Shi'ite Iraqi Ali Amin Abdullah survived 2 years in Mosul under the rule of PISSI by pretending to be Sunni. He did this so effectively that the Iraqi army put him in prison and his family cannot find him.

There is a rational need to do something to prevent PISSI supporters from remaining underground in Mosul and setting up cells to try to take power again. But it has to be done without terrorizing masses of people because they appear to be Sunnis, or even because they are Sunnis.