Roads to Iraq

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.