Al-Iraqiya Coalition MP charges National Coalition with preventing former Iraqi Army officers to return to service

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: A Legislature of al-Iraqiya Coalition, led by Iyad Allawi, representing north Iraq’s Ninewa Province, has charged the National Coalition, led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki with preventing Iraq’s former Army officers of Ninewa Province to return to service, under charges with their links to the Baath Party.   “When Operations ‘Um al-Rabiayn” began in Ninewa Province in 2008, the former Iraqi Army officers expressed their readiness to return to service; but after their interviews took place, only very few of them were restored to their posts, because the National Coalition does not desire a genuine partnership due to its holding of the political decision in the State,” Ahmed al-Jibouri told IraqiNews.com news agency.   Jibouri said that “the National Coalition does not want the said officers back to their posts in the Iraqi Army and the Security Institution, charging them with having links with Baath Party and the former regime, thing that is not right, and Ninewa officers are efficient and must be treated with professionalism, similar to their colleagues, the officers of Iraq’s southern Provinces.”   “Al-Iraqiya Coalition has demanded the National Coalition to follow the principle of balancing, towards the Security Institution and the Iraqi Army, especially that Ninewa Province forms 11 percent of Iraq’s total population, and each 40 military formation includes at least one major-general from Mosul (Ninewa),” he said.   He said that “Iraqi Army does not have a single division commander from Mosul, along with 3 battalion commanders.. Isn’t this differentiation?, whilst Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, is speaking about balancing, whilst there exists persons, who occupy positions they don’t deserve,” charging that “those persons were accused by corruption and had not been professional.”   SKH (RT) 469