Maliki sacked the negotiation team

Break­ing news reported few hours ago on Al-Sharqiya TV, Maliki sacked the whole Iraqi SOFA nego­ti­a­tion team includ­ing the head of the team “Al-Hamoud”.

Also there are rumors [denied by Maliki’s spokesman Al-Dabagh] says that SOFA issue is trans­ferred from For­eign Min­is­ter Zebari to the national secu­rity adviser Muwaf­faq Al-Rubaie.

Among the new team there is Maliki’s Bureau Chief and mem­ber of Dawa party Tariq Najam.

Inter­est­ing arti­cle from Kuwati news­pa­per AL-Qabs cor­re­spon­dent in Bagh­dad, he answers everybody’s ques­tion about the con­flict­ing state­ments between the Iraqi offi­cials and the Americans.

It seems to be that the Amer­i­can admin­is­tra­tion is deny­ing every state­ment issued by the Iraqi offi­cials. The Iraqi street made a mock­ery of the Iraqi gov­ern­ment about these con­flict­ing statements.

The Gov­ern­ment claims the abil­ity to main­tain secu­rity and sta­bil­ity (this is cir­cu­lates among the Iraqi cit­i­zens) — So why they do not agree with the occu­pa­tion on a timetable under which Iraq is lib­er­ated from for­eign domination?

This ques­tion has become a con­tin­u­ing pres­sure on Maliki’s gov­ern­ment and its allies in the polit­i­cal arena. it was impor­tant for gov­ern­ment to pump some reas­sur­ance among the Iraqi peo­ple to calm down the sit­u­a­tion. Of course, this is a polit­i­cal fraud accord­ing to the Amer­i­can negotiator.

Yes­ter­day, I met an Amer­i­can advi­sor works in the Green Zone, and I asked him a direct question:

Do you think that the occu­pa­tion author­ity in Iraq ready to sched­ule a with­drawal timetable in the agreement?

He replied: This com­pletely wrong. The Amer­i­can army will not with­draw from Iraq and will remain in mul­ti­ple forms… Iraqi offi­cials are now the most peo­ple on earth need the occu­py­ing forces.