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New23 Aug, 22:52 BAGHDAD

Assessed: Nujaba channel airs vow to close KDP projects in Iraq

WHAT HAPPENED

Across a sixteen-minute run on the evening of 23 August, Al-Nujaba TV (Nujaba — official) published four segments from its programme with a speaker it identifies as Abu Iraq. The operative one quotes him addressing Masoud Barzani directly with "we stop and close the Democratic Party's projects", conditioned on respect for Iraqi law and the constitution; the surrounding segments have him saying PMF weapons protected all of Iraq in reply to the president's statement, alleging ISIS convicts who finished their sentences in Kurdistan were not handed to Baghdad, and criticising Erbil's residency procedures. The rung is credible: the wording is the channel's own published caption on its official outlet, carried four times in one sitting; what is missing is any second carrier or any named project, so the underlying capacity to act on it is not established.

WHO CARRIED IT · EVERY MESSAGE, LINKED
  1. Al-Nujaba TVNujaba — official23 Aug, 22:36

    The state is one and the law is one. Abu Iraq responds to the president's statement: the PMF's weapons protected all of Iraq.

    الدولة واحدة والقانون واحد.. أبو عراق يرد على تصريح رئيس الجمهورية: سـ ـلاح الحشـ ـد حمى العراق كله

  2. Al-Nujaba TVNujaba — official23 Aug, 22:43

    We stop and close the Democratic Party's projects. Abu Iraq to Masoud Barzani: respect Iraqi law and the Iraqi constitution.

    نوقف ونغلق مشاريع الديمقراطي.. أبو عراق لمسعود بارزاني: احترموا القانون والدستور العراقي

  3. Al-Nujaba TVNujaba — official23 Aug, 22:48

    Erbil has turned into an opposition. Abu Iraq criticises the region's procedures: you demand residency of me, then accuse me of sectarianism.

    اربيل تحولت إلى معارض.. أبو عراق ينتقد إجراءات الاقليم: تطالبني بالإقامة ثم تتهمني بالطـ ـائفية

  4. Al-Nujaba TVNujaba — official23 Aug, 22:52

    If my words are wrong, hold me to account. Abu Iraq: ISIS members who completed their sentences in Kurdistan were not handed over to Baghdad.

    إذا كلامي خطأ حاسبوني.. أبو عراق: دواعش أنهوا أحكامهم في كردستان ولم يسلموا إلى بغداد

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

Nujaba's declared direction of travel in this window runs at a named Iraqi party's projects rather than at the United States or Israel, and it does so on the movement's own television channel rather than through a front brand.

THE MESSAGE IN FULL · THE DESK’S OWN COPY
View the original message (Arabic)"إذا كلامي خطأ حاسبوني".. أبو عراق: دواعش أنهوا أحكامهم في كردستان ولم يسلموا إلى بغداد #بصراحة_مع_عذراء #قناة_NTV_عراق
Kept as posted — a channel can delete a message; this copy stays.