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Internal Iraqi affairsNew05 Aug, 22:23 BAGHDAD

KH channels push Saudi-intelligence allegation over Anbar in identical wording

Unit 10,000 and Sabereen News (both KH — affiliated) carried in identical wording politician Aras Habib's allegation that Saudi intelligence offered to facilitate 5,000 fighters entering Anbar

WHAT HAPPENED

On the evening of 5 August 2026, Sabereen News (KH — affiliated) and then Unit 10,000 (KH — affiliated) posted word-for-word the same claim attributed to politician Aras Habib: that Saudi intelligence offered former Defence Minister Saadoun al-Dulaimi facilitation for the entry of five thousand "terrorists" into Anbar, and that when he refused his family was expelled from their lands. Sabereen posted first, Unit 10,000 roughly five minutes later with a coloured marker added. The allegation is carried as Habib's words, not as a KH statement, and no outside coverage of it is in hand.

WHO CARRIED IT
  1. Sabereen NewsKH — affiliated05 Aug, 22:18

    Politician Aras Habib: Saudi intelligence offered former Defence Minister Saadoun al-Dulaimi facilitation for the entry of five thousand terrorists into Anbar, and when he refused they expelled his family from their lands.

    السياسي آراس حبيب: الاستخبارات السعودية عرضت على وزير الدفاع الأسبق سعدون الدليمي تسهيل دخول خمسة آلاف إرهابي إلى الأنبار وعندما رفض طردوا عائلته من أراضيهم

  2. Unit 10,000KH — affiliated05 Aug, 22:23

    🟡Politician Aras Habib — Saudi intelligence offered former Defence Minister Saadoun al-Dulaimi facilitation for the entry of five thousand terrorists into Anbar, and when he refused they expelled his family from their lands.

    🟡السياسي آراس حبيب — الاستخبارات السعودية عرضت على وزير الدفاع الأسبق سعدون الدليمي تسهيل دخول خمسة آلاف إرهابي إلى الأنبار وعندما رفض طردوا عائلته من أراضيهم

Their words, in the order they posted. Translation by the desk; published as evidence, not endorsement.
WATCH

Watch: outside coverage of the Habib allegation, a Saudi or Iraqi Defence Ministry denial, republication by a non-KH network, or KH's own channels adopting the claim in their own voice rather than as a quote — any of these moves this file.

EVIDENCE · INTERCEPTED CHANNEL MESSAGE
View the original message (Arabic)🟡السياسي آراس حبيب الاستخبارات السعودية عرضت على وزير الدفاع الأسبق سعدون الدليمي تسهيل دخول خمسة آلاف إرهابي إلى الأنبار وعندما رفض طردوا عائلته من أراضيهم
Published as evidence, not endorsement