I said that the whole chaos cre­ated yes­ter­day was a “dis­play its mil­i­tary mus­cles”, and this is what Azza­man wrote today quot­ing an anony­mous secu­rity source say­ing that the whole oper­a­tion is to test the loy­alty of the police and army unites.

Com­ment­ing on yesterday’s secu­rity mea­sures and raids, the gov­ern­ment said that the oper­a­tion and the “new” Baghdad’s secu­rity plan is suc­cess­ful ~ Per­sonal opin­ion, I expect a wave of bomb­ings soon.

Ammar Al-Hakim held meet­ings in Kur­dis­tan, nego­ti­ated the pos­si­bil­i­ties to form an alliance with the Kurds after the elec­tion, but the inter­est­ing news is that Al-Hakim said the “fed­er­ate” word again.

After long silence not men­tion­ing the Supreme Council’s “old” “South-Federate” project, and in a press con­fer­ence after meet­ing Barzani, Ammar AL-Hakim stressed on the need to form sev­eral provinces in Iraq beside the Kur­dis­tan region

Ammar Al-Hakim: “the for­ma­tion of “Fed­er­ates” to work par­al­lel with the gov­ern­ment will strengthen the national unity”. he added: “I’m very happy to see the Kur­dish exper­i­ment and this polit­i­cal spec­trum and I hope see this exper­i­ment to be imple­mented in the whole Iraqi frame­work.

Inter­est­ing to watch the Sadrists reac­tion on the above.