If so many deny the plan of top­ple Maliki, then there is some kind of truth in the story. Here is Al-Hayat with another “denial” report.

In his arti­cle on Qatari news­pa­per Al-Raya, Al-Rukabi describes the res­ig­na­tion of par­lia­ment speaker Al-Mashhadani as:

The fall of the autumn leafs in the Green Zone started with Al-Mashhadani, is the begin­ning of the fall of dif­fer­ent kind of leafs and prob­a­bly Maliki him­self next.

His rivals (for­mer allies) are plan­ning for his removal after two issues are confirmed:

1– Adopt­ing the oil and Gas law.

2– End Kirkuk cri­sis in way that sat­is­fies the Kur­dish leaders.

The “more leafs” argu­ment, also repeated on AL-Akhbar using “scape­goat” term saying:

In the debate about who will suc­ceed par­lia­ment speaker, Al-Mashhadani, it seems that there more “scape­goats” to follow.

Between the denial and the con­fir­ma­tion to top­ple Maliki, al-Dujaili wrote to Al-Qabas:

Between denial and con­fir­ma­tion, it seems that what hap­pened in “Dukan” [top­ple of Maliki dis­cus­sion among the polit­i­cal blocs] is closer to the truth with dif­fer­ent details, which means that the con­fronta­tion [among the polit­i­cal blocs] will con­tinue and polit­i­cal sit­u­a­tion will become more dangerous.

But notice that the writer added one more rea­son to post­pone Maliki’s removal saying:

The dif­fer­ences between Maliki and the Kurds on one hand, Maliki and the Supreme Coun­cil on the other hand still exist, but what delay from hap­pen­ing is that they do not have an alter­na­tive and the fear of the con­se­quences on the sec­tar­ian polit­i­cal system.

The politi­cians are using a denial lan­guage here and there is only to cover the embar­rass­ment of what has been revealed in Dukan.

P.S.

Also read Badger’s “Mean­while”.