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Huffington Post
November 17, 2014
Former Iraqi interior minister Falah al-Naqib has estimated that IS makes up no more than 15 percent of the anti-government forces in Iraq. It is the tip of a much bigger spear, with a very different agenda. Many observers were stunned when IS took the northern city of Mosul, because they failed to recognize the existence ofÃâà...
NPR
June 19, 2014
Others outside his movement, including a former Iraqi interior minister, Falah al-Naqib, agree that ISIS is just the tip of the spear, perhaps no more than 15 percent of the anti-government forces. "Mainly it's the ex-military commanders, the army, the ex-army which have been dissolved," Naqib said.
The National
March 18, 2013
The calls for the protests to remain peaceful are still loud, and people fear sectarian splits and violence, and yet the problem is not likely to go away soon, said Falah Al Naqib, a Sunni lawmaker from Salahaddin province. "Most politicians, the Sunnis, want the demonstrations to remain peaceful, becauseÃâà...
truthout
August 11, 2010
An Iraqi-American named Falah al-Naqib was appointed to head the Interior Ministry of the interim government. He was the son of General Hassan al-Naqib, the former Chief of Staff of the Iraqi army who defected to the United States during the 1970s and was one of the founders of the Iraqi NationalÃâà...
New York Times
November 18, 2005
Falah al-Naqib, Mr. Jabr's predecessor as interior minister and a Sunni Arab, said the bunker was run by a group called the Special Interrogations Unit that answers directly to Mr. Jabr. The unit began using the building as a prison in June, said Mr. Naqib, who lives a block away from the bunker, which isÃâà...
China Daily
January 31, 2005
Officials expect preliminary results in six to seven days and final results in about 10 days. At least 27 people were killed in the Baghdad attacks, including suicide bombings carried out by a Syrian and a Chechen, interim Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib told Reuters. The deadliest attack was when a man withÃâà...
CNN
October 6, 2004
"Today is a great day for Samarra," said Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib on Saturday. "The Iraqi government was moving from a defensive position to an offensive position to regain control over all of Iraq." Further west, in Falluja, an airstrike by multinational forces hit a building just after midnight MondayÃâà...
BBC News
August 13, 2004
Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib told the news conference that no US soldiers would enter the Imam Ali shrine, one of the most important sites in Shia Islam. Only Iraqi police and national guardsmen would go in there, he stressed. He condemned the recent increase of violence across the country: "This is aÃâà...
Sydney Morning Herald
July 18, 2004
Iraq's Interior Minister, Falah al-Naqib, is said to have looked on and congratulated him when the job was done. Mr al-Naqib's office has issued a verbal denial. The names of three of the alleged victims have been obtained by the Herald. One of the witnesses claimed that before killing the prisoners DrÃâà...
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