Al-Mandlawi calls for activating intelligence efforts and communicating with Syria to exchange information

Baghdad-INA  
The First Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mohsen Al-Mandlawi, called today, Monday, for activating intelligence efforts and communicating with Syria to exchange information.
 
The media office of the First Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): that "The First Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mohsen Al-Mandlawi, chaired the emergency meeting held by the Parliamentary Security and Defense Committee under his direction, in which the Minister of Defense, the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Commander of the Border Guard Forces, and the commanders of the branches in the Ministries of Interior and Defense were hosted, in the presence of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Shakha Wan, and the Chairman and members of the Security and Defense Committee; to discuss developments in events in Syria and their repercussions on Iraq, and to review the security services' preparations and needs to confront the threat of terrorist groups."
 
  "Al-Mandlawi called on security officials to continuously update security plans to confront internal and external threats, and to intensify field presence to inspect units and secure their needs, in addition to activating intelligence efforts with a friendly countries, especially neighboring Syria, to exchange information, in addition to implementing qualitative preemptive operations to prevent the infiltration of terrorist gangs, and raising the level of coordination between security agencies and ministries, including non-military ones, to secure the requirements of supporting the armed forces, and confronting attempts to spread rumors and lies by maintaining communication with national media institutions."
 
Al-Mandlawi stressed that "Iraq has the right to defend security and national peace from a legal perspective and in accordance with Iraqi and international law, and that the country enjoys and is protected by the supreme religious authority (May Allah protect him) and its fatwa for sufficient jihad, which provided more popular support for the security forces, pointing to the importance of readiness and preparedness to confront any action that would threaten the security and safety of the country," stressing at the same time that "the legislative authority supports the various types of heroic security forces, and the Security and Defense Committee is ready to convene permanently in order to support them."