Exclusive: Atheel al-Nujaifi, (click here) the governor of Mosul, calls for fragmentation of Iraq and establishment of an Arab Sunni army to fight ISIS
By Ruth Sherlock and Carol Malouf in Erbil
6:28PM BST 12 Jun 2014
The ousted governor of Mosul has called for the fragmentation of Iraq into sectarian cantons, after the national Iraqi army fled when extremists from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham attacked his city.
Speaking from the Kurdish city of Erbil, to where he escaped when ISIS militants attacked his office, Atheel al-Nujaifi outlined to The Telegraph a plan in which his Ninevah province, including its capital Mosul, would build an Arab Sunni army that is autonomous from Baghdad.
Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, "didn't devolve authority to us before, but now we must do it. Now we are saying his centralisation policies have failed," Mr Nujaifi said....
It would be very wise for Turkey to open a dialogue with the north Iraqi provinces to consider bolstering their ability to protect their communities, even have personnel that are armed well enough to support a resistance. Turkey would be foolish not to protect it's border with Iraq and offer whatever assistance the Kurds and northern Iraqi Sunnis need.
It would be very wise for Turkey to open a dialogue with the north Iraqi provinces to consider bolstering their ability to protect their communities, even have personnel that are armed well enough to support a resistance. Turkey would be foolish not to protect it's border with Iraq and offer whatever assistance the Kurds and northern Iraqi Sunnis need.
