Shafaq News / On Sunday, a member of the Security and Defense Committee in the Iraqi Parliament, Naim Al-Kaoud, revealed that the Iraqi intelligence services had informed the government authorities of plans to carry out terrorist attacks in Baghdad, indicating that the government failed to deal seriously with the matter.

 Al-Kaoud told with Shafaq News agency, "the government did not take seriously the intelligence that indicated ISIS's intention to carry out terrorist attacks in populated areas."

 Al-Kaoud added, "the Parliamentary Security Committee is awaiting clarifications from the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, PM Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, about the telegrams submitted by the security services about terrorist threats days before the tragedy of Tayaran Square, as well as the government's military spokesman, Major General Yahya Rasul, about the two suicide bombers who have killed themselves upon being chased by security forces."