[SunkenCiv]

New defence Minister Khaled al-Obeidi (left) and new interior Minister Mohammed al-Ghabban

[JohnBrowdie]

give them the pieces.

[Lorianne]

Tribal warfare, internecine intrigues and age old grievances .... just what we need to get involved in and get killed over.

[cripplecreek]

“The Kurdistan Region should hand back criminals who have been charged with terrorist acts to the federal government, so they can face justice,” said Al-Obeidi.

Oh I'm guessing they'll face justice at the hands of the Kurds.

[Paladin2]

The Kurds need to get some serious backing and tell Iraq to pound sand or they will help IS in overrunning Bagdad.

[Redcitizen]

What the Iraqi army gonna do? Attack the Kurds as effectively as they attacked the ISIL without US help?

[TigersEye]

The Kurds should load all of the dead terrorists they’ve got into trucks and say “Here you are. Enjoy!”

[piasa]

The scientist in whose rose garden was found a prototype centrifuge for Irsaq’s nuclear program along with a bunch of papers and plans was also named Obeidi.

[DoughtyOne]

With the capital of Iraq teetering, this is what they worry about.

Have they been talking to Obola and his crew again?

[The_Media_never_lie]

Let Allah sort ‘em.

[Trapper6012]

I know a large family from the al-Obeidi family from my years in Irag. The ones I worked with were very loyal and supportive. Five older brothers were officers in the Republican Guard, who hated Saddam, but were a long time military family. I drank some whiskey, smoked argeileh and generally socialized with them after they relocated to Egypt as the shia militia were trying to kill them and family members for working with us. The Obeidi are over 1 million, a few are Shia. I talked to one in the US yesterday, who is a US citizen. His opinion is this guy is pretty weak, which explains his seemingly shia led government party line demand.

[RginTN]

Huh, with the IS waging war on Iraq the Iraqis are focused on the Kurds.

[Will88]

Looks like this idiot Defense Minister might first get his Iraqi army to actually fight ISIS before they start occupying parts of Baghdad, rather than harassing the Kurds, who have proven to be the only group in former Iraq with the guts to actually fight and often defeat the ISIS invaders and occupiers.

[Trapper6012]

I suppose I should explain a bit that his demand seems to infer Iraqi Sunni whom members of the Shia led government assess to be terrorist. Not the few ISIS who have been captured, but people such as Leader of the Sunni Tribes of Anbar Province Ali Hatam al-Suleiman, who fled to avoid arrest

[JimSEA]

The Shitte see this as an opportunity to rid themselves of Kurds, failing to understand the existential threat of ISIS.