Across roughly fifteen minutes on 22 August, Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official) ran a sequence of captions attributed to Adnan Faihan on the weapons file: no concession on placing weapons in the hands of the state; "organizing weapons under the command of the commander-in-chief" as the correct name for the process; and Nouri al-Maliki, Hadi al-Amiri and Mohammed Shia al-Sudani tasked with a mechanism to organize the weapons and keep them with the Popular Mobilization Forces. The same run included his account that the prime minister told him the factions defended Iraq and should be cared for rather than fought, and his expectation that the PMF law will reach parliament from the government within two weeks. The rung is credible: the captions are a single channel's own output on its own principal's line, consistent across five posts and uncontradicted in the window, but no second line reports the tasking.
- Al-Ahad TVAAH — official owned media22 Aug, 14:45
“Faihan: We expect the Popular Mobilization law to arrive from the government within two weeks.”
فيحان: نرجح وصول قانون الحشد من الحكومة خلال أسبوعين
- Al-Ahad TVAAH — official owned media22 Aug, 14:50
“Organizing weapons under the command of the commander-in-chief of the armed forces is the more accurate name for this process.”
تنظيم الأسلحة تحت أمرة القائد العام للقوات المسلحة هو الاسم الأصح لهذه العملية
- Al-Ahad TVAAH — official owned media22 Aug, 14:57
“The prime minister told me the factions defended Iraq and that it is important to care for them, not fight them.”
رئيس الوزراء قال لي إن الفصائل دافعت عن العراق ومن المهم الاهتمام بهم لا مقاتلتهم
- Al-Ahad TVAAH — official owned media22 Aug, 14:58
“Al-Maliki, al-Amiri and al-Sudani were tasked with a mechanism to organize weapons and keep them with the Popular Mobilization Forces.”
تكليف المالكي والعامري والسوداني بآلية تنظيم السلاح وحفظه لدى الحشد
- Al-Ahad TVAAH — official owned media22 Aug, 14:59
“There is no concession on the question of confining weapons to the hands of the state.”
لا تنازل عن قضية حصر السلاح بيد الدولة
The named tasking of al-Maliki, al-Amiri and al-Sudani converts an abstract disarmament argument into a specific mechanism with specific custodians, and the two-week legislative estimate attaches a date to it.