Nazem Dabbagh, the representative of KRG of Iraq in Tehran indicated some aspects of the recent attack of Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) in note for Etemaad news paper.
At the begging he said as the ISIS concern is not new but the problem is the extra forces of ISIS that were active in Syria entered Iraq. Therefore intelligence force of Iraq could not assess this case. He continued: Mosul is the second largest city after Baghdad. ISIS managed to after occupying this city headed Samarra, Salaheddin and Kirkuk, and took them under its control.
Although Iraqi forces could get back the control of the regions, Iraq needs to overview security problems. Dabbagh found the army weak, he knew the reason that nearly 100000 security forces could not prevent 3000 to 6000 forces of ISIS. In his view this weakness is in the security and intelligence system of Iraq, as in Iraq government.
At the end, Dabbagh started to offer strategies to influentially react to ISIS of which the center was people cooperation with the army. In the direction of obtaining necessary information concerning cases of people cooperation with the army was his desirable requirements. Dabbagh continued: to create national unity and serious participation among interior groups and parties of Iraq as well as Pishmerga of Iraq, army and security forces can find the main solution for present crises of Iraq. Finally he deemed the creation of unity among all Iraqi groups as necessary condition to react against ISIS and claimed if it fail to from the unity, the this terrorist groups will appear on political map.
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