Special forces block neighborhoods, bridges are locked: Prime Minister Maliki has positioned security forces at strategic points in Baghdad. He refuses to relinquish power, and want to complain against President Masum.
Iraq Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad upgraded to: bridges were closed off and access roads, blocked the Green Zone government and diplomatic district of the city with tanks. Reported the “Washington Post”, citing Iraqi TV reports. Security forces have also surrounded the presidential palace. Pro-Maliki militias would increase their patrols in the capital. The reportedly also from police circles.
In a televised speech late Sunday evening, the Shiite prime minister had shown unyielding. On the night of Monday (local time) Maliki reiterated that he would remain in office. The Minister Fouad Masum he will sue for infringement of the Constitution, because the latter had not appointed him head of government.
According to the “Washington Post” it is the duty of the President to consult the largest political bloc in Parliament to provide its candidate for the position available. The constitutional deadline for it expired on the night of Friday. “This act constitutes a coup against the constitution,” the newspaper quoted Maliki. The Shia had won in April with his party’s parliamentary election, but does not have a sufficient majority to form a government. Critics call for his resignation: Maliki is accused to have the Sunnis in Iraq systematically disadvantaged and excluded.
Iraq Fight against “Islamic State”:New U.S. air strikes
The United States moved further from Maliki on Sunday turned off and clear behind the head of state Masum. At the same time Washington came again to the formation of a government in Baghdad, which represents all religious and social groups. “We reject any effort to achieve results through blackmail or manipulation,” it said in the statement of Deputy Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marie Harf.
Supported by other U.S. air attacks succeeded the Kurdish security forces in the north, the terrorist militia “Islamic State” (IS) consists of two major border cities distribute. The United States had flown five air attacks against IS again on Sunday, the U.S. Central Command in Florida, according to “in defense of Kurdish forces in Erbil”.
U.S. President Barack Obama had approved the operations to protect U.S. diplomats and other Americans and displaced religious minorities in the country. But he also made clear that the crisis in Iraq is no military solution to. US-supplied aircraft also escaped in the Sinjar Mountains people with food and water.
Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier stood behind Obama. “Given the humanitarian disaster, we support targeted intervention of the United States,” the SPD politician of the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” said. The actions of the jihadists “beyond anything we have experienced before in horror scenarios in the region.” Germany increasing its emergency aid from the previous 2.9 million euros to 1.5 million euros.
The situation in Iraq is dramatic for the people on the run: Yezidi families were still trapped at temperatures of over 40 degrees Celsius in the Sinjar Mountains on Sunday. The UN mission in Iraq estimated their number at 15,000 to 55,000. The Yezidi members of parliament in Baghdad Vian Dachil warned, according to the Kurdish news portal Basnews before a mass extinction, the refugees should not be placed on security within two days. Your data after already 50 children died.
According to information from the news portal Rudaw thousands arrived at the weekend over a ten-kilometer protection corridor in Syria, the Kurdish autonomous region – activists went by about 10,000 from. According to UN data fled since Monday of last week in areas north and west of the city of Mosul, where many representatives of religious minorities, some 200,000 people before the advancing IS-fighters.
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