Two fast news first:

- Al-Hakim’s sud­den pan-Arabism in Jor­dan in his meet­ing with the Prime Min­is­ter “Al-Dahabi” and King Abdul­lah. Ammar Al-Hakim said this two times: The prob­lem with Shi­ite in Iraq is not the sec­tarism but the ideology.

- For some unknown rea­son (or known if you think Saudi Ara­bia) Maliki’s visit to Cairo post­poned for the sec­ond time.

Shi­ite par­ties attack Hashimi

To prove my point “Hashimi’s pre­ven­tive deci­sion”, both Shi­ite coali­tions (INA and “State of Law”) attacked Hashimi, espe­cially after the report pub­lished today on Al-Sharq Al-Awsat says:

Hashimi sent a del­e­ga­tion to meet for­mer Iraqi Mil­i­tary offi­cer in Arab countries

For exam­ple, this what pub­lished on the “State of Law” website:

We used to see these tac­tics made by Hashimi to adver­tise and pro­mote him­self as the next leader and to obtain higher posi­tion and to gain more materiel benefits.

On the same web­site, there is a critic on Hashimi’s deci­sion to meet for­mer Iraqi mil­i­tary commanders:

By con­sult­ing for­mer mil­i­tary offi­cers, Hashimi bypassed the Prime Minister’s authority.

INA posi­tion is pre­sented by Burathanews, which uses Al-Sharq Al-Awsat report to crit­i­cize Hashimi:

A dan­ger­ous and mali­cious posi­tion made by Tariq al-Hashemi to send a del­e­ga­tion to Dam­as­cus, Amman and Cairo and other cap­i­tals, to meet with offi­cers and com­man­ders from the for­mer army. A deci­sion will effects the national security.

Signs of disagreement

First sign of dis­agree­ment within Maliki’s “State of Law” coali­tion is reported today by Ali Hatim Al-Suleiman Sec­re­tary Gen­eral of “Byariq Al-Iraq” bloc, who said:

Those who keep com­plain­ing about the return of the Ba’athists are started to sound like a bro­ken tape, the door should be open to the Baathists who do not have legal problems.

If the par­ties had their own agen­das to deal with the Baathists, then half of our peo­ple [Anbar] were Baathists.

And about the same words also said by Abu Risha.

Maliki’s last minute tactics

To increase his elec­tion chances, Maliki is using “last min­utes” achieve­ments tac­tics weeks before the election.

The exe­cu­tion of the mem­bers of the for­mer regime is set at the end of Decem­ber (two weeks before the election).

Maliki also tried to send a pri­vate jet to the top Iraqi poet in exile ask­ing him to return to Iraq, but Al-Nawab refused say­ing I will never return to Iraq as long as the coun­try under occupation.

But the biggest scan­dal was the dis­solve of the “Iraqi Foot­ball Asso­ci­a­tion”, the cri­sis in details (if any­body inter­ested) is very political.

Two for­mer top foot­ballers, Hus­sein Saiid (head of IFA) and Ahmad Radhi (head of the sport com­mit­tee in the par­lia­ment) are from Sunni back­ground. Dawa Party and namely Maliki’s spokesman Al-Dabagh eyed and harassed IFA for a long time.

Dabagh brought an ex-goalkeeper “Ra’ad Hamoudi” (Shi­ite) to head the IFA (in the image here with Maliki a week ago), while in real­ity Dabagh will run the Asso­ci­a­tion behind the screen.

The prob­lem reached its peak few days ago Iraq won 3 goals against Saudi Ara­bia in some unknown foot­ball com­pe­ti­tion. Maliki, Dabagh and Dawa Party saw this as a missed pub­lic­ity and pro­pa­ganda chance just few weeks before the election.

Funny is that after FIFA released 72 hour ulti­ma­tum threat, the State of Law web­site said that Hus­sein Saiid (elected head of IFA) receives bribes from FIFA.