The ambiguity of the unknown bars targeting sites in the Kurdistan region of Iraq increased after an unknown drop, on Wednesday, in the Makhmour region, southwest of Erbil.
Despite the conflict of information about the crash or its shooting down, the signs of the area turning into a line of contact between security formations began to increase recently.
The driving plane crashed into the town of Makhmour, according to local sources. He also mentioned that it was “a car bomb that has not exploded.”
What is the importance of drunken?
According to informed sources, they spoke to Asharq Al -Awsat, Makhmour, southwest of the city of Erbil, is a point of contact between three strategic locations where various security formations are stationed.
From the northwestern side of Genmour, where towns belonging to the Nineveh Governorate, according to the sources, brigades belonging to the “Popular Mobilization” forces and armed factions loyal to Iran are stationed, while the Iraqi army forces are stationed in the west of the military base in the town of Qayyara, and there is a presence of the army inside Makhmour itself.
On the east of Makhmour, forces belonging to the Kurdish Peshmerga are stationed in the region, in addition to its presence in the judiciary to coordinate with the Iraqi army.
The sources believe that «Makhmour region is one of the most important military coordination centers between the Iraqi army and the Peshmerga, since the battles against ISIS.
The sources indicate that “the last months have witnessed the increase in the activity of the marches, and it is believed that it is launched from the northwestern side of the Genkour.”
The sources believe that “the marches that do not carry out attacks (today’s march fell without an explosion) in this area, aimed at exploring the sites inside Makhmour; As some armed factions are interested in urgently monitoring any activity inside Makhmour.
For his part, Nechirvan Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, said on Wednesday that the attacks by drones targeting energy infrastructure in the region are “a threat and harm to the entire Iraq economy.”
Barzani’s comments came during his reception in Erbil Admiral Edward Algrin, the British Senior Defense Adviser for Middle East and North Africa.
The current July witnessed a series of attacks with unprecedented drones on oil sites and fields in various regions of the region, which amounted to more than 20 attacks, according to Kurdish statistics.
These attacks caused the stopping of operating companies and the loss of the region to about 200 thousand barrels of oil per day; Which obstructed his last agreement with Baghdad regarding its delivery of 230 thousand barrels per day in exchange for securing the salaries of employees in the region.
Despite the investigative committees formed by Baghdad, in cooperation with the Kurdistan region, to find out the parties involved in the attacks of the drones, these parties still communicate targeting the regions of the region.
Last Monday, Iraqi National Security Adviser, Qassem Al -Araji, visited Erbil, assigned to the Sudanese Prime Minister to investigate the file of the attacking aircraft attacks targeting the region, and talked about the announcement of the results of the investigation at a later time, and until “all evidence and facts about the attacks.”
However, a declaration of this kind has not seen the light yet, and the struggle of Mahmoud, the media advisor to the head of the Democratic Party, Masoud Barzani, returns that “the work of the committees will not stop, and their results will not be announced, and the attacks against the region will not stop.”
Mahmoud told Al -Sharq Al -Awsat that “one of the merits of coincidences (or from its bad) is that the arrival of the Al -Araji counselor to Erbil, who was sent by the factions to the territory and facilities of the region, was a very clear message to Baghdad and Erbil.”
Mahmoud believes that «everyone knows about the marches and the parties behind them; Baghdad knows, and Erbil also, the regional anti -terrorist agency and other intelligence agencies, and in cooperation with the international coalition forces, they know completely from where the marches came, where it started, who launched it, the type of ammunition, and the party that it manufactured.
Regarding the reasons for not announcing the security services of the region, at least the names of the groups involved, Mahmoud says that they are “awaiting that the federal government will announce this; Because it is responsible for protecting the security of the country. If it fails to do so, the region’s authorities will have to declare the facts. ”
Causes of attacks
Mahmoud believes that repeating the attacks on the Kurdistan region is a “clear plan and aims to pressure economically and militarily on the region, as well as seeking to stop the work of American and non -American companies to work in oil and gas investments within the region.”
Mahmoud adds another reason for these targeting, and is an attempt to “pressure the Kurdistan Democratic Party with the aim of forcing him to alliance with the” coordination framework “forces to weaken the Sadrist movement and remove it from the political process, or that the goal is to remove the Democratic Party and compel it to withdraw from the political process, and try to remove it from the Democratic Union Party.
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