600 Tribal Chieftains in Missan, south Iraq, express support for security forces after US withdrawal

MISSAN / IraqiNews.com: 600 Iraqi Tribal Chieftains in southern Iraq‘s Missan Province have expressed support for the security forces in their province, after the withdrawal of the American forces from the province, according to a statement by the Director of Tribes in Missan on Thursday. “600 Tribal Chieftains in Missan Province have announced today (Thursday) their support for the Iraqi police, army and Internal Security Forces, in a broad security conference held in Amara, the center of Missan Province,” Colonel Hassan Abdl-Naby, told IraqiNews.com news agency, pointing out that “the conference was attended by the Chairman of Missan‘s Council, Abdul-Hussein al-Saedy, the Province’s Council Members and Parliament Members, along with the Director-General of Missan Pollice, Lt-Brigadier, Ali al-Hashimy.” On his part, the Chief of al-Sudan Tribe and Legislature, Sheikh Mohammed Saadoun al-Seyhoud, told Iraqi News that “the said announcement by Missan‘s Chieftains was not strange, because their active role in supporting the Security Forces in protecting security and order in the Province, during the operations that took place in 2007 and the period that followed those operations that witnessed a considerable stability in the Province.” “Everybody, including the Tribal Chieftains, are demanded to become on hand, to prove for those who voted on the deterioration of the security conditions in the Province, after the departure of the Americans, that they had been mistaken,” he said. Amara, the center of Missan Province, is 390 km to the south of Baghdad.