Posted on 10/11/2017 5:28:42 PM PDT by marshmallow
When the extremist group known as the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) was expelled from the northern city of Mosul, locals there were happy. But now, not so much, says Qassim Badran, a former employee of the local power department. The government stopped paying his salary back in 2014 when the Islamic State, or IS, group, took over the city. Even though the federal government said they would start paying civil servants again—and there are many of these because the Iraqi government is the country’s major employer—no money has arrived for Badran and he’s been busy setting up a small store in his garden, so he can actually make some kind of living.
The situation in Mosul today is just too chaotic, Badran told NIQASH. “In the past two months, I have had five different armed groups knock on my front door,” he complains. “I don’t know to which parties they belong or who they’re allied with. But they all asked to see my family’s IDs anyway. In a nearby street, a person was killed but nobody knows why!”
There are dozens of armed militias in Mosul and each has its own uniform, confirms Noura al-Bijari, a MP for the Ninawa province, of which Mosul is the capital. Each one controls a different part of the city.
Al-Bijari is one of a number of Sunni Muslim politicians in Baghdad who have been complaining that the Iraqi government is not doing enough to help those locals who have returned home to cities formerly occupied by the IS group.
“They agreed to pay salaries to the provinces after liberation and when the cities are inhabited by their people again, but it has not happened,” al-Bijari says, noting that many of the houses in Mosul have been destroyed and that returning locals have.......
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Shiites hate Sunnis. Mosul is Sunni. We assisted the Shiites and Iranians to retake Mosul. Now Shiites control Mosul and will punish and kill Sunnis like they have always done. We should never have been there. We need to leave.
Sounds like ATF/IRS.
No it isn't.
Mosul is absolutely Sunni. Has been since the 600s. In fact, the only shiites there are occupational forces.
Wrong.
Mosul has been a multi ethnic and multi religious city since ancient times..well before to the rise of Mohammed. This tradition has continued right up to the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.
Christians were in Mosul since the 1st century...a Patriarch was named there in the 1500s, a Dominican order was started there in eighteenth century.
Almost ten thousand Jews were recorded as living in Mosul by the Exilarch in the twelfth century.
If Mosul is considered a Sunni city today then it is only due to a shameful failure of Western foreign policy over the past two decades.
Mosul is THE sunni stronghold in IRAQ.
To suggest you just aren’t very bright would be an understatement.
Wear that fools crown lightly troll-boy.
Did you say “right” or bright”GLja
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