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ISHM: December 3 - December 10, 2020
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U.S. Diplomatic Drawdown “Temporary”; Iraqis Remember Nasiriyah’s Fallen Protesters; Militias Support Sadr’s Call To Fight “Deviant” Youths; Billions Unaccounted For In Electricity Contracts; Anti-Halbousi Group Crumbles – On December 3, the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq called the planned reduction of U.S. diplomatic personnel “temporary.” On December 4, thousands of Iraqis took to the streets to commemorate protesters killed by followers of Moqtada al-Sadr in Nasiriyah a week earlier. On December 5, Iran’s ambassador to Iraq said that resistance factions” will “definitely respond,” should the U.S. attack them. On December 7, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis will visit Iraq in March. On December 7, Kataib Hezbollah and Asaib Ahl al-Haq expressed their support for remarks by Sadr calling on Iraqis to “restore the Shia home” and “confront deviancy.” On December 7, a parliamentary committee
policy advisers that were named to the trump campaign, the one person who did have some stature and a track record was michael flynn. anita, i wonder if you could describe how much consternation there is inside the foreign policy world as to what happened to this guy? he was a high flying, fast-rising star within the defense intelligence establishment when he was named to dia, turfed out in 2014. is there any sense at what went wrong from there? that s a great question, joy. you have to savor the irony of a guy who at the republican national convention was leading chance of lock her up is now in serious danger of getting himself locked up. this is a tragedy. i ve known mike flynn back to the time when he was the chief intelligence officer in afghanistan and before that the joint operations command. he had a terrific reputation as a very good tactical intelligence officer. he was very well respected which
ground. you ve got the kurdish peshmerga on one hand and on the other hand, iraqi forces and that includes those paramilitary forces that are backed by iran and also iraqi forces. especially in disputed areas like the oil rich city of kirkuk and we have seen some really conflicting reports over the last several days, natalie, coming from the kurdistan regional government. on thursday into friday, late at night, they announced that they had received information that there was an attack that is going to take place by the iraqi forces on kirkuk to recapture the city that was denied by the iraqi government by the joint operations command of the iraqi military. we had these conflicting reports again, re-emerging last night, more reports coming from the krg of another attack, some sort of a deadline that was given to them by iraqi forces, but we have seen denials in the past. no matter what the situation is on the ground, natalie, this is a very dangerous situation and
about them and praying for them. secondly, i think he needs to he needs to go and thank the first responds. they ve been working around the clock, rescuing people, providing security and so an and so forth. so he needs to thank those folks. and i think he also needs to visit with the volunteers. i mean the volunteers that turned out to save these people and to help the citizens of houston is phenomenal. and that needs to go i think he ne hes to needs to go and spend time with the volunteers and the ngos that helped hand out the water and dry clothes and hand out supplies and handed out the supplies and that what is america is all about and get an in depth briefing at the joint operations command and i mean a detailed briefing on the entire rescue and relief operation. and where it stands.