Kirkuk deadlock continues

Despite the spe­cial treat­ment in visit to Wash­ing­ton, it seems that the Amer­i­cans insist to make Maliki’s life more mis­er­able than it already is. Influ­en­tial Kur­dish MP Mah­moud Uth­man said today the following:

Kurds have received a green light from the U.S. embassy to include Kirkuk to the Kur­dis­tan region if the par­lia­ment reaches a (chau­vin­ist) deci­sion giv­ing Kirkuk a spe­cial status.

I am not sure if this is true, if not then the US embassy should release a state­ment that explains its position.

But there is one pro­posal made by Adel Abdul-Mahdi and not widely men­tioned by the media (the Kur­dish Alliance already rejected it). Mahdi’s pro­posal is to ran the elec­tions in Kirkuk on sched­ule accord­ing to the two elec­toral two con­stituen­cies. One con­stituency will include the 2004 reg­istry (and based on the reg­u­lar growth), and the sec­ond con­stituency will adopt the votes of the trans­ferred Kur­dish families.

After the elec­tion a Com­mit­tee will recheck the sec­ond record, if proved that half of those who were in the sec­ond record are res­i­dents of Kirkuk, then seats will be added to the Kirkuk province Council.

Again the above solu­tion is rejected by the Kurds, but in gen­eral the pro­posal is not so bad, kind of mix between all other proposals.

The other inter­est­ing thing reported on Azza­man today:

One of the active INA mem­bers “Jalal AL-Din Al-Saghir on his web­site burathanews is spear­head­ing all the attacks on Maliki.