Too many Sadrists in Mysan

Dawa vs. SIIC

I think a war started today between Dawa Party [Maliki] and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Coun­cil [Hakim]. Maliki’s gov­ern­ment put a new law today for­bid par­ties from using “reli­gious sym­bols” in the elec­tion.
Maliki’s deci­sion is part of the hid­den, silent war between the united Iraqi Alliance fac­tions, reported here [Dawa vs. SIIC] answer­ing SIIC and Hakim deci­sion to use Sistani’s image to attracts voters.

Too many Sadrists in Mysan

R. Visser did did a good job to explain the sit­u­a­tion in Mysan, and here I am just explain­ing things.

Let me first intro­duce to Mysan-governor “Addir Mah­door Al-Maliki [Iron­i­cally he is from Maliki’s tribe but he Sadrists].

There were many scan­dals with province-governors using their party’s con­nec­tion to get the job, even they don’t own any diplo­mas or they rep­re­sented fake diploma.

Mysan gov­er­nor is an excep­tional, he is [as far as I know] is the only gov­er­nor with real engi­neer­ing diploma. That explains the boom­ing projects in the province; Amara’s munic­i­pal web­site explains the whole $25 Bil­lion projects such as streets paving, san­i­ta­tions, oil refin­ery and the province own elec­tric­ity station.

Although the news of the arrest of the gov­er­nor is denied by the web­site, but there was sud­den, “unex­plained’ arrests of many Sadrists offi­cials in the province. One line on the Al-Khaleej maybe explains why.

The cam­paign aims to restruc­ture more than 50% of the police and secu­rity lead­er­ship and the insti­tu­tions of the province.

In plain lan­guage, this means Amara province is pro-Sadrists and the gov­er­nor is doing his best to serve the res­i­dents which makes the Sadrists much more pop­u­lar, and that must be changed.