First, you need to check this out, Ammar Hakim calls for a secular state … Dec 10 209
Second, Maliki’s Dawa Party candidate Walid Al-Hali failed to obtain the required votes to head the renewed De-Baathification committee “Accountability and Justice” (all other candidates also failed).
That wasn’t very much a crisis as I thought, described by AL-Sharqiya TV as: “Maliki’s hearing session was more a speech than questioning the Prime Minister”. The first leak came as “breaking news” on the TV this morning saying: “Maliki told the parliament that explosions and violence will continues even after the election”.
The MPs asked Maliki 14 questions only, but MP Omar Al-Haigil said: “Most MPs were silent, and the questions made by the few MPs are too soft on Maliki”
To put everything he said in short (BBC reported few also):
Security is everybody’s responsibility including the parliament, … Budgets for the security services suffer from lack of money and this is what preventing security institutions from doing their job in a professional manner, … There is no chief of intelligence service, because of the political interference and each political party wants to dominate this device, … Awakening Councils also require money and the government can not afford it, .…. The issue of security services need to be cleaned from militias members loyal to different political parties, so that we can build national security forces, …