Monthly Archives: January 2010

Mutlaq: the politician, the victim and the sectarian

not long time ago, an Iraq spe­cial­ist in body lan­guage, wrote a piece try­ing to ana­lyze the Iraqi politi­cians body move­ments, she referred to this video clip ana­lyz­ing Mutlaq’s move­ments, and this is what she said: His big dis­ap­point­ment can be … Con­tinue read­ing

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The truth behind Yemeni clerics jihad warning

The Yemeni regime is try­ing to esca­late the fight with the Houthis to take an inter­na­tion­al­ize the con­flict, and asso­ci­at­ing the Houthis among the ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tions, a demand not approved by the United States, which puts Al Qaeda’s as first … Con­tinue read­ing

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New alliances and a new political scene is emerging

No doubt that Maliki’s chances for a sec­ond term are in decline if not close to zero, take for exam­ple today’s report on Al-Hayat: Wash­ing­ton invited Barzani, Abdul Mahdi and Hashimi for talks with Obama and Biden (all the three … Con­tinue read­ing

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Breathing new life into the “South-Federate” project

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 … Con­tinue read­ing

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Yemen and the U.S. intervention

Weird is that the Yemeni gov­ern­ment reject the west­ern pres­sures to resolve its cri­sis inter­nal and hold talks with the oppo­si­tion, at the same time offered to hold con­di­tional talks with Al-Qaeda. The Yemeni army killed Al-Qaeda leader Abdul­lah Al-Mehdar. … Con­tinue read­ing

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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 … Con­tinue read­ing

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The Mossad, CIA and Al-Balawi

Embar­rassed by its role in coop­er­at­ing with CIA, Jor­da­ni­ans started to ques­tion their government’s role in help­ing the CIA in Afghanistan. With the death of the Jor­dan­ian Al-Qaeda leader Mah­moud Zay­dan, the Jor­dan­ian gov­ern­ment allowed the fam­ily of the deceased … Con­tinue read­ing

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Dawa Party: Time to replace Maliki with another candidate

Inter­est­ing speech made by Maliki yes­ter­day say­ing that the Par­lia­ment should be elected, and led by one or two polit­i­cal bloc. This call is directly rejected by many polit­i­cal par­ties (among them Al-Bolani cur­rent Inte­rior Min­is­ter), refused to imple­ment the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraqi election facing threats of boycott

The evi­dence used by the Jus­tice and Accoun­tibil­ity Com­mit­tee against Al-Mutlaq, as Al-Adeeb one of the lead­ers of Dawa Party told Al-Mada: Al-Mutlaq issued state­ments say­ing that there will be 40 Ba’ath mem­bers in the next par­lia­ment. Strange and sur­prise … Con­tinue read­ing

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U.S. — Baath party vs Al-Qaeda in Yemen

Panic and chaos in Maliki gov­ern­ment (and Iran) after the news of U.S. works with Ba’ath mem­bers to fight Al-Qaeda in Yemen. Remov­ing Salih Al-Mutlaq is to block the Saudis — U.S. plan to restore the Ba’athists through Salih Al-Mutlaq “gate” … Con­tinue read­ing

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