Iraq’s reconciliation and Syria – US improving relation

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The report goes on say­ing that the US noticed Al-Duri’s suc­cess coop­er­at­ing with Saudi Ara­bia, Syria and Egypt in the for­ma­tion of the Awak­en­ing Coun­cil to fight Al-Qaeda.

Some inter­est­ing part in the report says that the US wants to revive the pan-Arabism – at least to attract sym­pa­thy with the idea – as the last resort to counter the Iran­ian influ­ence on Arab coun­tries and Arab-Shiites.

Crit­i­cized by the Sadrists say­ing that both Maliki’s Dawa and Al-Hakim’s Supreme Coun­cil are in a race to talk with the Ba’athists, Al-Watan says that the Supreme Coun­cil offi­cially rejected the idea of rec­on­cil­i­a­tion with the Ba’athists (Al-Hakim needs to explain the recent meet­ing between Adil Abdul Mahdi and Moham­mad Sheikh Radhi leader of the Syr­ian fac­tion Ba’ath Party).

But we have one hint from Al-Malafpress say­ing that the last last meet­ing with Syr­ian fac­tion Ba’ath Party is the Supreme Council’s own ini­tia­tive to cre­ate con­fu­sion in Maliki’s plan of host­ing talks with the opposition.

As for Al-Rukabi’s talks with Maliki gov­ern­ment (read yesterday’s; Rec­on­cil­i­a­tion with­out rec­on­cil­i­a­tion), it was a sur­prise for me since Al-Rukabi is nearly unknown among Iraqi oppo­si­tions, but Al-Zubaidi’s report on Al-Akhbar explains fur­ther call­ing it “Al-Rukabi’s adventure”:

Sources con­nect Al-Rukabi’s ini­tia­tive and the pres­ence of the Ba’ath Party Syr­ian fac­tion with the improv­ing rela­tion between Syria and the US, oth­ers put it as part of Maliki – Al-Hakim competition.