Maliki to disband Awakening Councils

The best details about “Sons of Iraq” or “Awak­en­ing Coun­cils” dis­band is pro­vided by Al Khaleej. Accord­ing to the newspaper’s sources:

Maliki will form a com­mit­tee to study the pro­ce­dures to abol­ish “Awak­en­ing Coun­cils” called by some Iraqi offi­cials “The Amer­i­can Mili­tias”. Maliki faces crit­i­cism from these offi­cials because of his “silence” on this “Amer­i­can Mili­tia” formed in an excep­tional circumstances.

The news­pa­per con­clu­sion is that Maliki plays “the dis­band of the Awak­en­ing Coun­cil” to put more pres­sure on the Amer­i­cans in the secu­rity agree­ment negotiations.

Another ben­e­fit for Maliki is:

If there is already Sun­nis rep­re­sen­ta­tive in his gov­ern­ment — The Islamic Party — so why cre­ates another Sunni bloc?, talk­ing about Awak­en­ing Coun­cils want to form a polit­i­cal bloc.