than 91 countries and
territories to whom the documents were linked, Ukraine was home to more secret offshore holdings than any other, including Russia. The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which contributed
to the investigation, found that just before Zelensky was elected
president, “he gifted his stake in a key offshore company, the British
Virgin Islands-registered Maltex Multicapital Corp., to his business
partner — soon to be his top presidential aide. And in spite of giving
up his shares, the documents show that an arrangement was soon made that
would allow the offshore to keep paying dividends to a company that now
belongs to his wife.”
As it was with crackdowns on free speech and political opposition, Zelensky’s office attempted to justify the use of offshores
by blaming the specter of Russian aggression. An adviser to Zelensky’s
chief of staff said the offshores were necessary to “protect” the
group’s incomes against the “aggressive actions” of the “corrupt” regime
of former President Viktor Yanukovych, who was ousted in a US-backed
color revolution in 2014. The expensive properties acquired by Zelensky associates in the center of London with the offshores, it seems, were but humble havens for persecuted Ukrainians.
Instead of inventing 'facts,' Jimmy Dore should try just amplifying them. There's more than enough to go around. At WSWS, Andre Damon notes:
The US military is considering “moving aircraft carriers or sending
fighter planes for close air support” as part of a potential trip by US
house speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, the Washington Post reported Saturday.
The discussions about US military actions in support of Pelosi’s trip were first reported in an op-ed by Josh Rogin, who wrote,
The
U.S. military is devising options for protecting Pelosi’s delegation,
who—as is normal procedure for congressional delegations to Taiwan—would
be flying on a military plane. The measures under consideration include
moving aircraft carriers or sending fighter planes for close air
support. That, in turn, could be misinterpreted by the Chinese side as
an aggressive rather than a defensive measure.
The
discussions took place amid warnings by Chinese officials that the
scheduled trip by Pelosi could trigger a military clash between Chinese
and US forces.
In a separate article, the Post reported: “The Biden
administration is increasingly concerned that a planned trip by House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan next month could spark a major crisis
across the Taiwan Strait, and the White House and an array of national
security officials have briefed Pelosi and her team about the risks of
traveling now, administration officials said.”
In a separate article, the Post
quoted Evan Medeiros, a former top White House China expert in the
Obama administration, as saying, “The Taiwan issue … could spark
war—including nuclear war—between the two largest economies in the
world.”
On Wednesday, US President Joe Biden said military officials believed it was “not a good idea” for Pelosi to visit Taiwan.
But
despite Biden’s public comments, and public warnings to the press made
by White House officials, including National Security Advisor Jake
Sullivan, Pelosi has not publicly called off the trip. Asked to comment,
she said, “it's important for us to show support” to Taiwan. Asked
about Biden’s comments, Pelosi replied, “maybe the military was afraid
our plane would get shot down or something like that by the Chinese.”
Moving to a different topic . . .
I've seen and done things I want to forget; Coming from an unearthly place, Longing to see a woman's face, Instead of the words that gather pace, The words that maketh murder.
These, these, these are the words- The words that maketh murder. These, these, these are the words- The words that maketh murder. These, these, these are the words- Murder...
These, these, these are the words- The words that maketh murder.
I've seen and done things I want to forget; I've seen a corporal whose nerves were shot Climbing behind the fierce, gone sun, I've seen flies swarming everyone, Soldiers fell like lumps of meat.
These are the words, the words are these. Death lingering, stunk, Flies swarming everyone, Over the whole summit peak, Flesh quivering in the heat. This was something else again. I fear it cannot be explained. The words that make, the words that make Murder.
What if I take my problem to the United Nations?
What if I take my problem to the United Nations?
What if I take my problem to the United Nations?
What if I take my problem to the United Nations?
What if I take my problem to the United Nations?
What if I take my problem to the United Nations?
-- "The Words That Maketh Murder,' written by PJ Harvey, first appears on her album LET ENGLAND SHAKE
What if I take my problem to the United Nations? Iraq's doing just that.
The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency session on Tuesday to discuss Wednesday’s bombardment in northern Iraq that Baghdad blames on Turkey, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein has said.
The
attack on a tourist resort in the district of Zakho in Iraq’s northern,
semi-autonomous Kurdish region killed nine holidaymakers, including a
child, and wounded 31 others.
Iraq's
government has blamed the assault on Turkish troops, who have launched
incursions against the proscribed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK,
inside Iraqi territory since the 1980s. Ankara has denied it was behind
the attack and instead accused the PKK.
Rufus in Toronto Tweets:
Turkey launched rockets into Iraq and killed 9 civilians. The entire west is silent as if this never happened.
Turkey has “expansionist” goals behind its repeated attacks on Iraqi
territory, an Iraqi official said on Sunday of the complaint filed by
Iraq to the UN Security Council following a deadly bombardment in the
Kurdistan Region that Baghdad and Erbil blamed on Ankara.
The council is set to meet Tuesday in an emergency session to discuss
Wednesday’s bombardment in Duhok province’s Zakho that killed nine
Iraqi tourists, sparking national outrage in the country. Iraqi and Kurdish officials attributed the attack to Turkey which denied involvement.
Turkish violations since 2018 have numbered a staggering 22,740, Ahmed al-Sahaf, spokesperson for the Iraqi foreign ministry said,
adding that "the number of memoranda and complaints submitted by the
Iraqi government to the Turkish side amounted to 296 complaints."
Sahaf further reiterated Iraq's stance in denying a "security or
military" agreement with Turkey, and blamed Ankara for having
"expansionist goals behind the attacks it is carrying out."
Suhad Talabany Tweets:
The Iraqi Security and Defense Committee on Sunday stressed the need to put an end to Turkey's "repeated" attacks in Iraq, in response to the deadly bombardment that targeted Duhok earlier this week.
#Baghdad#Iraq#Kurdistan#twitterkurds#Turkey
The Chief of Staff of the Iraqi Army, Lieutenant General Abdul Amir
Rashid Yarallah, revealed new details about the Turkish forces deployed
in the Iraqi territories, during a speech in the extraordinary
parliament session held on Saturday to discuss the Turkish attacks on
Iraq and the recent bombing of Dohuk governorate.
Yarallah explained that there are five main bases for the Turkish
forces located in northern Iraq, these bases have more than four
thousand Turkish soldiers.
Yarallah elaborated that the Turkish incursion has been increasing
lately as the number of sites where Turkish troops are stationed were 40
sites in 2021, increased to 90 sites in the beginning of 2022, and now
they are 100 sites inside Iraq. He added that these sites are not far
from the areas of Zakho, Amadiya and Dohuk in northern Iraq.
Yarallah renewed his calls to send forces from the Iraqi army and the
Peshmerga to these areas in order not to give the Turkish forces an
opportunity to advance or deploy artillery.
