AAH's channel presses the case to remove Falih al-Fayyadh

On the evening of 17 August, Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official) ran two lines of attack on the PMF Commission's chairman. Ahmed al-Khazali of the Sadiqoun bloc, a member of the security and defence committee, said the questioning of Falih al-Fayyadh and the security leadership will be held Thursday in the committee, that today's postponement may have been administrative and logistical, that pressures exist to prevent the questioning and will be ignored, that parliament treats al-Fayyadh as a military figure, and that the prime minister will send the PMF law to parliament this week — with the clause on al-Fayyadh's age having been the obstacle to legislating it. Twice within the same hour the channel also carried Hashem al-Husseini of the Political Development Academy saying al-Fayyadh's continuation atop the PMF is a clear legal violation and his dismissal part of modernising the security institution. No confirmation from parliament and no response from al-Fayyadh's office appears in the collected material.