Today report on Kirkuk

At least one news site reported that Turkey put more troops on the bor­ders of Iraq, prepar­ing any sit­u­a­tion devel­op­ment in Kirkuk [not con­firmed yet].

As for the Amer­i­cans, they keep them­selves behind the screen, but the clos­est hint came from Mah­mud Oth­man mem­ber of the Kur­dish alliance said:

The American-side exer­cises great pres­sure on the par­lia­men­tary blocs to reach a com­pro­mise agreement.

For sure, the Amer­i­cans inter­ested to solve the prob­lem as fast as pos­si­ble and that is before the end of Bush pres­i­den­tial term.

Inter­est­ing to read that the Islamic Party asked for more time to study the the pre­vi­ous deci­sion but the more inter­est­ing is that the party is try­ing to pull itself away from the Kurds. Al Samra’i told Radio Sawa:

Our agree­ment with the Kurds doesn’t reached an alliance stage.

At least we know what hap­pened today in the par­lia­ment and why the nego­ti­a­tions failed, Elaph reported the following:

[At today sit­ting] 11 polit­i­cal blocs man­aged to rally 110 MP’s, threat­ened to reject the “Pres­i­den­tial Coun­cil” rejection.

Ques­tion:

Who is the biggest loser in Kirkuk crisis?

Have a guess [not the Kurds].