Tribal Councils, what are they good for?
Why the name “Tribal Council” in this report sounds familiar to my ears when I was in Iraq?
Yes…that was Ali Hassan al-Majid’s idea in 2003 before the invasion, and before that the name was “The Iraqi National League of Tribal Chiefs”, and the one before that was “The Tribal National Council”, led by Hussein Shaalan, as far as I can remember.
So, why Maliki uses old Saddam’s tactics, forming “Tribal Support Council” [and "Awakening Councils], while few months ago, Maliki and his government rejected the idea in the Shiite majority South Iraq?
According Al-Zubaidi:
Maliki and his party lost their public support, after Maliki’s military campaigns, in Basra, Mosul and Baghdad.
Maliki emerged from these campaigns empty-handed, while Al-Hakim’s “Supreme Islamic Council” is the biggest winner [by eliminating their rivals the Sadrists].
Forming the “Tribal councils, is Maliki’s last card to retain his popularity in the Iraqi street and among the Americans.
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§1. On sunday, there was a “tribal” meeting of Al-Maliki with the tribal chiefs and notables of al-Jubur clans
link is here
Maliki’s office statement quoted the al-Jubur chieftains as expressing “support for the government’s efforts to realize security, stability and welfare all over Iraq and to apply the law and maintain the state’s power and national reconciliation”.
It seems that such ideas disappointed somebody, since
§2. On thusday there was a car bomb explosion targeting the house of tribal chieftain Abdel Razaq al-Wakaa in al-Kayara district, 60 km south of Mosul.
Al-Wakaa, the tribal chieftain of Jouburi tribe, a mixed Sunni-Shiite Arab tribe extending over most Iraqi provinces, and his wife were wounded in the blast
link is here
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Jul 2nd, 2008
LadyBird
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Thank you for the links, it is good to see here again
Jul 2nd, 2008
NDHF Net
Thanks, no problem with the absense, the NDHF build-up’s been the priority: we anticipated that the Google Corporation’s next move - taking place now - would be to filter all the headlines of the independent media, so the NDHF Net site is designed so that this won’t work against us: all our headlines are and will available directly on the desktop (in addition to this, further desktops with links will be provided in our Open Source Center). As with Finnish and Iraqi liberation war coverages, and all kinds of stuff, everyone’s been rather busy here in Finland, so sorry for not popping in
As somewhat related to that: we’re scouting out the width and depth of the Iraq war phony media coverage and related to that would take interest whether the Roads to Iraq (with RSS) has requested Google News indexing for the RtoI headlines.
You do not need to reply to this, of course, or can do it privately, if preferring that. Part of fixing the frontline related to a NDHF article: link is here
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Jul 3rd, 2008
NDHF Net
There are big problems among the friendly sites in the cyberspace:
§1. Iraqi coverage sites - or those near by, at least NDHF Net & possibly Roads to Iraq (?) - such as HEYET Net, Voices of Iraq and Islamic Army in Iraq site do not get Google News indexing for their headlines. One cannot underline the meaning of primary sources here (thus the new NDHF Net “editorial policy”
§2. Uruknet’s cut off from the Google indexing for the headlines & its articles are becoming filtered and thus wiped off by the Google “News” Team.
§3. Iraq-war.ru’s down for the second day straight (or up with outdated coverage) with much confusion among the visitors already present there
§4. Many seemingly anti-war sites do not publish anything that might endanger their Google indexing as well…
§5. Among the corporate media there is an all-out media black-out to cover the most recent deptions on the ground in Iraq.
Instead they’re rerolling the phony “Iran war” coverage to hide the oil loot scam…
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p.s. Among other the NDHF Net provides an all-volunteer mirroring site service to HEYET Net so that now that HEYET Net’s under renewation you’ll find the coverage on NDHF Net link is here
Jul 3rd, 2008