Sayyid Ammar Al-Hakim: the participation of Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in liberating Mosul city is a necessity imposed by the battle facts 

  With the escalation of security achievements and the liberation of a most areas and cities that were controlled By ISIS since June 14, 2014, the most recent but not last achievement was liberating Ramadi city that was preceded by liberating Tikrit and its outskirts up to Baiji area, yet the case of liberating Mosul city is on the top priorities of current anticipated security issues that coexists with Falluja city liberation battle, here the PMF’s role participating in liberating Mosul city is obviously manifesting bearing in mind the numbers and tactics needed for this battle, Chairman Supreme Islamic Council in Iraq (SICI) Sayyid Ammar Al-Hakim affirmed the necessity of PMF’s participating in liberating Mosul, indicating that this participation is a national necessity imposed by the battle facts, the required quick reaction and to preserve the city from total destruction, stressing on encountering ISIS by utilizing unfamiliar tactics similar to Baiji which resulted in liberation from ISIS with in few days.

  In the Dewan of Baghdad political elites at his eminence Baghdad office on January 30, 2016, Saturday, Sayyid Ammar AL-Hakim’s opinion is that Mosul is a city of variety and if any side is excluded from participating in its liberation will flow in ISIS benefit and goals attempting to tear social structure, pointing out that liberating Mosul requires a significant number of forces in order to guarantee a decisive, fatal and quick battle, the numbers of forces will not be gathered unless everyone participates, his eminence called the Council of Representatives of Iraq to discuss the news that states summoning American Forces consultants to work with Iraqi Forces or American forces that will be staged between Mosul and Syria, explaiing that such matters 

  Should be publically discussed and not to be concealed to the people and their representatives for they have the final word in allowing the interference or disagree with it, pointing that Al-Muqdadiyah incidents underwent exaggeration although it was condemned by everyone and on the top of everyone was the religious authority therefore there are no place for justifying mistakes.

  His eminence diagnosed the problem in management by stating:” We have no problems in funds comparing to the problems in managing the funds, and we have no problems in with water comparing to the problems in managing the water and so on”, referring to the previous years were mistakes were made because political powers lack experience, afterthought , but the important thing is how to resolute and decrease mistakes, stressing on the importance of searching the quality of selection taking into consideration maintaining the national balance that makes everyone secured, affirming on the importance of civil peace as vital approach in the political resolution, reminding that ISIS is not a just criminal gang but a kind of political stress on the unity of Iraq and civil peace.

  Chairman SICI replied to the attendees’ queries and reiterated that all Iraqis are on the same boat and all should be aware of this destiny, sinking of the boat means sinking of everyone yet deliverance will take everyone to safety, calling all Iraqi parties to sit around on basis of united Iraq, interest of Iraq and stopping foreign interference, affirming to the importance of legislative reformation in order to dispose manacled laws as soon as possible plus distributing tasks and determining roles. 

  In respect of agriculture, his eminence stated:” challenges and opportunities are directly proportioned” the bigger the challenge is the bigger is the opportunity, indicating that Iraq is before an opportunity to reclaim his agricultural, industrial and tourism place and shake out being a rentier state.

  Politically, Sayyid Ammar Al-Hakim warned of political projections exchanging accusations among each other, explained that encountering corruption always collides with corruptors’ exploitation of law to justify their actions and this does not prevent increasing efforts and setting legislations that empower the Iraqi state to strike leaders of corruptions and recover the funds, while expressing concerns of corruption reaching the selling of state properties, calling to (if selling is to be conducted) that the sells would be through specialized committees and the entire process should be transparent to everyone and first of all the citizen. 

  Mosul dam and aroused concerns, his eminence addressed that remediation the am with concreting had stopped for a long time which resulted in damages, and the government and with the president personal attention are putting the case on the top of their priorities, reassuring that statements about the dam are much exaggerated regardless of whom gave the statements, his eminence stated:” the government is discussing the Dam status with an Italian and German companies in order to set the required rededications.”