In the early hours of 21 August, Al-Janoub TV (Harakat al-Jihad wal-Bina — official) broadcast live from Baghdad showing vehicles cutting out one after another for want of petrol, with citizens pushing them, and just under an hour later carried a Basra item saying holders of 13,000 contract employment positions want their financial dues paid faster. Both posts are the channel's own reporting; neither names a responsible ministry, states a cause, or carries a demand issued in the movement's name. The rung holds at credible because the channel's own words are the whole of the claim and nothing in the collected material contradicts them, while no outside coverage of either the shortage or the payment dispute is in hand.
- Al-Janoub TVHarakat al-Jihad wal-Bina — official21 Aug, 05:05
“Live on air: cars are stopping one after another because of the gasoline shortage, and citizens are pushing them.”
مباشر على الهواء.. سيارات تنطفي وحدة ورا وحدة بسبب شحة البانزين والمواطنين يدفعوها
- Al-Janoub TVHarakat al-Jihad wal-Bina — official21 Aug, 06:00
“Holders of 13,000 employment positions are demanding that the payment of their financial entitlements be expedited.”
عقود 13 الف درجة وظيفية يطالبون بالإسراع في صرف مستحقاتهم المالية
a Harakat al-Jihad wal-Bina statement or an allied parliamentarian naming the oil or finance ministry over these items; a repeat live segment on the petrol queues; outside coverage of a Baghdad fuel shortage or of the 13,000 contract appointees; any call for protest tied to either grievance — any of these moves this file.