Discussion on ISIS Conspiracy Theories

Do you consider it a conspiracy? Yes, a planned conspiracy. ISIS. ISIS.

نعم، مؤامرة مدبرة

داعش

ISIS, do you consider it a conspiracy? Yes.

ISIS, do you consider it a conspiracy? Yes.

نعم

A planned conspiracy, and one of its fronts was the sit- ins that

هو الاعتصامات اللي صارت بالموصل والاعتصامات اللي بالأنبار

It was a planned scheme agreed upon

بقايا البعثيين والنقشبندية وما سموا أنفسهم

ثوار العشائر والمجلس العسكري و

and ISIS was also with them; they met in Turkey.

Then, the operations room was in Erbil.

And I said there

فرد علي رئيس الإقليم قال هؤلاء مظلومين وإحنا آويناهم

They were meeting and planning, and the plan was based on the Kurds— meaning

والخطة كانت قائمة على أن الأكراد، الإقليم يعني

the Region, not all Kurds, so as not to

wrong them— issuing an order to the Kurds in these divisions to withdraw.

And indeed, an order was issued to them, and the text of it exists.

They withdrew; they did not fight at all,

under the pretext that ISIS came to fight the Shiites and al- Maliki, not the Kurds.

The Sunnis as well, due to the infiltration of the Ba'ath Party,

and the governorate and local government— the governor and another group with him.

They also received orders and withdrew.

So, 80% to 85% of the army present withdrew at once.

The police did not intervene at all.

Because they were loyal to the governor,

And the commander of the Third Division withdrew and fled.

And the commander of the Fourth Division fled.

And other remaining officers below the division command level withdrew.

But Mr. Barzani says that he had sent messages to you before the ISIS

وجه رسائل لكم قبل هجوم داعش على الموصل

attack on Mosul, and said he informed you of…

or of the possibility of an attack on Mosul by ISIS. Is this true?

This is an attempt to cover up the order he issued to

حتى يغطي على الأمر الذي أصدره بالانسحاب وعدم مقاتلة داعش

وعلى القيادات الكردية التي تخاذلت وهربت

He never contacted me because there is no communication between us.

When I denied that he contacted me,

Neither the US Ambassador nor Mr. Ammar al- Hakim contacted me.

Now, if… he just called… let me finish.

This is all an attempt to confuse the issues.

I asked him to help us in the attack by deploying the Peshmerga forces.

بأن يحرك قوات بيشمركة

The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior contacted the

Minister of Peshmerga and the Regional Minister of Interior.

He told him he needed to get Masoud Barzani's approval, and since it was night,

In the morning, he said," We can't because we have issues with the central

So he didn't inform me of any plan, nor did he show any willingness to participate.

ولا أبدى استعداد للمشاركة

In fact, we asked him to participate, and he refused,

and he didn't tell me about anything that was going on.

As for Mosul, this wasn't the first time Mosul fell.

It fell during Bremer's time, and all the police surrendered.

وسلموا الشرطة كلهم

Mosul had already fallen some time ago under the local government.

Al- Qaeda and the gangs used to meet in the governor's office, and the governor

himself used his cars to deliver food to the sit- in protesters,

while ISIS and al- Qaeda were

من كل الشركات والمحلات وبعلم المحافظ

When we hit them, they would make a huge fuss, claiming that a Shia army

أن جيش شيعي إجا ضرب السنة

and they launched a fierce campaign against the army,

destroying the army's prestige in Mosul, claiming it was a Majusi army.

Safavid army, Shia army, Maliki army So the province, for a long time,

فالمحافظة من زمان

and I went there

because the local government was complicit with them,

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