Iraqi leader warns Kurds over independence referendum violence

Haider al-Abadi prepared to intervene militarily if Iraq’s population is ‘threatened by the use of force outside the law’The Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, says he is prepared to intervene militarily if the Kurdish region’s planned independence referendum results in violence.In an interview with the Associated Press on Saturday, Al-Abadi said if the Iraqi population was “threatened by the use of force outside the law, then we will intervene militarily”