On 6 September, Al-Nujaba TV (Nujaba — official) captioned an unidentified talk-show guest as saying Barzani would use chemical weapons to strike the Harkiya if he possessed them. The conditional formulation did not claim that Barzani possessed chemical weapons or that an operation had occurred, and it was not presented as an official Nujaba statement.
- Al-Nujaba TVNujaba — official owned media07 Sept, 00:15
“Yazidi: Barzani, who does not know how to read the situation—if he had chemical weapons, he would use them to strike the Harkiya.”
يزيدي: بارزاني الذي لا يعرف قراءة المشهد لو يملك كيماوي لضرب الهركية
identification of the guest, official Nujaba adoption of the formulation, peer amplification or operational wording naming the Harkiya; any of these moves this file.