Total political chaos

His danc­ing days are over, Husaam Al-Azawi (in the image) leader of the Awak­en­ing Coun­cils in Diyala Province has been arrested

Akhbar Al-Arab’s analy­sis is the best I read:

The rise of Maliki’s pop­u­lar­ity dur­ing the last provin­cial elec­tions at the expense of other Shi­ite groups, the gov­ern­ment started to pre­view its [pre­vi­ous] posi­tions accord­ing to the recent phase.

What is hap­pen­ing now!! – an attempt to encir­cle the Awak­en­ing Coun­cils and the arrest of its lead­ers is an early [post­poned] bat­tle before the vic­tory of the elec­tion glim­mer starts to fade away.

As for the final conclusion:

After the Iraqi gov­ern­ment and the US mil­i­tary forces hav­ing aban­doned their pre­vi­ous alliances, it seems that the com­ing phase will wit­ness a new kind of tension.

It is clear that there will be a new kind of fight in the Iraqi arena, which may lead to trig­ger Al-Qaeda mem­bers to return once again tak­ing advan­tage of the gap caused by the polit­i­cal situation.

From the cam­paign against the Awak­en­ings to the rec­on­cil­i­a­tion, Iraqi writer Amjad Al-Katib says that this is a total con­fu­sion and lack of polit­i­cal experience:

When the prime min­is­ter of any coun­try takes a deci­sion, he would cal­cu­late the effects, the reac­tions and mobi­liza­tion of the nec­es­sary polit­i­cal sup­port in advance to ensure the suc­cess of his move.

The Prime Min­is­ter announced his ini­tia­tive of rec­on­cil­i­a­tion with Ba’ath Party, at the first reac­tion from the oppo­si­tion side, Maliki imme­di­ately with­draw his announcement.

How­ever, it was a total chaos, once he announced that there will be no rec­on­cil­i­a­tion with Ba’ath Party, later he announced that the mean­ing of the rec­on­cil­i­a­tion is with the Ba’athists who have been forced to join the party and third announce­ment is the rec­on­cil­i­a­tion with Ba’athists as individuals.