- Jor­dan­ian Ammon News quoted an Iraqi news­pa­per “Al-Rai” [not online] say­ing that the Jor­dan­ian gov­ern­ment wants to deport Iraqi Sunni oppo­si­tion leader and head of the Asso­ci­a­tion of Mus­lim Schol­ars Harith Al-Dhari:

Informed source revealed that a meet­ing took place recently between a Jor­dan­ian offi­cial well-known among the Iraqi polit­i­cal fig­ures, and an Iraqi per­son lives in Amman — Jordanian.

The Jor­dan­ian offi­cial informed the Iraqi that a deci­sion will be taken soon to deport Al-Dhari because his pres­ence [in Jor­dan] causes an embar­rass­ment for the Jor­dan­ian gov­ern­ment, espe­cially his rela­tions with the var­i­ous Iraqi resis­tance groups.

- Al-Hayat con­firmed what reported yes­ter­day, that Sistani’s state­ment embar­rassed the Maliki’s gov­ern­ment and forced spokesman AL-Dabagh to denounce the “pos­i­tive” Amer­i­can amend­ments regard­ing SOFA.

A source told the news­pa­per that Sistani’s posi­tion may strengthen the government’s posi­tion and will not nec­es­sar­ily be an embarrassment.

To maneu­ver around these con­flict­ing reported and embar­rass­ment, Green Zone news­pa­per Al-Sabaah reported that the Iraqi gov­ern­ment par­tially agreed on the secu­rity agreement

Wast­ing more time, Al-Hayat reported that Iraqi gov­ern­ment asked for more time for inter­nal dis­cus­sions and legal con­sults. The “more time” accord­ing to Finance Min­is­ter is: Sat­ur­day or Sunday.

Even Barzani, ques­tioned the pos­si­bil­ity of sign­ing the agree­ment this year in his press con­fer­ence today in Irbil.

- For­mer Prime Min­is­ter All­wai told Kuwaiti news­pa­per AL-Jareeda today:

I was in Wash­ing­ton and met with Democ­rats and Repub­li­cans. The democ­rats show more under­stand­ing and the will­ing­ness to dis­cuss the regional prob­lems and Iraq.