Secu­rity

Min­utes after today’s series explo­sions, and to gain the inter­na­tional sup­port for an inter­na­tional tri­bunal, AL-Dabag reac­tion was the explo­sion tar­geted a con­fer­ence of for­eign ambas­sadors in Man­soor Hotel, while in real­ity the bomb exploded kilo­me­ters away from the Hotel.

Al-Bolani’s reac­tion “less is more”, he accused the same groups who car­ried out 19-August bomb­ing with being behind today’s bomb­ing (19-August Bolani accused polit­i­cal par­ties in the government).

One other reac­tion came from Salih Al-Mutlaq say­ing that polit­i­cal blocs in the gov­ern­ment are behind the explo­sions, and they all accuse the Ba’ath Party. Mut­laq also sup­ports the par­tic­i­pa­tion of Ba’ath Party in the polit­i­cal process by say­ing: If the Ba’athists allowed to par­tic­i­pate right now, they can achieve at least 40 seats in the Parliament.

To under stand the today’s explo­sions, we just need to remem­ber what hap­pened in the last two days:

The Sadrists for exam­ple, after long silence, they spoiled Maliki’s “vic­to­ri­ous” return from U.S. by tim­ing the call to dis­pel US Forces from Iraq.

The Sadrists and the Maliki’s oppo­si­tions under­stand that the Amer­i­cans will sup­port Maliki’s sec­ond term and they are doing there best to give some tiny vic­tory cred­its from secretly solv­ing the cri­sis of Kirkuk with the Kurds “Wash­ing­ton pres­sures the Kurds to bypass Kirkuk cri­sis”, with­draw Iraq from the UN’s Arti­cle seven, to inter­na­tion­al­iz­ing Iraq — Syria crisis.

Pol­i­tics

- This should be “Break­ing News” if it’s true: Al-Wasat reported that Maliki met with Ammar Al-Hakim to inform him about the results of his visit to the US. Maliki expressed his will­ing­ness to join INA coali­tion regard­less the Prime Min­is­ter post in the com­ing gov­ern­ment (this is the only report about this meeting).

- Al-Hayat reported that the mech­a­nism, cri­te­ria, and the process of the Sadrists pre-election par­lia­ment can­di­dates are still a mys­tery. Sadrists lead­ers deny reports that Muq­tada Al-Sadr imposed his own quota. One inter­est­ing thing in the reports; Most of the Sadrists lead­ers show some doubts that the same Sadrists mem­bers cur­rently in the Par­lia­ment will be in the next Parliament.

- Qatari news­pa­per Al-Arab reported that Allawi’s “Iraqi List”, Salih Al-Mutlaq’s “Iraqi Dia­logue Front”, Osama Al-Najafi’s “Iraqy­oon”, Rafi’ Al-Isawi’s “Iraqi National Future” all met with Hashimi to dis­cus the posi­bil­ity of form­ing a joined coalition.

- News­abah reported that Bolani’s new formed coali­tion “Iraqi Unity” is dis­cussing a coali­tion with Isawi and Mutlaq.

Join the above two dots, and the con­clu­sion is Bolani to form a coali­tion with Allawi, and that is con­firmed by Al-Hayat today.