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.