Nujaifi accuses ISIS, armed militias of attempting to assassinate him

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Governor of Nineveh province, Etheel al-Nujaifi, accused the terrorists of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and armed militias of attempting to assassinate him on Monday.

Nijaifi published on his personal Facebook page that ”While I was returning from the a meeting with Ghanim Hamid, a member of Nineveh Provincial Council, I was attacked by explosion of two Improvised Explosive Devices that targeted my motorcade in Arabi neighborhood.”

”The explosion of the two IEDs resulted in wounding two members of Nineveh Provincial Council and caused material damages to five vehicles of the motorcade,” he added.

”The style of the operation expose that the armed militias in that area are involved with the crime since the terrorists of ISIS and militias have a lot of common interests,” he concluded.