Cat and mouse game between Maliki and Hakim explains the state­ment issued by Abbas Al-Biyati (close to Maliki) saying:

Maliki never said in his state­ment that he invited the Ba’ath Party for reconciliation.

But leave the offi­cial reports, the unof­fi­cial sce­nario is totally dif­fer­ent, as reported by Akhbar-Al-Khaleej say­ing that Maliki’s del­e­ga­tions are in secret nego­ti­a­tions with both fac­tions of Ba’ath Party (Al-Duri-faction and Moham­mad Younis-faction), as for why these nego­ti­a­tions kept secret:

Maliki wants to con­tain all the oppo­si­tion abroad, but the Gov­ern­ment did not want to announce the first moves wait­ing for a major suc­cesses by the national reconciliation.

Arab media reported yesterday’s Al-Shorouk report, Al-Arab said:

Some think that this plan is science-fiction, oth­ers think that this is a very log­i­cal to bal­ance the polit­i­cal power (Shi­ites vs Sun­nis and Islamists vs Sec­u­lars) before the with­drawal of the US forces.

Also notice the left side­bar, the news­pa­per ran a poll asks the following:

What do you think of the tim­ing of the talk about the US wants to restore the Ba’ath Party and Iraqi government’s rec­on­cil­i­a­tion initiative?

- US coup (against the cur­rent Iraqi gov­ern­ment) 36.7%

- Vic­tory for the (Iraqi) resis­tance 43.9

- A real rec­on­cil­i­a­tion 19.4

This morn­ing the US coup option was ahead, later in the evening the vic­tory option scored higher.

4 Comments

  1. Layla Anwar March 12th, 2009

    Sorry but I believe none of that…if there is any “rec­on­cil­i­a­tion” at all, it will be with the SYRIAN fac­tion of the Baath, in other words, the Baathists co-opted by SYRIA and there has been Iraqi Baathists co-opted by Syria.
    Another cheap ploy from the pup­pet, Syria and Iran to shuf­fle the cards and reduce the Resis­tance to a bunch of Sell outs.
  2. annie March 13th, 2009

    badger’s new post w/AlHayat this morning

    The Baath Party, Izzat Al-Douri sec­tion, issued a state­ment on its web­site yes­ter­day dis­miss­ing the recent Maliki invi­ta­tions: These state­ments, the party said, “and what they included by way of decep­tion and dis­tor­sions do not amount to any­thing, and their aim is to cre­ate a clamor respect­ing what is going on on the ground in Iraq by way of jihadi inter­ac­tion between the peo­ple and their resis­tance, and the Baathist vanguard”.
  3. LadyBird March 13th, 2009

    Thank you Annie: This is the state­ment released by Ba’ath Party in Arabic:

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