More scenes, statements and speculations

I men­tioned this few days ago, the nego­ti­a­tions between the Sadrists and the Amer­i­cans for the release of two Sadr Trend lead­ers. Muq­tada Al-Sadr released a let­ter for­bids his fol­low­ers from any nego­ti­a­tions with the Amer­i­cans saying:

Those who are nego­ti­at­ing with the Amer­i­cans, do not rep­re­sent me or the Iraqi resistance.

Inter­est­ing part of the let­ter, he revealed that they [the Amer­i­cans] promised to released the leaders.

But from another link we learned that the Amer­i­cans are delay­ing the release of the two lead­ers, claim­ing that their reha­bil­i­ta­tion pro­gram to change their “ide­ol­ogy” is not fin­ished yet, which is accord­ing to the news site are only excuses.

Since there are no results yet, we are gath­er­ing state­ments and spec­u­la­tions from MPs and polit­i­cal blocs, but the weird­est is this one came from Supreme Council:

All the news­pa­pers head­lines con­firmed that the Supreme Coun­cil did very badly in the first results and here for exam­ple Supreme Coun­cil MP Al-Shara’ admits the bad results in Basra.

The Supreme Coun­cil released a state­mentSupreme Council’s affil­i­ated bloc led by Ammar Al-Hakim] in the provin­cial Coun­cils sets say­ing they man­aged to obtain the major­ity of the votes (first and sec­ond) in 11 provinces.

Sadrists woman MP Gofran AL-Sa’idi said

Al-Qabas con­firmed the above infor­ma­tion say­ing that the Sadrists came sec­ond in Basra after Maliki [and the report tells us who Shiltag Aboud is, say­ing he is an Ara­bic lan­guage aca­d­e­mic].

Some Basra intel­lec­tu­als say that Maliki’s Dawa Party is grad­u­ally reform itself, from a reli­gious party into a new “lib­eral” party doesn’t fol­low the Shi­ite rules or the high-clerics orders.