Tal­a­bani insulted

Among the many U.S. — Iraq secu­rity agree­ment rejec­tion opin­ions, Qabanji said: “We will not sign this agree­ment in dark rooms”, and the usual Fri­day demon­stra­tion by the Sadrists , which is accord­ing to Al-Akhbar pre­vented and the demon­stra­tors blocked by the Amer­i­can occu­pa­tion forces.

The most pow­er­ful rejec­tion came from Aya­tol­lah Al-Khalisi who said:

What is the dif­fer­ence between the peo­ple who killed or par­tic­i­pated in killing Imam Hus­sein and the peo­ple who want to sign the [SOFA] agree­ment for few millions?

And he even insulted Tal­a­bani for shak­ing hands with the Israelis:

He, the so called pres­i­dent of Iraq, you saw him by your own eyes…his spokesman said: “This hand­shake is not oblig­a­tory for the state of Iraq”.

Of course it is not oblig­a­tory, who are you to oblige the Iraqi people?

You are a col­lab­o­ra­tor and prac­tic­ing trea­son since you born, from the time of the for­mer regime, you did your best to sat­isfy him with fight­ing or false strug­gle. These are not new issues, they are facts and real­i­ties lived by the [Iraqi] peo­ple repeat­edly, and we know it.

join the Diyala dots

I will give you the “frame­work”, and you will track the dots to decode the story:

Out of the sud­den and for the last few months, vio­lence started again in Diyala. Although news reports stated that “Armed Coun­cils” an equiv­a­lent to the “Awak­en­ing Coun­cils” are behind these new con­flicts, as Diyala police chief said to AlHayat:

The secu­rity oper­a­tion is related to the dis­band of the “Armed Coun­cils”, they still exist in Diyala and the sur­round­ing villages.

In their State­ment here, the major armed fac­tion in Diyala denies any rela­tion with the new vio­lence wave in the province [in ear­lier state­ment they even denied that the fac­tion present in Diyala].

The image above is a screen­shot from reported by an eye­wit­ness say­ing that Iraqi army is mov­ing towards Diyala from two direc­tions: 1– from Bagh­dad 2– from Kirkuk, which sug­gests that a mil­i­tary cam­paign on its way in the province.

I won­der if this mil­i­tary cam­paign has any­thing to do with Diyala’s tribal chiefs announce­ment today in AlHayat that they refuse to give away Diyala’s two cities [Jalwla’a and Sa’adiya] to Kurdistan?

We saw the same sce­nario in Mosul also.