Osama al-Nujaifi: Brotherhood member guarding Turkey’s interests in Iraq

Ahmed Adel

Following in the footsteps of his predecessors, who were agents and traitors to their homelands, Osama al-Nujaifi has proceeded to try to revive the Brotherhood and support Turkey in Iraq via the United for Iraq party, which he founded in 2017. Nujaifi’s background is linked to the Brotherhood and Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has economic interests with the Iraqi, who served as Minister of Industry in 2005.

Guardian of Turkey’s interests

Nujaifi also plays a role in empowering Turkey inside Iraq and is considered the guardian of Turkish interests in the Iraqi province of Nineveh. He assists Ankara in its ambitious goals to control Nineveh and moves to put pressure on Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in order for him to turn a blind eye to the Turkish escalation against Iraq and seek the help of Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani to double the pressure on Kadhimi. The goal is to not suspend trade exchange with Turkey so as not to lose about $16 billion annually.

Iraqi cancer

Nujaifi’s shadow has been a cancer to Iraq, as he seemed to survive in crises by burning his closest relatives and torching fires on his opponents to remain alone in the political arena as an option when he crossed the border.

Nujaifi and his brother Atheel were a major part of the cause of the fall of Mosul, due to pitting the situation and the people against the Iraqi army and the government, which also shared its mistakes in this security breakdown, although it was the politicians that subsist on the sectarian war and played a major role in the collapse.

His close relationship with the Turks did not prevent him from specializing in the breeding of purebred Arabian horses, which he and his brother claimed ISIS had confiscated. However, Atheel’s tongue slipped when he said that they were able to retrieve a number of the horses, forgetting the negotiations he entered into with ISIS to retrieve the horses, without any concern for the captured city.

Nujaifi also contributed to a failed administration of the Iraqi parliament, which was part of the method of covering up corruption, perpetuating the paralysis that afflicted the parliament by the representatives and administration, in addition to his bias in managing the session in a sectarian manner.

The atmosphere between Baghdad and Ankara has been severely tense recently against the backdrop of a series of Turkish attacks inside Iraqi territory under the pretext of pursuing the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which caused the killing of Iraqi civilians and soldiers, including a prominent general in the border forces.

Amidst these escalating tensions, Osama al-Nujaifi, the former parliament speaker who currently leads the Salvation and Development Front, which has a few representatives in parliament, is moving between many circles to surround the crisis between Baghdad and Ankara.