Maliki secretly met with the oppositions in Jordan

Maliki met the oppo­si­tion in Jordan

Jor­dan­ian news­pa­per revealed that Iraqi Prime Min­is­ter Maliki held an announced, secret meet­ings with lead­ers of polit­i­cal oppo­si­tions from the pre-occupation gov­ern­ment in the Royal Hotel in Amman – Jordan.

The sources con­firmed that al-Maliki met with Iraqi guests, polit­i­cal lead­ers and tribal chiefs, the meet­ing ended in a polit­i­cal reconciliation.

The news­pa­per didn’t men­tioned any names of the oppo­si­tions or if they are resis­tance groups or not.

Sistani’s posi­tion still uncertain

There are two ver­sions of Sistani’s opin­ion about the U.S. — Iraq secu­rity agree­ment, through Al-Karbala’i his rep­re­sen­ta­tive in the Fri­day speech.

The first ver­sion reported:

Sistani’s rep­re­sen­ta­tive rejects secret chap­ter to be included in the agreement.

This sug­gests that he don’t mind sign­ing the agreement.

The sec­ond ver­sion said:

Sistani’s rep­re­sen­ta­tive, appealed to the agreement’s rejecters to keep their positions.

This sug­gests that he dis­agree with sign­ing the agreement.

New polit­i­cal Bloc

An inter­est­ing alliance between Ja’fari and Allawi will be announced tomor­row accord­ing to Al-Hurriyanews. Although there are fears among the United Iraqi Alliance as the news site reported, that the new bloc will dom­i­nate approx­i­mately 95 seats in the par­lia­ment, com­pared to the 83 seats to the UIA [more bad news for the UIA on Wasat Online, Al-Hakim is not inter­ested to join the Dawa Party in the elec­tion].

Except their des­per­a­tion to power, there is noth­ing com­mon between these two. I don’t think this new Bloc is going to sur­vive for long time.