First, just reported that all the arrested are released, but we are still lost between the con­fus­ing state­ments about the alleged-coup attempt, but I will try to cover as much reports as possible.

Sardrist news site Nahrain­net said that there are no evi­dence of con­nec­tion between the arrested offi­cers and the Amer­i­cans [see Bad­ger for fur­ther details on this nahrain­net]. Sadrists leader Liwa’a Simaisim sees this con­nec­tion telling Al-Akhbar:

We are a coun­try under occu­pa­tion and we don’t believe of such [coup] attempt, unless it is sup­ported by the occu­pa­tion or by or the occu­pa­tion wants directly to change the government.

There are very inter­est­ing details on Awan, say­ing the arrests came because of the dif­fer­ences among Ba’ath Party two-wings [ridiculed by AL-Qauds Al-Arabi say­ing: “the ministry(ies) are dom­i­nated by the pow­er­ful Shi­ites par­ties and their mili­tias] also Ba’ath denied any con­nec­tion with the arrested group.

The news­pa­per explains the rea­son why the arrests started by Inte­rior Ministry.

Before you read this, there is some­thing needs to be explained:

I don’t know about other coun­tries but in Iraq there are two dif­fer­ent kind of police: 1) Anti-crime Police [nor­mal police] 2) Traf­fic Police. Both fall under the Inte­rior Min­istry but there are two dif­fer­ent institutions.

Awan’s stroy goes as follow:

A group will blow up the Inte­rior Min­istry coop­er­at­ing with the (traf­fic) police who will bloc all the streets lead to the Min­istry, while mil­i­tary unites takeover the government’s offices.

This is the plan as reported by Awan quot­ing anony­mous sources, but for me it sounds a bit immature-plan.