Monthly Archives: January 2010

The Supreme Council: split or deviation?

We can fil­ter Ammar Al-Hakim’s “sched­uled vis­its” in Lebanon by sim­ply click­ing on the “vis­its” tab on the Supreme Council’s web­site and we are inter­ested only in his meet­ings with Lebanese offi­cials. Ammar Al-Hakim meets: -) Walid Jum­blatt, Sheikh Akil … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraq’s 2010 budget; the missing pages

Despite the pres­ence of the bud­get assigned to the three pres­i­den­tial enti­ties [pres­i­dent, Prime Min­is­ter and par­lia­ment] in the index, scrolling through the released doc­u­ment of 2010 bud­get [Ara­bic, link cor­rected], pages and tables from chap­ter 4  are miss­ing. Accord­ing … Con­tinue read­ing

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Al-Sadr’s blunt attack on Maliki

Inter­est­ing words from Petraeus, attack­ing the Jus­tice and Account­abil­ity in his inter­view on the Times: … the account­abil­ity and jus­tice com­mis­sion that replaced the for­mer de-Baathification com­mit­tee, those lead­ers seem­ingly hijack­ing the new organ­i­sa­tion with­out hav­ing been con­firmed as the lead­er­ship … Con­tinue read­ing

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Joe Biden’s deal with Maliki

Joe Biden’s deal with Maliki, accord­ing to sources, reported on Emi­rate news­pa­per Al-Khaleej, said that the U.S. offered to allow the exe­cu­tion of Chem­i­cal Ali (and the other detainees) in exchange for the can­cel (bet­ter to say: to ease the … Con­tinue read­ing

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After secret negotiations, Houthis leader offer a peace initiative

Abdul Malik Al-Houthi in his new ini­tia­tive to end the armed con­fronta­tion with Saudi Ara­bia [Ara­bic Audio] — The new ini­tia­tive came as a result of secret nego­ti­a­tions between the Yemeni Gov. and the Houthis to end the war and … Con­tinue read­ing

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Current crisis: The U.S., the coalitions and the positions

The title of the Al-Sharq Al-Awsat : Ban the Baathists: sup­ported by the Shi­ite major­ity .. rejected by the Sunni Arabs .. reser­va­tion by the Kurds, says more about the U.S. triple-standards pol­icy in Iraq: 1) Neu­tral­ity with the Kurds … Con­tinue read­ing

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Candidates exclusion, and the recent talks between the U.S. and Baath Party

This is one of the U.S. vs Iran sce­nario, and the recent talks between the U.S. and Baath Party is the miss­ing link behind the polit­i­cal cri­sis. His visit to Iraq aimed to ease the ten­sion cre­ated after the exclu­sion … Con­tinue read­ing

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Article 7 – sharing the blames

In his appear­ance on Al-Hurra TV, head of the “J and A” Ali Al-Lami explained one con­tro­ver­sial issue of the use of Article(7) of the con­sti­tu­tion to imple­ment the exclu­sion of the can­di­dates deci­sion, say­ing the fol­low­ing: We [JA Com­mis­sion] … Con­tinue read­ing

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Houthis leader video clip

As said before Houthis leader Abdul Al-Malik Al-Houthi is not dead and not even injured (the poor guy, spent most of his time deny­ing the Yemeni press reports), and he popped up again today in video clip to ridicule the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Sadr vs Hakim again

armed] Iraqi resis­tance, his answer was: We appre­ci­ate the resis­tance in Lebanon and Pales­tine, but the prob­lem in Iraq, there is no clear sym­bols of this resis­tance. In Lebanon, for exam­ple, we find a rep­re­sen­ta­tive who speaks on behalf of … Con­tinue read­ing

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