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Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al Kadhimi pledged to personally undertake a review of the intelligence services after a double suicide bombing claimed by ISIS killed dozens
in the capital on Thursday.
At
a meeting of his National Security Council on Friday, Mr Al Kadhimi called for incompetent security officials to resign.
"Security is not just a word we speak in the media, but a responsibility,"
Mr Al Kadhimi said
. "Whoever does not rise to their responsibility to protect citizens and their security must step down from his position."
Several top security officials were sacked or transferred from their posts immediately after the bombings, including the deputy minister of interior for intelligence affairs, the interior ministry's director general of intelligence and combating terrorism, and the director of intelligence and security for Baghdad.