U.S. — Iraqi troops at the Syrian border

There are more evi­dence today on what I said yes­ter­day that polit­i­cal blocs in Iraq are using the Syria — Iraq cri­sis to dis­tance them­selves and iso­late Maliki.

Jabir Hab­bib Jabir, mem­ber of the UIA For­eign Rela­tions Com­mit­tee in the par­lia­ment rejected Maliki’s attempts to pres­sure Syria with the Inter­na­tional Court, point­ing out to the dif­fi­culty of the choice which will be very costly and can take years to achieve anything.

Sadrists MP Maha Al-Duri, blames the Amer­i­cans say­ing they are behind the cri­sis. AL-Duri refers to Arti­cle 27 in SOFA which says that the US forces should take the suit­able mea­sure­ments if Iraq sov­er­eignty threat­ened by ter­ror­ists actions, which gives the Amer­i­cans enough rea­sons to attack Syria.

Not so crazy idea accord­ing to Kuwaiti news­pa­per Al-Seyassah report­ing the following:

U.S. and Iraqi troops sent to bor­der Iraq — Syria in Rabia area, Nin­eveh province. There are abnor­mal move­ments of the Amer­i­can heli­copters, sim­i­lar sce­nar­i­oof of the U.S. raid on Syria’s Abu Kamal region occurred in Octo­ber of last year could be repeated.

Maybe that explains why Syria briefed the for­eign diplo­mats on the cri­sis with Iraq as a pre­ven­tive diplo­macy for future agenda behind the esca­la­tion of the crisis.