To those who deny that Maliki retreated from Mosul

If you didn't believe it before you better believe it now. The army did in fact retreat from Mosul at the advance of ISIS. The arguments about the Arab armies being 'cowards' and fleeing from combat are just pure Orientalist propaganda to demean and demotivate the Ummah in its trust and reliance on the military.

If they were not told to retreat by Maliki then there would be no need for an Iraqi parliamentary investigative report that accounts senior officials for the setback in Mosul and Iraq in general after the orders for retreating.

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Former Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, has rejected allegations that he was responsible for the fall of Iraq’s second city, Mosul, to Daesh Takfiri militants last year.

Speaking in a press conference in the Iranian capital Tehran on Monday, Maliki called into question the integrity of a recent report by an Iraqi parliamentary investigative committee, which held him and a number of other senior Iraqi officials accountable for the setback.

Instead, Maliki blamed Turkey and Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) for the fall of Mosul, saying Daesh's takeover took place after the KRG ordered Kurdish fighters to retreat from the conflict zone.

Maliki, who is currently serving as Iraq’s vice president, further stated that the Iraqi army and police also withdrew from the capital of Nineveh province, leaving Shia fighters alone in their battle against Takfiris.

Lawmakers affiliated with Maliki’s party in the Iraqi parliament threatened to resign if the committee refuses to remove the name of the country’s former premier from its report.

Mosul file to be referred to judiciary  

Maliki's remarks came hours after Iraqi lawmakers voted to refer the parliamentary report to the judiciary.

Salim al-Juburi, the Iraqi parliament speaker

"None of the names mentioned in this report were deleted, and all of them will be sent to the judiciary. An investigation and follow up and accounting of all those who caused the fall of Mosul will be carried out," Iraqi speaker of parliament Salim al-Juburi said.

The report is the first official document citing top political figures and military commanders, allegedly responsible for the fall of Mosul.

Other former senior figures include acting Defense Minister Saadun al-Dulaimi, former Army Chief of Staff Babaker Zebari and his deputy Aboud Qanbar, Ground Forces Commander Ali Ghaidan, Nineveh operations command chief Mahdi al-Gharawi and the province's governor, Atheel al-Nujaifi.

Source: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/08/17/425140/Iraq-Daesh-Mosul-Maliki