Attempt to withdraw confidence from the Appeals Court, Al-Sadr’s condemnation statement

First, the deci­sion made by the Appeals Court is very clear say­ing post­pone JAC’s deci­sion and not “can­cel­la­tion” (image above is part of the decision).

Sec­ond, the elec­tion cam­paign offi­cially post­poned from 7 Feb to 12 Feb.

Third, I will bypass what is already reported by the news agencies.

It is pos­si­ble to say that the actual elec­tion cam­paign started yes­ter­day, because the Appeal Court deci­sion will seri­ously affect the elec­tion results, and there is one thing very clear; this will not be in the inter­est of the Prime Min­is­ter –Maliki, who for the past two months tried “cover” JAC’s res­o­lu­tions, and that will coast him his Sunni sup­port­ers and allies.

Revers­ing JAC’s deci­sion gave Allawi’s Al-Iraqiya List and its allies Salih Al-Mutlaq, Naseer Al-Ani and Tariq Al-Hashemi (who cooked the can­cel­la­tion of JAC deci­sion in Wash­ing­ton) a big boost to kick start the elec­tion at the expense of Maliki’s “State of Law”.

As for INA, inter­nal con­flicts among its blocs (in an inter­view pub­lished today on Al-Hayat Al-Ja’afari accused Ammar Al-Hakim of tak­ing deci­sions with­out con­sult­ing the coali­tion) reported on , inter­nal con­flicts among the Supreme Coun­cil mem­bers are started to weaken the Coalition.

All the (sec­tar­ian) Shi­ite par­ties are accus­ing Al-Hashemi of being behind this “plot”. News­pa­per Al-Khaleej explains Hashemi’s role saying:

After his meet­ing with Obama’s Admin­is­tra­tion, the Amer­i­cans were sure that the deci­sions of JAC will ignite the vio­lence once again and will delay the U.S. with­drawal from Iraq.

The next day after Obama — Ah-Hashemi meet­ing, Wash­ing­ton wired its ambas­sador in Bagh­dad, Christo­pher Hill, to inform the Iraqi gov­ern­ment that Obama admin­is­tra­tion will not rec­og­nize the results of the upcom­ing Iraqi elec­tions in case of imple­ment­ing JAC’s deci­sion of the exclu­sion of nearly 700 can­di­dates take place.

Among the jun­gle of accu­sa­tion, notice that Maliki and Dawa Party kept them­selves in the “safe side” tar­get­ing the U.S. ambas­sador Christo­pher Hill only, con­trary to other sec­tar­ian Shi­ite Par­ties who tar­geted Obama’s Admin­is­tra­tion, Joe Biden and the U.S. ambassador.

Par­lia­ment speaker Al-Samari explained denied that he called the par­lia­ment for a spe­cial meet­ing, say­ing that was Maliki’s pro­posal to dis­cuss the Appeals Court deci­sion. Al-Samari asked Maliki about the goal of the par­lia­ment set­ting, then he requested a meet­ing with the four pres­i­den­cies (the Pres­i­dent office, he Judi­cial Coun­cil, the Coun­cil of Min­is­ters and the Par­lia­ment). As for the rea­son behind his insis­tence on a meet­ing leaked reports on face­book says that Maliki wants to with­draw con­fi­dence from the Appeals Court.

But Sadrists MP Bahaa al-Araji went one step fur­ther say­ing that the deci­sion made by Amer­i­cans to can­cel JAC’s deci­sion is taken after a secret meet­ing with the Ba’ath Party.

Muq­tada Al-Sadr also joined the “party”, releas­ing a state­ment uses harsh words accus­ing the gov­ern­ment, directly attack­ing Dawa Party and inter­est­ingly Kur­dish Par­ties say­ing that their mis­man­age­ment of Iraq’s affairs led to the return of the Baath party.

Where is the Iraqi con­sti­tu­tion? .. Where are the free­dom and democ­racy promises? .. Where are the instruc­tions of our Supreme cler­ics? .. Where are the rules of the Iraqi offi­cial insti­tu­tions? … A gov­ern­ment who paves the way for the return of the Ba’ath Party, is a cursed government.

Also, words exchange between Abu Risha and (for­mer para-medic, recently Sheikh) Hameed Al-Hayis (Sunni mem­ber joined INA).

Abu Risha said that Ahmad Al-Chalabi should also included in the de-Baathification deci­sion, Al-Hayes crit­i­cized Abu Risha say­ing that he is con­nected to Jor­dan, Saudi Ara­bia and the Amer­i­can CIA.