Inten­sive com­ments from Sis­tani yes­ter­day called for polit­i­cal accor­dance about Kirkuk and his rep­re­sen­ta­tive Al-Karbalai called to speed up the agree­ment on the provin­cial elec­tion law made Maliki’s spokesman Al-Dabagh pub­licly crit­i­cized the supreme-clerics involve­ment in pol­i­tics saying:

We appre­ci­ate and respect the role of the reli­gious author­ity, but we believe that the elec­tion is a civil mat­ter, and the reli­gious author­ity must be a ref­er­ence of reli­gion matters.

What Dabagh said is a very seri­ous issue and for the Supreme-clerics this is very near to blas­phemy but I am sure Al-Dabagh is irri­tated by Talabani’s deputy the Kurds Barham Salih’s meet­ing with Sis­tani yes­ter­day [see this image Salih’s aide dis­trib­utes money among the poor in Najaf].

That explains Maliki sud­den visit to Kar­bala and his meet­ing with Sistani’s rep­re­sen­ta­tive Al-Karbali.

He also crit­i­cized Paul Bremer’s deci­sions saying:

The for­mer U.S. admin­is­tra­tor Paul Bre­mer, has com­mit­ted many mis­takes no less dan­ger­ous than these com­mit­ted by terrorism.