A combination made in hell, Sardists + Chalabi = More exclusions

If you need to under­stand the rea­sons behind the new deci­sion made by the “Jus­tice and Account­abil­ity” of the exclu­sion of at least 376 secu­rity offi­cers among them 20 high rank offi­cers (such as the heads of police in Basra, Wasat and Muthana provinces), you need to dive deep in few tiny events (to pre­vent any chance for Mut­laq to return — see pre­vi­ous post, “J and A” trans­ferred his files to the Crim­i­nal Court for involve­ment with killing Iraqis) .

Ammar Al-Hakim and his Supreme Coun­cil started to call for a “Unity Gov­ern­ment” after the elec­tion. The expected obsta­cle against this call are the Sadrists, who do not want to form any alliances or “Unity Gov­ern­ment” mar­gin­al­izes their influ­ence. We also have Al-Chalabi who sees this elec­tion as his last chance to make a come back after being idle for the last five years.

A com­bi­na­tion made in hell, the Sardists + Al-Chalabi. After fol­low­ing the Sadrists instruc­tions to go for­ward with the De-Baathification process, the leader of Iraqi National Con­gress Ahmad Cha­l­abi in his elec­tion cam­paign first steps, made a rare visit to Al-Hurriya Shi’ite slum neigh­bor­hood of west­ern Bagh­dad and the sec­ond Sadrists strong­hold after “Sadr-City”.

In his speech among the pub­lic, Cha­l­abi said:

I will defend the exis­tence of Jaish Al-Mehdi (JAM), and I will give JAM all the cred­its for defend­ing Baghdad’s Shi­ites from Al Qaeda attacks.

With­out JAM, whom the gov­ern­ment clas­si­fied its mem­bers as out­laws and fought against them in Bagh­dad, Basra and Ama­rah as the most promi­nent sec­tar­ian vio­lence, not a sin­gle Shi’ite man would remain in Baghdad.

With the above speech, Cha­l­abi made his point say­ing: “We will not accept any Gov. imposed on us by the Amer­i­cans”.

Ahmad Al-Chalabi decided to “join” the Sadrists offer­ing 376 police & secu­rity offi­cers as “mem­ber­ship fees”.

My two expec­ta­tions:

- The Supreme Coun­cil will start to act against Cha­l­abi, if they real wants a “Unity Gov.” with Allawi.

- Allawi will start to pull the Sadrists away from Cha­l­abi, but that is eas­ier said than done and he will pay a heavy price to achieve this.