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New21 Aug, 02:11 BAGHDAD

AAH channel builds Jarf al-Nasr case: al-Khanjar barred, returns blocked

WHAT HAPPENED

Across roughly an hour on the evening of 20 August, Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official) ran a linked series of #الحد_الفاصل posts on Jarf al-Nasr: the Babil governor saying everyone can enter Jarf al-Nasr "except Khamis al-Khanjar"; Turki saying the area is not Sunni and that the people of al-Saeedat are still displaced, with the on-screen banner adding "we prevented the return of the people of al-Saeedat because of the security danger"; Turki saying security vetting recorded 5,000 terrorists from Jarf al-Nasr; and a further banner citing some 85 houses in an urban-planning scheme and a call for "real government care to clean Jarf al-Nasr". All of it comes from one channel and one studio segment; nothing in the collected material corroborates the figures or identifies who imposes the entry rule.

WHO CARRIED IT · EVERY MESSAGE, LINKED
  1. Al-Ahad TVAAH — official21 Aug, 02:01

    Turki: security vetting and investigation recorded 5,000 terrorists from Jarf al-Nasr.

    تركي: التدقيق والتحقيق الأمني سجل 5 آلاف إرهابي من جرف النصر

  2. Al-Ahad TVAAH — official21 Aug, 02:07

    Turki: Jarf al-Nasr is not Sunni and the people of al-Saeedat are still displaced / we prevented the return of the people of al-Saeedat because of the security danger.

    تركي: جرف النصر ليست سنية وأهالي منطقة السعيدات ما زالوا مهجرين / منعنا عودة اهالي منطقة السعيدات بسبب الخطر الامني

  3. Al-Ahad TVAAH — official21 Aug, 02:11

    "Except for Khamis al-Khanjar": the governor of Babil says everyone can enter Jarf al-Nasr.

    "باستثناء خميس الخنجر".. محافظ بابل: بإمكان الجميع الدخول إلى جرف النصر

In posting order. Translated by the desk, published as evidence — not endorsement.
WHY IT MATTERS

Jarf al-Nasr is the standing test case for whether displaced Sunni populations return to militia-held ground, and the faction's own channel is here supplying both the justification for keeping them out and the identity of the politician kept out with them.

THE MESSAGE IN FULL · THE DESK’S OWN COPY
View the original message (Arabic)"باستثناء خميس الخنجر".. محافظ بابل: بإمكان الجميع الدخول إلى جرف النصر #الحد_الفاصل bio.link/alahadtv
Kept as posted — a channel can delete a message; this copy stays.