Huda Jassim (Baghdad)
The successive events that Iraq witnessed during the past years raised talk about the “uncontrolled weapons” crisis in the country, which prompted the successive governments to rule Iraq for more than 10 years, to the need to control the loose weapons and confine them to the hands of the state, which experts describe as “ An unresolved dilemma.”
Over the past years, the demonstrators and some opinion makers have had the largest share, in an attempt to silence them or divert the course of what they demand or at least talk about.
Heads of government were not spared the threat of this weapon, as indicated by former Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi when he announced the formation of an investigation committee to determine those responsible for placing weapons in the hands of those who opened fire on the demonstrators during the crisis of forming the current government and the exit of the protesters from the “Sadr movement” and the “coordinating framework.”
Al-Kazemi pointed to the need to “put weapons under the authority of the state,” speaking of a crisis in Iraq because of “uncontrolled weapons.”
The ministerial curriculum of the current Prime Minister, Muhammad Shiaa al-Sudani, included a paragraph on uncontrolled weapons, and the need to work to limit it to the hands of the state.
The director of the Iraqi Center for Strategic Studies, Ghazi Faisal Hussein, believes that the spread of the phenomenon of uncontrolled weapons in Iraq is a “complex crisis.” He said in a statement to “Al-Ittihad” that “the militias carrying arms in Iraq are a state within the state, and they possess economic, financial and political capabilities, and they have factories for weapons, missiles and drones.”
Hussein indicated that the issue is not easy, and it will not be resolved by words, but rather requires an intelligence and political security operation at the same time, with the wide spread that no prime minister has an absolutely clear map for, while seeking to prepare the requirements for the actual and practical implementation of the slogan “Constraining arms to the hand.” The state. Legal expert Amir Al-Daami says: “We have experienced the file of arms confiscation in the hands of the state for nearly 10 years, and it is a file that every government that comes to power sings about, but unfortunately it remains just wishful thinking, far from reality.”
Al-Daami believes in an interview with Al-Ittihad that “the Sudanese cannot confine weapons to the state because the issue requires audacity and a political and military decision, which is what the current government lacks, to push this direction, and also because of the domination and aggravation of the uncontrolled weapon, so the paragraph of limiting weapons remains within The government program is just ink on paper that will not see the light and will not come out of the drawers of the Prime Minister’s office.”
But security expert Fadel Abu Ragheef has a different opinion. In statements to Al-Ittihad, he confirmed that Al-Sudani will take new political, military and clan paths in order to achieve this issue, and through cooperation between the blocs emanating from the womb of Parliament.
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