IS threatens to target polling stations in Iraq, politicians easing
IS mercenary threatened to target the polling stations in Iraqi parliamentary elections scheduled for next May, while an Iraqi politician underestimated these threats, and said that the police and security will protect polling stations.
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Abo Hasan al-Muhajir, a spokesman for IS mercenaries, warned in a voice message broadcast on Sunday evening that Iraqis should not go to the polls.
He said: "We warn you, Sunnis in Iraq, to take over these people (Shiites), and that the polling stations are a goal for us, so stay away from them and do not approach to them."
He accused Iraqi government of being an agent of Iran and added that "whoever participates in the elections of candidates and voters and supporters are infidels and their sentence is "death."
The movement leader of "All of us is Iraq" Mahmoud Anwar, said to Sputnik "Daesh ended largely in Iraq, but still has some tails pursued by the security services, and we will not allow them to thwart the elections."
"Before the Iraqis fear these hollow threats, they must first understand: what will these fugitives and hideouts have to leave their safe burrows, to reappear and risk of being killed or arrested by the military, police and counterterrorism forces?"
He stressed that all security services in Iraq, in addition to the army forces, anti-riot and anti-terrorism will participate in securing the electoral process.
Iraqi parliamentary elections are due to take place on May 12.
Iraq, in the words of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, announced in December 2017 victory over Daesh who occupied vast areas in Iraq in 2014, but Daesh resorted to guerrilla war against the army and Iraqi security forces and launched many attacks.
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