The Militia Digest
Two guests on Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official) demanded on September 5 that PMF chairman Faleh al-Fayyad appear before parliament over the Saudi strike on PMF headquarters discussed since August 29. Political analyst Muhammad al-Zaydawi alleged that the prime minister warned PMF leaders and faulted Fayyad for not evacuating the site. Security expert Wathiq al-Jabri instead said notification was delayed and could have been a deliberate security failure. One account alleges advance notice to the leadership; the other alleges delay in notifying Fayyad. Pressure carried by Al-Ahad had already moved from a proposed summons to a Sadiqoun MP’s removal warning. Fayyad has not answered the accusations.
Reports on September 6 diverged over whether Coordination Framework talks with armed factions had stalled. Alsumaria called the negotiations a dead end, while Al-Quds Al-Arabi referred to a Framework committee negotiating over restricting weapons. Neither account identified a faction or disputed term. Iranian outlets Mehr News and Al-Alam attributed identical wording to an unidentified Iraqi parliamentarian that U.S. forces would lose legitimacy after September 30 and factions would have the right to respond. That formulation remained the parliamentarian’s, unlike Akram al-Kaabi’s (Nujaba — secretary-general) earlier threat against U.S. soldiers remaining after that date. Al-Ghadeer TV (Badr Organization — official) carried a Parliamentary Security Committee statement that martyrs’ blood was sufficient to end the U.S. presence, without a timetable or operation. Altra Iraq separately attributed to Nujaba a defence of its weapons as protecting Iraq’s political system, but named no speaker.
Al-Ghadeer TV, Unit 10,000 (KH — affiliated) and Sabereen News (KH — affiliated) reported that Mustafa Sabah’s body had been found in Anbar after he was missing for 12 years. All three described him as a martyr. Unit 10,000 then carried his funeral in Aziziyah, Wasit. The captions gave no unit, date of death or circumstances. Sabereen added that "the masterminds of terrorism continue mobilizing media mercenaries to undermine the Popular Mobilization Forces and the resistance". Separately, Unit 10,000 and Al-Nujaba TV (Nujaba — official) reported that the body of Iraqi Army Brigadier General Hilal Matar Saleh al-Ezzi had also been recovered after 12 years. Both said he was killed on Anbar Island, though Unit placed his death during fighting against ISIS remnants and Al-Nujaba referred more generally to liberation battles.
Al-Ghadeer TV, Al-Ittijah TV (KH — official) and Al-Nujaba TV reported that dozens of oil-institute graduates demonstrated outside the Oil Ministry in Baghdad demanding appointments. Their images showed employment banners, although the location was not settled by the images. The reports extended the appointment-focused protest coverage from Maysan a day earlier. Separately, Al-Ghadeer and Al-Ittijah reported that Al-Tayef Islamic Bank depositors demanded their money back. Al-Ghadeer cited Central Bank oversight for alleged violations, while Al-Ittijah said customers’ cards had stopped working and carried demands for government intervention.
Sabereen News and Al-Kornet al-Kata'ibi (KSS — affiliated) each reported on September 5 that missiles had been launched toward the Strait of Hormuz. The one-line posts appeared within two minutes and gave no further operational details. Al-Ahad TV separately carried an Iranian Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters statement saying strikes on U.S. ships would become harsher if Washington continued what it called hostile actions and a blockade.