It seems that the Awakening Councils do not consider themselves included in the Maliki’s plan to incorporate the councils in the police and security service because they are already a political bloc as reported on Aswat Al-Iraq.
Interesting what member of the Accordance Front “Al-Jubori” revealed that 20% of the Awakenings are included in the merging program and he asks:
Is this percentage reflective the social communities or the percentage of the Awakening members and in this case what are the criteria to identify this percentage?
Questions Maliki’s government promises of incorporating the Awakening Council in the security services are empty promises:
Political manoeuvres in order to confront the pressure and wining time.
Sadirst speaker Abdul Hadi Al-Mahmadawi told the public today in the Friday prayer ceremony [no transcript available, only Arabic audio of the speech] :
We reject the merging of the Awakening Council within the Iraqi security forces and make them decide the fate of Iraqis…
He links the “Awakening Councils” with the armed groups.
They were the enemies of the Iraqis yesterday.
Awakening should be screened before its members are officially integrated into the Iraqi security establishment. Last week during Friday prayers a Sadrist speaker rejected the integration of the Awakening into the Iraq security services, according toRoads to Iraq. In the case of any broader internal conflict, would the largely Sunni Awaking Councils become a formidable adversary to the Sadrists Mahdi militia? Is this perhaps the real cause for concern of the Sadrists today, especially if the Awakening Councils
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