- An expla­na­tion of the failed assas­si­na­tion attempt against Al-Hayat core­spon­dents “Abd Al-Wahid Tuma” and “Soudad Al-Alihi” yes­ter­day as reported today by the “Iraqi Assem­bly for the Defense of the Jour­nal­ists Rights” after they revealed today to Al-Hayat that 9,000 gov­ern­ment offi­cials are hold­ing false school-graduation cer­tifi­cates among them Maliki’s top advi­sors and two ministers.

The first vic­tim of the forgery school-certificates is the gov­er­nor Babil, mem­bers of the province with­draw their con­fi­dence because the gov­er­nor never fin­ished his school, got his job using false documents.

- A del­e­ga­tion from the “Iraqi Resis­tance Polit­i­cal Coun­cil” vis­ited Egypt yes­ter­day, meet­ing Egypt­ian offi­cials as reported by MENA [via Alquds Alarabi], no more details avail­able but this is the first time Egypt announce such visit.