MIDEAST-CRISIS/IRAQ-MOSUL MALIKI Iraq's Maliki says report on fall of Mosul has "no value"

Record ID: 143467

  • Title: MIDEAST-CRISIS/IRAQ-MOSUL MALIKI Iraq's Maliki says report on fall of Mosul has "no value"
  • Date: 18th August 2015
  • Summary: OUTSIDE MOSUL, IRAQ (FILE - 2014) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) CONVOY OF IRAQI MILITARY VEHICLES PULLING OUT FROM MOSUL MORE OF MILITARY VEHICLES PULLING OUT OF MOSUL
  • Embargoed: 2nd September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA8NLL21TT28ER9DYURCZBZD2VK
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
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    EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS MATERIAL WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY 4:3
    Iraq's former prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, on Tuesday (August 18) condemned as having "no value" a parliamentary panel's findings on the fall of Mosul to Islamic State which called for him and other top officials to stand trial for negligence.
    "What happened in Mosul was a conspiracy planned in Ankara, then the conspiracy moved to Erbil," Maliki said in posts on the social media website Facebook, referring to the capitals of Turkey and the Kurdistan Regional Government.
    Iraq's parliament on Monday (August 17) referred to the judiciary a report calling for the trial of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and dozens of other top officials in connection with the fall of Mosul to Islamic State last year.
    Iraqiya TV showed the vote in parliament was taken by a show of hands and passed by a majority. Lawmaker Mohamed al-Karbouli said the report was now due to go to the public prosecutor and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who has the right to refer officers for court martial.
    The panel's report, the most drastic step yet taken by Baghdad to provide accountability for the loss of nearly a third of the country's territory to the Islamist insurgency, alleges that Maliki had an inaccurate picture of the threat to the northern city because he chose commanders who engaged in corruption and failed to hold them accountable.
    There has been no official accounting for how Mosul was lost, or of who gave the order to abandon the fight. Maliki has accused unnamed countries, commanders and rival politicians of plotting the city's fall.
    Islamic State's seizure of Mosul, Iraq's second city, in June 2014 as it swept across the Syrian border and declared a modern "caliphate", exposed the failings of a governing system defined largely by ethno-sectarian party patronage.
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