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Iraq Monitorعين على العراقPrimary-source intelligence · updated 15:43 Baghdad
Internal Iraqi affairs28 Jul, 18:55 BAGHDAD

Badr channel announces utility purge and Staff College appointment

Watan TV, a Badr Organization-affiliated channel, announced within thirty-six minutes both the removal of the director general of the Middle Electricity Distribution Company with eight others and the appointment of Lt. Gen. Hamid al-Zuhairi as commandant of the Staff College

WHAT HAPPENED

Watan TV, affiliated with the Badr Organization, posted at 15:19 on 28 July 2026 that "الفريق الركن حامد الزهيري" (Lieutenant General Hamid al-Zuhairi) had been assigned as "عميداً لكلية الأركان" (commandant of the Staff College), and at 15:55 the same day that there was "عزل بحق علاء سمير مدير عام شركة توزيع كهرباء الوسط و8 آخرين" (a removal against Alaa Samir, director general of the Middle Electricity Distribution Company, and eight others). Both posts carried the channel's own #قناة_وطن_WTV branding and news-graphic template with a portrait; visual review of both images confirms the Arabic overlay text but cannot independently confirm the identity of either individual. No other tracked actor's channel was observed carrying either announcement in the collected window, and no external media reporting on either personnel action was supplied.

WHY IT MATTERS

Control of the Staff College shapes which officers are formed and promoted over a decade, and control of a regional electricity distribution company controls contracts, hiring and collections — both are accumulations of power that occur entirely between attacks and leave no kinetic trace.

EVIDENCE · INTERCEPTED CHANNEL MESSAGE
View the original message (Arabic)عزل بحق علاء سمير مدير عام شركة توزيع كهرباء الوسط و8 آخرين #قناة_وطن_WTV
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