The Militia Digest
Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official) spent Friday escalating the campaign against PMF chairman Faleh al-Fayyad it began the night before, moving from calls to condemn him to calls to punish him in absentia. Around midday the channel aired political analyst Dawoud al-Halfi saying Fayyad's failure to appear before parliament amounts to "acceptance" of the strike on the PMF, and legal expert Dhafer al-Zarfi calling it "a condemnation and a dereliction"; two further segments a minute apart carried analyst Haider Arab saying Fayyad must attend his questioning over what the channel calls the Saudi-American aggression, and legal expert Mohammed al-Silawi saying an in-absentia questioning and referral to the courts would be constitutional. By evening the channel built four posts in seventeen minutes around analyst Hamed al-Kaabi, who called for sanctions against Fayyad up to dismissal and said political forces had worked to obstruct his attendance. Every position belongs to a guest: AAH has put no official name to the charge, and no Badr, KH or KSS channel has carried the Fayyad questioning at all.
Al-Nujaba TV (Nujaba — official) posted a single line at midday naming 30 September as the date for ending American dominance over Iraq's resources, under the hashtag "do not surrender, you will be safe." Within the same hours two other channels put the opposite meaning on the same date: Al-Ahad TV carried government spokesman Haidar al-Aboudi saying dialogue with the factions continues and there will be no confrontation, and Shabab al-Islam (Ashab al-Kahf — owned/non-official) carried Prime Minister Ali saying there will be no military confrontations after 30 September. Nujaba named no site, no target and no timetable, and no faction claimed responsibility for anything.
On the weapons file, Speaker of Parliament Heibat al-Halbousi set the end of next September as the start of restricting arms to the state, saying there is no confrontation with the factions and the decision is Iraqi and constitutional; Watan TV (Badr Organization — affiliated) carried the line in the evening, and it was reported outside the militia channels as well. An hour before that, the same channel had run a speaker identified only as al-Daami arguing the factions should instead hand their weapons to the Popular Mobilization to break the international argument against them. Two destinations for the same weapons sat on one Badr-affiliated channel within roughly an hour, and al-Daami's faction is not stated, so neither line reads as a Badr position. Prime Minister Zaidi, for his part, said Iraq's political forces are in complete agreement on disarmament.
KH's channel put a harder frame on the same file. Al-Ittijah TV (KH — official) ran a report by Mustafa al-Shammari alleging "governmental duality" — pressure on the resistance, silence toward other formations — and carried Muhammad al-Safi, head of KH's representation in Wasit, speaking of a "great danger" without saying what it is or which formations are being spared. Later in the afternoon the channel attributed to al-Safi the claim that the purpose of disarming the resistance is to complete the "Greater Israel" project. No other channel carried that line.
Jurf al-Nasr moved from competing captions to a shared refusal. Within eighteen minutes on Friday afternoon, Al-Ahad TV carried Diyala tribes announcing categorical rejection of any handover of the district and Baghdad sheikhs saying it "was not occupied; rather, it was a fortress of terrorism", while Al-Ittijah TV carried Kirkuk tribes saying the file was raised to weaken the resistance and the Popular Mobilization — the same position from two networks and three different tribal constituencies, not a shared text. Al-Ahad also carried political researcher Sajjad al-Qarishi defending returnee screening, saying everyone who has not returned is wanted in terrorism cases and that the ground is held by a mix of Popular Mobilization and Federal Police. In the same two segments he called conditions normal while saying terrorist movements are periodically detected nearby and ordnance clearance continues.
In parliament's diary, iNEWS (KSS — affiliated) reported that the Parliament presidency struck the first reading of the amendment to the Yazidi Survivors Law from Sunday's session agenda, giving no reason and naming nobody behind the removal; no other channel carried it. The same outlet published a report by Ibrahim al-Mahmoud saying the PMF law has entered its decisive phase with two weeks remaining before referral to parliament. That timeline is the outlet's own — it names no parliamentary source, and it sits against Rudaw's morning report that Zaidi would submit the law after a months-long standoff.