Newspaper: Dick Cheney gave the orders for Basra campaign

Maliki’s gov­ern­ment busy try­ing to save face by issu­ing a dead line for Mahdi fight­ers, but the real­ity is another way around it is Al-Sadr asks AL-Maliki to leave the city, Maliki was saved by the Amer­i­can heli­copters when the fight­ers sur­rounded his res­i­dent in Basra, Al-Qabas reported about the main prob­lem faced the gov­ern­ment in this bad pre­sen­ta­tion that forced Maliki to use his rel­a­tives with extra forces came from Karbala:

Mem­bers of army and the police did not carry out the mil­i­tary orders many of them delib­er­ately went back to their homes with lack of desire to fight this bat­tle and the com­pli­cated tribal links among the forces and mil­i­tants, but there also Mahdi Army’s expe­ri­ence fac­tor in urban, guer­rilla war.

Notice what Nazar Hatim wrote to the same newspaper:

[At the end of his report he men­tions the 17 sol­diers arrested yes­ter­day but he don’t says their nation­al­ity, are they the same Amer­i­can sol­diers reported yes­ter­day]

Zuhair Al-Dujaili take a pre­view on the gov­ern­ment per­for­mance for the few last months:

The bumpy polit­i­cal process, Maliki-government ten­dency to beau­tify its per­for­mance for the last two years, hid­ing the real prob­lems and using fake media report manip­u­lat­ing facts, the real­ity is now explod­ing in form of polit­i­cal and secu­rity crises, for the time being the gov­ern­ment can use mil­i­tary forces to solve some of these crises but not enough to extin­guish the fires that erupt around.

Cheney’s orders

For Al-Arab news­pa­per sources tell about Dick Cheney gave the green light to start Basra cam­paign against Mahdi Army in his visit to Bagh­dad [see this, what do you think they are talk­ing about? …grow­ing flow­ers?], and the goal is to give the Iraqi forces more con­fi­dence in itself to carry on the secu­rity respon­si­bil­i­ties in the south of Iraq.

Amer­i­can com­man­der of South-Iraq dis­cussed with high rank marines offi­cers; how to involve south­ern Iraq mili­tias such as Mahdi Army, Ali bin Abi Talib Brigades and Al-Taf Brigades in a final battle.

The topic had been raised dur­ing Dick Cheney recent visit to Iraq, where he agreed on the sub­ject, con­sid­ered it impor­tant by the end of George Bush pres­i­den­tial term.