Maliki admits the difficulty to approve the agreement, parliament spokesman leads the opposition

Hilar­i­ous reac­tion reported today from Zebari say­ing that the task of the par­lia­ment is to accept SOFA and not to dis­cuss it.

AL-Quds Al-Arabi revealed today that par­lia­ment spokesman “Al-Mashhadani” is lead­ing SOFA oppo­si­tion from his house in Baghdad.

Alliances of var­i­ous polit­i­cal blocs (Allawi, the Sadirsts and Ba’athists from out­side Iraq) want to fail the vot­ing on the secu­rity agree­ment in parliament.

The source said that there is a sense of the dif­fi­culty of pass­ing the agree­ment in par­lia­ment, the effort right now is to extend the U.S. troops pres­ence in the UN –Secu­rity Council.

Maliki acknowl­edged the dif­fi­culty today in his press con­fer­ence say­ing that his gov­ern­ment is pre­pared to go to the UN – Secu­rity Coun­cil to extend the U.S. presence.

There is no way to nego­ti­ate again with the Amer­i­cans about SOFA.

Maliki said that he don’t want to take the SOFA’s respon­si­bil­ity alone.

As Al-Hayat report said that Sunni MPs will decide the fate of the secu­rity agree­ment, Al-Dujaili on Kuwaiti news­pa­per Al-Qabas explains more, say­ing that SOFA will pass but the polit­i­cal dis­or­der will increase.

The writer splits the Iraqi par­lia­ment into three cat­e­gories: 1) The pro-SOFA. 2) The oppo­si­tion 3) The undecided.

Both par­ties are try­ing to attract the votes of the unde­cided, who are wor­ried wait­ing for which way the wind blows, they are more inter­ested in their per­sonal benefits.

But Kur­dish MP Fouad Ma’soum told Al-Khaleej news­pa­per that all those who reject SOFA are seek­ing a deal for a big­ger role in the government.

Iraqi secu­rity source on Al-Watanabout the new brigade