Monthly Archives: March 2010

Negotiations between the two Shiite coalitions failed

Al-Hayat revealed today that Maliki him­self went to Tehran in secret visit to nego­ti­ate with INA (the Sadrists) and news­pa­per even revealed that Maliki offered to name another can­di­date for the PM post. Despite Al-Hayat report say­ing that Muq­tada Al-Sadr was … Con­tinue read­ing

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Foreign influences on the formation of a ruling coalition in Iraq

Min­utes after the offi­cial announce­ment of elec­tion results, Allawi talked to his sup­port­ers say­ing the fol­low­ing: Iraq is ready to extend a hand of broth­er­hood to all neigh­bor­ing coun­tries, (such as) Syria, Saudi Ara­bia, Turkey, Iran, Jor­dan and Kuwait, on … Con­tinue read­ing

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The new government and the bumpy road ahead

First and just reported, a sur­prise announce­ment: IHEC revealed today that three days before the elec­tion, IHEC received a deci­sion made by the Prime Min­is­ter him­self, in which he can­celed the deci­sions and the author­ity of the Jus­tice and Account­abil­ity … Con­tinue read­ing

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Last leaked results before the official announcement .. Update

Update .… Results and num­ber of seats are on every Ara­bic news­pa­per today, after leaked by Al-Quds Al-Arabi: — Al-Iraqiya 91 seats. — SoL 89 seats. — INA 71 seats. — Kur­dis­tan Coal. 41 seats. — Goran 8 setas. — Iraq Unity 4 seats. — Islamic … Con­tinue read­ing

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The Arab Summit and the U.S. chances to face Israel

The com­ing Arab Sum­mit will dis­cuss “saving-Al-Quds” as main issue and the first arti­cle on the table. A name sug­gested by Syria, who also wants to acti­vate a long died project of “boy­cott Israel”. This old project itself will lead … Con­tinue read­ing

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The U.S. stopped Maliki and the Sadrists enjoy his humiliation

Iraqi source revealed that the row about Allawi’s mother is raised by Ahmad Cha­l­abi (who is also related to Allawi through a maze of fam­ily social sys­tem) to reduce Allawi’s chances to run for Prime Min­is­ter post. The claim of Allawi’s … Con­tinue read­ing

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Qaddafi invites Hamas and the Iraqi resistance to the Arab Summit

Head of Al-Aqsa Study Cen­ter in Alge­ria accused PA pres­i­dent Mah­moud Abbas of coop­er­a­tion with the Israeli occu­pa­tion forces to silence the Pales­tin­ian resis­tance, and even to form a joined forces to fight against the resis­tance. Accu­sa­tions also con­firmed by … Con­tinue read­ing

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Count-fraud claims and threats multiply

In his new call to the IHEC to man­u­ally recount the votes, Maliki warned of vio­lence if the Com­mis­sion rejects his demand, but the real threat is the lan­guage he used in his state­ment. Look at this line: I, directly respon­si­ble … Con­tinue read­ing

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Saudi Arabia silence over Israeli violation against Al-Aqsa Mosque

Influ­en­tial Alger­ian cleric, and the sec­ond in the Islamic Sal­va­tion Front, Ali Bel­hadj crit­i­cized Saudi Ara­bia and Kingdom’s silence on Israel’s attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque, say­ing: The dis­as­ter comes from the Saudi regime, who uses the Saudi supreme cler­ics to … Con­tinue read­ing

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Coalitions, negotiations and the making of a king

At the time when Allawi announced When Haider Abadi, a lead­ing fig­ure in Maliki’s coali­tion announced the exis­tence of seri­ous talks with one of the main blocs of Al-Iraqiya Iraqi List to join a coali­tion headed by Nuri Al-Maliki to … Con­tinue read­ing

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