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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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