Abu Al-Abed expired

I read this story about a week ago on Iraqi Rabita, Sa’ad A’araibi aka “Abu Al-Abed” expired, but I waited for more con­fir­ma­tion and it came today on Al-Hayat:

Abu Al-Abed accused the Iraqi gov­ern­ment and the Amer­i­can forces on using the “Awak­en­ing Coun­cil” as a tool to wipe out the armed fac­tions in Bagh­dad, after the Amer­i­cans and the gov­ern­ment failed to do so.

The two inter­est­ing in Iraqi Rabita report:

- Jor­dan­ian gov­ern­ment asked Abu AL-Abed to leave the coun­try because Jor­dan doesn’t want to risk their inter­ests with the Iraqi gov­ern­ment by Abu Al-Abed pres­ence [I guess that he is in Syria right now, if the Syr­i­ans accepts him as a refugee].

- The Amer­i­cans [and Maliki’s gov­ern­ment] appointed a “sub­sti­tute” called Moham­mad Al-Kuhli to take over the Awak­en­ing Coun­cils in Baghdad.

Aya­tol­lah Fadlallah’s Fatwa

Aya­tol­lah Mohammed Hus­sein Fad­lal­lah issued a Fatwa [full Fatwa] says that any Iraqi author­ity signs an agree­ment with the Amer­i­cans is an ille­git­i­mate author­ity [from the reli­gious point of view].

He also calls for an Arab — Islamic ini­tia­tive to take over the Amer­i­can tasks of train­ing the Iraqi army.

The big issue with this, is that Fad­lal­lah is one the supreme-references fol­lowed by Dawa Party mem­bers [Maliki], break­ing his words can lead to harsh consequences.

Resis­tance leaflets in Babil

I am not sure if this is true story or not, my doubts are this is a prepa­ra­tion for another mil­i­tary cam­paign in the Babil province. Maliki enjoys the atten­tion of the Amer­i­can media which describes him as a hero. He must keep this image ‘till the election.