Monthly Archives: August 2009

Maliki’s “immoral” demand from Syria

There is a rea­son behind Bashar Al-Assad call­ing the Iraqi charges as “immoral”. Accord­ing to Fate­hoon Sources: Maliki wants Syria to deal with Baathists the same way Syria dealt with the leader of the PKK Abdul­lah Ocalan . Maliki’s demand … Con­tinue read­ing

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Washington’s angry message to Maliki asking Turkey to mediate before Iran

Kuwaiti Alwatan noticed the fol­low­ing: After a meet­ing behind closed doors held by the Iraqi secu­rity and defense com­mit­tee in the par­lia­ment, Iraqi Defense Min­is­ter Abdul-Qader al-Obeidi came out and accused Syria of being behind the Wednesday’s blasts in Bagh­dad. … Con­tinue read­ing

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How the Supreme Council will choose its new leader?

Some­thing needs to be explained first, unlike other polit­i­cal (blocs, par­ties, trends, move­ments), the Supreme Coun­cil estab­lished an “unwritten-law” which includes: Not mov­ing its leadership’s ambi­tion to gov­ern­men­tal posi­tions, but the aim is to push the party’s high-ranked mem­bers to … Con­tinue read­ing

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Saudi Arabia involvement in Yemen

Houthis in Yemen released videos of Saudi involve­ment in the recent fights in North Yemen (this video for exam­ple shows a truck with a Saudi num­ber­plate deserted by the Yemeni army). The Houthis also released images of dead civil­ians killed … Con­tinue read­ing

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Basra celebrates Al-Hakim’s death

For three days Al-Hakim’s dead body is tour­ing around Iraq (in Islam the deads must be buried as soon as pos­si­ble), but the orga­niz­ers excluded Basra from this tour with­out any expla­na­tions. The only expla­na­tion was pro­vided by Ali­raqnews say­ing … Con­tinue read­ing

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Saudi Arabia – Al-Qaeda relationship takes a new turn

Saudi Ara­bia – Al-Qaeda rela­tion­ship takes a new turn after Al-Qaeda attack on Prince Mohammed bin Nayef. Before AL-Qaeda avoided direct attacks on the Saudi Royal Fam­ily, AL-Qaeda crit­i­cized the sys­tem ask­ing for polit­i­cal and reli­gious reform. But with this new … Con­tinue read­ing

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FBI wants “Hezbollah cell” files from Egypt

Sources told Egypt­ian web­site “7th day” that the FBI has asked the Egypt­ian author­i­ties through diplo­matic chan­nels, to han­dover “the Hezbol­lah cell” files to the Amer­i­can author­i­ties. The sources added that the request came from the FBI office in the … Con­tinue read­ing

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The power balance in Iraqi political arena after Al-Hakim’s death

Some Blogs believe that Al-Hakim’s death will boosts Maliki’s chances against the new Shi­ites Coali­tion, but if you dig deep you will find that this is another big blow to Maliki’s (and the oth­ers) chances. Some­thing we must not for­get … Con­tinue read­ing

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A report compiled by Syria will change Hariri assassination case

Ara­bic web­site Albawaba learned that the Syr­ian gov­ern­ment had com­pil­ing a very impor­tant report on Hariri assas­si­na­tion will be pre­sented to the UN Secu­rity Coun­cil dur­ing the next few days. The source pointed out that the report to be sub­mit­ted by … Con­tinue read­ing

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Is this the end of Maliki-era?

If last Wednesday’s explo­sion wasn’t the last nail in Mailki’s political-carrier then the announce­ment of the new coali­tion with­out Maliki’s Dawa Party is for sure the last one. Al-Hayat won­ders if the talks between ISCI and Maliki Dawa Party can achieve … Con­tinue read­ing

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