Iraq's Kurds say 'hysterical' Maliki must quit
 

https://s3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/B...c161473bef.jpgA spokesman for Iraqi Kurdish president Massud Barzani said Thursday national premier Nuri al-Maliki had "become hysterical" and should step down after he accused the auto**mous region of harbouring militants. Maliki "has become hysterical and has lost his balance," said the statement, published on the Kurdish regional presidency website in English. The virulent statement came after Maliki charged that the Kurdish regional capital Arbil was harbouring militants fighting his government, including from the Islamic State jihadist group which declared a caliphate in Iraq and Syria last month. "We can**t be silent over a movement that exploited the circumstances and expanded," Maliki said Wednesday, infuriated by a Kurdish an**uncement that plans for an independence referendum were to speed up.




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