Monthly Archives: May 2010

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 … Con­tinue read­ing

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Allawi’s lost momentum, and Maliki’s comeback

There are some mis-information report­ing the state­ment of the Sadrists spokesman Salah Al-Ubaidi. News agen­cies reported that the Sadrists lift the ban on Maliki, while Al-Ubaidi said: Maliki’s nom­i­na­tion in the new coali­tion is a pri­vate mat­ter to his party, … Con­tinue read­ing

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Allawi-Maliki meeting postponed once again

Meme­brs of Allawi’s Al-Iraqiya List said yes­ter­day, that the List will announce a “sur­prise” news dur­ing the next two days, after Allawi-Maliki meet­ing (which is post­poned or unlikely will hap­pen). Until now, there is now announce­ment made by Al-Iraqiya, but … Con­tinue read­ing

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The map of the Iraqi political conflict and the level of the U.S. involvement

We note that the Iraqi par­lia­men­tary coali­tions, large and small are formed by sub-blocs, and the sub-blocs are formed by dif­fer­ent par­ties, polit­i­cal and social (streams, move­ments .…etc). There­fore it is dif­fi­cult to unite these groups within a spe­cific place. Recent … Con­tinue read­ing

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Maliki’s parallel negotiations after the failure to change the votes results

Until few days ago, those who are close to Maliki man­aged to con­vince the Prime Min­is­ter that IHEC made mis­takes with about 750 thou­sand votes (20 seats), and his best option is to insist on re-counting the votes. Today after … Con­tinue read­ing

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Two ruling coalitions with two different stories

Two sources with two dif­fer­ent sto­ries: First– Egypt­ian Al-Sharouk news­pa­per pub­lished by Egypt­ian cor­po­rate group that includes the ven­er­a­ble pub­lish­ing house Dar Al-Shorouk (orig­i­nal pub­lisher of the nov­els of Nagib Mah­fouz), so it is not a fly-by-night, which makes it … Con­tinue read­ing

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A new fragile agreement between the two Shiite coalitions

A report released today that Joe Biden will visit Iraq soon to solve the cur­rent cri­sis. Accord­ing to Kuwaiti Al-Qabas, Biden objects the for­ma­tion of the gov­ern­ment by Allawi, Maliki and Ja’afari (lead­ers who already have been in this post … Con­tinue read­ing

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More details on the spy cell in Kuwait

More details started to emerge on the spy-cell in Kuwait. Accord­ing to the Kuwaiti news­pa­per Al-Jarida that the cell is active in Kuwait for more than a year, also: Kuwait already began its secret diplo­matic con­tacts with the Iran­ian side on … Con­tinue read­ing

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The assassination of the British ambassador in Yemen, revisited “the Russian view”

The US embassy in Yemen has advised its staff to avoid Moven­pick Hotel fre­quented by West­ern­ers, five days after the failed attack on the British Ambas­sador in Sana’a. We said ear­lier that the attack is planned by Yemeni gov­ern­ment to … Con­tinue read­ing

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