At 00:13 on 14 August, Al-Ahad TV carried political analyst Imad al-Khuzaie saying the factions refusing to confine weapons to the state must be handled wisely, that security agencies' harsh treatment of protesting Popular Mobilization Forces wounded in Baghdad was regrettable, that the resistance factions' sacrifices must be valued, and that many channels of communication exist between the state and those factions with results appearing soon. The segment ran under an on-screen banner about calls for national dialogue preparatory to confining weapons to the state. Al-Khuzaie is described in the post as a political analyst; the registry does not list him as an AAH official, so this is what AAH's channel chose to air rather than an AAH statement.
- Al-Ahad TVAAH — official14 Aug, 03:13
“We need to deal wisely with the factions refusing to confine weapons to the state … we regret the security agencies' somewhat harsh treatment of the Popular Mobilization Forces wounded protesting in Baghdad … there are many channels of communication between the state and the factions refusing to confine weapons, and their results will appear soon.”
نحتاج الى التعامل بحكمة مع الفصائل الرافضة لحصر السلاح بيد الدولة … يؤسفنا تعامل الأجهزة الأمنية بشيء من القسوة مع جرحى الحشد الشعبي المتظاهرين في بغداد … توجد وسائل تواصل كثيرة بين الدولة والفصائل الرافضة لحصر السلاح ستظهر نتائجها قريبا
The divergence marks two different routes to the same objective on weapons control — negotiated understandings versus published preconditions — and gives the government two distinct interlocutor styles to answer.