AAH's own channel spent the afternoon building a case for removing the PMF chairman. Between 13:47 and 14:13, Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official) ran four segments in under half an hour on Falih al-Fayadh's failure to appear at a parliamentary questioning session, captioning it as an absence that "opens the file of responsibility"; a political science professor told the channel Fayadh can be removed under legal and constitutional procedures, and a legal expert said the rules apply regardless of position. A second run of four segments in 41 minutes went further, carrying on-screen text saying the head of the Popular Mobilization Authority refused to form a fact-finding committee and that warning of the Saudi-American strikes on PMF sites reached him three hours in advance without units being told to evacuate. Sadiqoun MP Rajaa al-Harbi said on the same channel that the prime minister had told MPs the attack was reported before it happened, that those who failed to pass the warning on will be held to account, and that Sadiqoun is moving to vote the PMF Authority law as fast as possible.
The removal argument comes entirely from guests and captions on AAH's screen — no named AAH office-holder has said it, the PMF has not responded, and the strike and the warning have gone unreported outside the militia channels. This advances yesterday evening's broadcast, in which a legal researcher on the same channel said Fayadh could face the military court over the summons.
The legislative demand widened past AAH. Al-Ahad TV carried Al-Asas Coalition leader Adnan al-Jabri adding his bloc's voice to Sadiqoun's push for a vote on the PMF service and retirement law, saying parliament needs accurate information on the attack on PMF headquarters and that those negligent in failing to report it must be held accountable; the same channel carried al-Salihi saying Sadiqoun's efforts had produced a date for sending the law forward. Minutes later First Deputy Speaker Adnan Fihhan, speaking at the eighth Baghdad Dialogue Conference, named the clause extending the PMF chairman's tenure as the single point of disagreement blocking the law and said the PMF contains electoral brigades and regiments in violation of the constitution. Press reports the same day put the stall down to the same dispute over the chairman's tenure.
On the weapons file, Kataib Hezbollah's channel answered the president's morning handover demand in terms AAH's did not use. Within twenty-five minutes, Al-Ittijah TV (KH — official) published Sabah al-Ardawi, head of the KH representation in Babil, saying the Islamic Resistance will not submit to a Zionist-American conspiracy to strip its "weapons of dignity", and al-Sarraj saying any decision to restrict weapons must cover the militias in the Kurdistan Region and not the resistance alone. The two factions' channels described the same policy in the same hour with opposite valences — AAH's as organisation under the commander-in-chief with no concession on state control, KH's as a conspiracy. Separately, Al-Kornet al-Kata'ibi (KSS — affiliated) relayed the head of the Hikma movement saying any surrender of weapons would be to the PMF Commission, adding no comment and naming no timetable or disarming party; the Iraqi president, for his part, said the Peshmerga are not part of the weapons process.
Jurf al-Nasr, which AAH framed this morning as a soft flank of Baghdad awaiting a decisive government decision, drew a deployment claim by evening. Unit 10,000 (KH — affiliated) posted imagery captioned as PMF al-Jazira Operations Command special forces deployed in the sector, under the heading "here are the heroes of the fray, the lions of battle"; the still shows two armed men in black tactical gear amid tall reeds, and neither the unit nor the place can be identified from the picture. The post names no operation, no adversary and no timetable, and the caption assigns the men to the PMF's al-Jazira command rather than to KH. Within the same hour the two networks ran community framing on the same town: Al-Ittijah TV reported Kirkuk clerics and sheikhs rejecting the return of "takfiri incubators", and Al-Ahad TV posted twice that Muthanna tribes reject "sectarian statements" about the town, neither naming who said what is being rebutted.
In the militia space, KSS's spokesman took a public quarrel to his own channel. iNEWS (KSS — affiliated) published a point-by-point message from Kadhim al-Fartousi to the writer Ghalib al-Shabandar, saying he had warned the Coordination Framework against confrontations in which only Shia blood falls, that its members understood him as intended, and that his elder brother and superior did not threaten the prime minister. The denial answers a circulating claim that nobody has quoted, and no second voice appears anywhere in the exchange. On the same evening AAH's channel published the phrase "Shia-Shia war" in order to deny it, headlining that state leaders are reassured there will be none after 30 September on the strength of a confirmation by first deputy speaker Adnan Faihan, without naming any party that was expected to fight.
Half an hour before that, the same channel carried Faihan naming Dr Laith al-Khazali as "our nominee" for deputy prime minister and telling objectors to stay away from political grandstanding, saying disagreements over completing the cabinet persist and that names for the vacant ministries will soon reach parliament. The post does not say which bloc "our" refers to, and no competing nomination has been put forward. Three factions' outlets also announced Shibl al-Zaidi's entry into the Coordination Framework leadership: Al-Ahad TV ran it first and alone said the signing was unanimous, with Al-Kornet al-Kata'ibi and Al-Ghadeer TV (Badr Organization — official) carrying a shorter identical wording about fifty minutes later that named him head of the Services Alliance and omitted the unanimity.
THINGS TO WATCHA named AAH office-holder, not a guest, calls for Fayadh's removalmedium likelihoodhigh impactThe removal argument has so far come only from outside guests and captions on Al-Ahad TV, with no AAH leader putting his name to it.
Fayadh or the PMF answers the three-hour-warning allegationmedium likelihoodhigh impactAAH's channel alleged the Authority chief had three hours' notice of the strikes and refused a fact-finding committee, and the PMF has said nothing.
Parliament schedules a vote on the PMF Authority lawmedium likelihoodhigh impactSadiqoun says its efforts produced a date for sending the law forward and Fihhan named the chairman's tenure clause as the only obstacle.
Kataib Hezbollah states a position in its secretary-general's name on arms restrictionmedium likelihoodhigh impactKH's refusal so far runs through a Babil representation head and a second figure on Al-Ittijah TV, not the leadership, against an end-September collection timeline.
Laith al-Khazali's nomination reaches parliament or is publicly contestedmedium likelihoodmedium impactFaihan named him as "our nominee" and warned objectors off, and said names for vacant ministries would soon go to parliament.