Rats shit for Iraqi refugees in Syria, Maliki’s confrontation with the Kurds started again

We know Iran posi­tion from SOFA, and yes­ter­day we knew Syria’s posi­tion from the same pact, but what about Saudi Arabia?

This is the op-ed appeared today on the offi­cial Saudi news­pa­per Al-Watan:

The Amer­i­can insis­tence and pres­sure on the Iraqi side to pass this agree­ment raises ques­tions about the U.S. agenda to secure long-term pres­ence in Iraq, and the unde­clared Washington’s ambi­tions in the region.

In this com­plex sit­u­a­tion a ques­tion remains; if the Iraqi peo­ple had ful­fill the U.S. administration’s desire and agreed to sign this secu­rity agree­ment, will it be enough to achieve polit­i­cal sta­bil­ity in the coun­try and pro­vide secu­rity stability?

All efforts have been made by the Amer­i­can Admin­is­tra­tion to get out from the Iraqi prob­lem ended in low results. In this sit­u­a­tion of impos­ing the draft secu­rity agree­ment, there is a real fear that the pos­si­bil­ity to return to square one, bomb­ings, assas­si­na­tions and sui­cide bombings.

- Reported on Syr­ian news­pa­per Al-Watan say­ing that the Syr­ian cus­toms author­ity rejected a ship­ment came from “

Lab­o­ra­tory analy­sis shoes the pres­ence of the fol­low­ing mate­ri­als in the rice:

1– The pres­ence of dead insects.
2– The pres­ence of mice and rat’s feces.
3– The pres­ence of rot­ting and decom­posed rice in some bags.

- Still a vague posi­tion from SOFA, Sis­tani said today that he will wait until the last minute to say the final word.

Sayyid Sis­tani would pro­hibit any dam­age to Iraq’s sovereignty.

- Al-Watan says that Sis­tani waits for the Iraqi par­lia­ment to approve the secu­rity agree­ment, but he didn’t men­tion the any pub­lic ref­er­en­dum to accept or reject the agreement.

The news­pa­per also reported that The United Iraqi Alliance and the Kur­dish Coali­tion also rejected the idea of putting SOFA in a referendum.

- A new con­fronta­tion just started between Maliki and the Kurds for two rea­sons: 1) Maliki asked for more author­i­ties, admit­ting the mis­takes made in writ­ing the con­sti­tu­tion [full speech in Ara­bicthere is even a new law that bans Kurdish-language teach­ing in Kirkuk’s schools].

These issues raised con­cern among the Kurds which caused quar­rel between Maliki and his Kurd deputy Barham Salih who crit­i­cized Maliki’s one party dom­i­na­tion policy.

Another crit­i­cism

Voice of Rus­sia inter­viewed a Russ­ian expert in Iraq affairs called Vik­tor Raevski, saying:

The U.S. is using the Kur­dish issue to pres­sure the Iraqi polit­i­cal blocs. The Amer­i­cans know that most of the Sun­nis and Shi­ites are against the U.S. pres­ence in their coun­try, unlike the Kurds who count on Wash­ing­ton support.

Also, must not for­get that Kur­dis­tan is rich with oil and the U.S. is still push toward pass­ing the new oil law, if adopted, that will gives oil com­pa­nies the lion share.