Chaos after a false bomb plot and an assassination

We start with this funny issue:

I reported yes­ter­day that the par­lia­ment appointed seven judges to replace the seven unap­proved can­di­dates in the jus­tice and Account­abil­ity Com­mit­tee to make the final deci­sion in the ban of the 15 polit­i­cal blocs and decide if the if the Committee’s orders are legal or not. It seems that three of the judges are included in the ban by the Com­mit­tee itself (which means that the whole issue entered a close loop).

No bombs plot and no explo­sive vehi­cles, the gov­ern­ment wanted to dis­play its mil­i­tary mus­cles to show the pub­lic that the secu­rity ser­vices are ready to face any “imag­i­nary” coup attempt.

Al-Sharqiya says that the num­ber of the arrests made today is not an evi­dence of a real bomb­ing plot, because these arrests are hap­pens on a daily bases.

The above shows the increas­ing fears of the reli­gious par­ties from the grow­ing nation­al­ists move­ments, which expected to dom­i­nate the next par­lia­ment after the dis­as­trous fail­ure of the sec­tar­ian project.

The whole chaos in Bagh­dad today started with a break­ing news pub­lished on sec­tar­ian web­site Buratha News run by Jalal al-Saghir who is very close to the Supreme Coun­cil say­ing that the cause of the cur­fews, and the sud­den secu­rity oper­a­tions is that Salih Al-Mutlaq joined by the Baathists to lead a coup in Khark side of the river, adding that the coup attempt failed and Al-Mutlaq is killed.

The rumors started to spread even among the police and check points, peo­ple switched TV sets to Al-Babliya satel­lite TV chan­nel (owned by Mut­laq) to see that the sta­tion in broad­cast­ing Quran only. In a break­ing news, Al-Babliya denied the coup and the assas­si­na­tion attempt.

On the devel­op­ment of Mutlaq’s ban by the Jus­tice and Account­abil­ity Com­mit­tee, a group of Iraqi busi­ness­men went to the Qatari cap­i­tal Doha on Sun­day to meet with Qatari offi­cials and push them to inter­na­tion­al­ize the crisis.

The same Com­mit­tee, released a ban on 70 mem­bers of Bolani’s “Unity of Iraq” and 7 mem­bers of Maliki’s “State of Law” (all of them Sun­nis, prob­a­bly to remove the doubts that the PM is part of the plot, I will write soon about the banned polit­i­cal blocs).

The Supreme Coun­cil and INA, released the names of their can­di­dates to lead the com­ing gov­ern­ment, Adel Abdul Mahdi and Bayan Jabr Soulagh.