The U.S. angry with Maliki

My pre­vi­ous post is explained by Al-Hayat today, noted that the Amer­i­can del­e­ga­tion met with Kurds with­out vis­it­ing Bagh­dad or any other Iraqi official:

An Iraqi source told the news­pa­per that the U.S. is angry with Maliki’s gov­ern­ment because of the rejec­tion of the Amer­i­can answer on the Iraqi demands [regard­ing SOFA].

The news­pa­per added that the visit meant to dis­cuss the obsta­cles pre­vent SOFA sign­ing. One of the most major obsta­cles is Sis­tani as reported today in a state­ment issued today by the Iraqi ambas­sador in Iran saying:

The accord of the supreme-references is a nec­es­sary con­di­tion to sign secu­rity agreement.

Ignor­ing Maliki and meet­ing the Kur­dish lead­ers is a move explained by Akhbar-Alkhaleej head­line as: “Will the Kurds suc­ceed in get­ting rid of Maliki as they did with Jaa­fari before him?”

No need for an expert to say that the Amer­i­cans started to use Maliki’s con­flict with the Kurds as a warn­ing or prepa­ra­tions to out­set Maliki’s government.

update

Aswat Al-Iraq just reported that Negro­ponte will dis­cuss SOFA with Maliki tomor­row [or threat Maliki tomorrow??].