Real­iz­ing that play­ing the democ­racy game means they will loss their demands in Kirkuk, Kurds are now tak­ing more hos­tile approach to include Kirkuk, parts of Mosul and parts of Dialya to their Kur­dis­tan region as reported today by Al-Hayat.

Con­firms Al-Hayat report, Al-Marsad Al-Iraqi reported that Kurds mili­tia in Kirkuk asks the res­i­dents of the city to pro­vide per­sonal infor­ma­tion and their eth­nic iden­tity falsely claim­ing that these are the orders from Maliki’s government.

No won­der that Kha­laf al-Alyan asked to sack Tal­a­bani after he rejected the “elec­tions law”, espe­cially after the parliament’s deci­sion of 32% eth­nic power share in Kirkuk, is rec­om­mended by Tal­a­bani him­self two months ago.

These are his exact words:

My per­sonal opin­ion is that Kirkuk is a mini-city rep­re­sents Iraq’s unity. It needs to develop a spe­cial treatment.

Point­ing out that he had pro­posed the dis­tri­b­u­tion of offi­cial posts by 32% for each of the Turkomen, Kurds and Arabs, and 4% of other nation­al­i­ties [Chris­tians].

Inter­est­ing to see Maliki’s Dawa Party joins the oppo­si­tion against the rejec­tion of the provin­cial law accord­ing to Al-Akhbar. The news­pa­per did not said if this is Dawa Party’s offi­cial posi­tion or not:

Haider Al-Ibadi mem­ber of Maliki’s Dawa Party crit­sized Tal­a­bani deci­sion ask­ing: Who gave the right to Tal­a­bani to be the guardian of the constitution?

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On the Kurds and Kirkuk

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