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A source familiar with the Prime Minister General Commander of the Armed Forces Nouri al-Maliki made the decision to cut the salaries and allowances of three battalions of the band 12.
The source said the three regiments that have been reported to cut payroll consists drawn from the Kurds, most of whom were from the protections officials in the Kurdish parties were organized in the framework of the band mentioned.
He added that the General Command of the Armed Forces has also cut off all allocations from the Military College in Qala Golan and the Military College in Zakho subsidiaries to the Iraqi Ministry of Defense.
They pointed out that these measures have been taken because of the tension between the province and the center on the Tigris Operations Command.
The Ministry of Defence announced, in (July 3, 2012), the formation of "Operations Command Tigris" headed by the commander of Diyala operations team Abdul Amir al-Zaidi to oversee the security file in the provinces of Diyala and Kirkuk, as announced security committee in the House of Kirkuk rejected the resolution "because maintaining a safe and disputed areas ", stressing that it would fail without prior coordination between the governments in Baghdad and Erbil and Kirkuk.
The earlier decision mixed reactions, where MP from the Kurdistan Alliance Mahma Khalil, in the (July 4, 2012), resolution "targeting political par excellence," warning Iraqi army officers "who carry the legacy and culture of the former regime" of overtaking on the Constitution and the benefits, as he emphasized Head of the Liberal bloc Bahaa al-Araji, (10 September 2012), the Office of the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and of the Council of Ministers are the ones who put up the country's politics, saying that the formation of the Tigris Operations Command's decision should not Agad others.
Relations between Baghdad and Erbil experiencing chronic crisis worsened months ago but intensified in recent after disagreements on the deployment of troops on the border between Iraq and Syria in the north, and the other belonging to the oil contracts concluded by the Kurdistan region with a number of foreign companies which Baghdad deems illegal, while says the region they are based on the Iraqi constitution and the bilateral agreements with the federal government.
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