Roads to Iraq

There is a good coverage on Alert Net “The End of Iraq’s “Awakening”?” about the reality of Maliki’s government promise to merge the Awakening councils in the Iraqi security forces but there are few things must be added, not reported in the above link:

AL-Sharq Al-Awsat contacted the Awakening members and the report gives us much wider view about what exactly going on. The leader of the Sahwa in Tarmiya neighborhood said the following:

The integration [of awakening members] is only talk, there nothing happened in reality. It is not what the people think that the members of the Awakening started to work in police stations. All what happened is that 20% of the Awakenings nominated to be integrated with the police and asked them to go back home, not even receiving police uniforms.

Jordanian writer Muhammad Abu Rumman wrote his research on the Awakening Councils “After the Awakening questions”, and why the Americans dismantled and transferred the Awakening Council to the Iraqi government:

The U.S. position from the Awakening Councils raises a question about the U.S. interests from this “coup” against one effective tool managed to stabilize the security in Iraq.

There are two answers for this question, one of them is that the Awakening had really finished its mission and achieved its security objective in Sunni areas.

The other answer is circulating among Sunnis is that there is an arrangement between the Iraqi government and the U.S. military; The Mehdi Army in exchange for the Awakening dismantling.