What is behind Maliki sudden readiness to compromise?
It seems that Al-Maliki decided to impose his grip on Iraq policy, showing his willingness to compromise on the sovereignty of the country intending to sign the U.S. - Iraq security agreement.
In his interview with the Associated Press yesterday, Al-Maliki offered to help the United States to emerge from its financial crisis:
[Al-Maliki] noted with gratitude the high cost paid by American taxpayers, the U.S. military and the forces of other coalition members to secure Iraq’s freedom over the past five years.
He admitted that he is ready to give up the right of Iraqi justice to prosecute American soldiers [which is a French idea as we reported here]
Why this sudden change in Maliki’s position?
In his article on swissinfo, Iraqi writer Najah Muhammad Ali discusses if the “coup” rumors circuliting in Iraq recently based on facts or not? [We will back to this article in later post] he said the following:
During the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice last visit to Iraq, she managed to hinder an agreement between the Kurds and the Supreme Council to topple Al-Maliki.
Rice, after a meeting with the Kurds and members of the Supreme Council and the Islamic Party, who agreed to vote no-confidence against Maliki, rejected this position and convinced them to abandon this choice.
Maliki is left with two options: either to approve SOFA with the American conditions or he will keep hearing about a coming a military coup to overthrow his government.
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