The situation after the IHEC and the Appeal Court decisions

Hours after the rare defense shown by the Iraqi prime min­is­ter Al-Maliki to defend Saudi Ara­bia and Syria say­ing that he don’t believe that the two coun­tries are sup­port­ing ter­ror­ism and Al-Qaeda, he received a harsh attack from the head of the Saudi intel­li­gence chief Prince Turki Al-Faisal, accus­ing Maliki of try­ing to steal the recent Iraqi elections.

Con­sid­ered a retreat in his polit­i­cal rhetoric towards the Saudi king­dom and Syria, Maliki failed to under­stand Al-Faisal’s ges­ture. Show­ing a good will, the Saudi intel­li­gence pro­vided the Iraqi secu­rity with intel­li­gence infor­ma­tion about the for­mer Al-Qaeda lead­ers (which led to the death of both men) to con­vince Maliki to drop his demand for a sec­ond prime min­is­ter term. When Maliki failed to under­stand the mes­sage, the Saudis revived Al-Qaeda with two new leaders.

Infor­ma­tion about the new Al-Qaeda leader revealed by Saudi funded news­pa­per Al-Hayat:

Nick­name “Nasser al-Din Allah Abu Suleiman”, a Moroc­can with Syr­ian nation­al­ity, grad­u­ated from a Russ­ian uni­ver­sity and speaks Ara­bic, French, Russ­ian and Per­sian with Afghan accent.

Al-Quds Al-Arabi added today:

His main task will be to re-join Al-Qeda forces once again and attracts new ele­ments to join the orga­ni­za­tion tak­ing advan­tage of cur­rent con­di­tions in Iraq, the col­lapse of the polit­i­cal process, and the return of sec­tar­ian divi­sions to its for­mer image, a lineup high­lighted by the recent elec­tions, and the polit­i­cal polarization.

INA raises the level of the its demands

After rely­ing on the votes recount results and the exclu­sion of nine can­di­dates by the De-Baathification Com­mis­sion to change his nego­ti­a­tion posi­tion increas­ing his seats with at least 20, final results, announced by the IHEC and the Appeal Court put Al-Maliki in a much more crit­i­cal corner.

Also a slight boost for Allawi, who started to argue that the fed­eral Court’s deci­sion is not con­sti­tu­tional because the court is formed before the constitution.

Maliki guar­an­teed the sup­port of the Kurds and he even put the Kurds demands as con­di­tions for talks with Allawi. Maliki approved Talabani’s pres­i­dency of a sec­ond term, reach­ing a set­tle­ment of the oil dis­pute in Kirkuk, and a promise to resolve the issue of the Pesh­merga in the dis­puted areas. All this forced INA to keep Al-Iraqiya intact.