Crack inside the Kurdish coalition

Any­body noticed that all the inflam­ma­tory state­ments and com­ments about Kirkuk and Khaniqin cri­sis came from Barzani and his KDP party mem­bers? Tal­bani kept a law pro­file say­ing very lit­tle the whole time.

It seems that there are inter­nal Kur­dish dis­putes about the cri­sis accord­ing to albayyna-new news­pa­per quot­ing Kur­dish mag­a­zine “Awyna” [no inter­net web­site]:

After the esca­la­tion of the dis­putes between the Kur­dish lead­ers and the cen­tral gov­ern­ment, Jalal Tal­a­bani sent a secret let­ter to Maliki ask­ing him to find a quick solu­tion to the cri­sis say­ing: “There would be no prob­lems dam­age the his­tor­i­cal rela­tion­ship between the Shi­ites and Kurds, not before the fall of Sad­dam nei­ther after. We must not allow the cre­ation of any small problem.”

This inter­nal Kur­dish crack is con­firmed by Saudi news­pa­per Al-Watan saying:

Kur­dish sources said that Barzani showed his anger about the Iraqi pres­i­dent Jalal Talabani’s soft posi­tion towards Maliki’s actions of pre­vent­ing the increase of Pesh­merga mili­tia out­side Kur­dis­tan territory.

Accord­ing the sources Barzani con­tacted Tal­a­bani stress­ing on the impor­tance that the Pres­i­den­tial Coun­cil should pres­sure Maliki to take flex­i­ble posi­tion from the Kurds.

Away from both links above and this is from my own infor­ma­tion. Tal­a­bani stayed in the U.S. despite the end of his surgery is very upset from Barazani’s esca­la­tion because he don’t want to the Shi­ite coali­tion and not to loss Maliki because Tal­a­bani enjoys a greater role than his sym­bolic pres­i­den­tial role thanks to Maliki.