Mahdi Army rearming itself

Amer­i­can forces medi­at­ing in Anbar

Al-Hayat reported that the Amer­i­cans and the Kurds gave Maliki’s the “Green Light” to bypass “Al-Tawafiq Front” from his new gov­ern­ment to choose Sun­nis min­is­ters out­side the “Front” [prob­a­bly from the “Awak­en­ing Coun­cils”], but a very con­fus­ing report on Kuwaiti news­pa­per Awan say­ing that the Amer­i­cans are medi­at­ing between the Islamic Party [part of Al-Tawafiq] and the Anbar Awak­en­ing Coun­cil, and you can notice Hashimi’s good mode towards the Awak­en­ing Coun­cils in his inter­view today on Elaph.

[I don’t know what is the Amer­i­cans plan? Is it to take the Islamic Party out of its alliance and iso­lates “Al-Tawafiq”?]

I read recently many reports on Arab news­pa­pers about how Maliki’s gov­ern­ment are miss­ing the “Awak­en­ing Coun­cils” oppor­tu­nity, last report appeared today on Al-Qabas called exactly the same, the writer says:

The “Awak­en­ing” lead­ers are neglected by the gov­ern­ment because the Defense Min­istry and the Inte­rior Min­istry are dom­i­nated by pow­er­ful Shi­ite parties.

National Rec­on­cil­i­a­tion

Accord­ing to one Iraqi web­site, prepa­ra­tion for the national rec­on­cil­i­a­tion meet­ing in Cairo is already started yes­ter­day, no men­tion Iraqi resis­tance but most of the pow­er­ful Iraqi par­ties will par­tic­i­pate in the meet­ing, the report men­tions that a group of the par­tic­i­pants are already arrived to Amman in their way to Cairo.

Mahdi Army re-arming itself

With all the con­fused reports about Al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army, news­pa­per Al-Wasat con­tacted sources who revealed that lead­ers of Mahdi Army gave their orders to their fight­ers to pre­pare them­selves and be ready for com­ing con­flicts with the Iraqi army and the occu­pa­tion forces.

Also the news­pa­per reported that the struc­ture of Mahdi Army is change by divid­ing it into many small groups, but it is unknown what is the nature and tasks of these groups.