Monthly Archives: October 2010

How to exclude the Sunnis? Maliki’s path to the Prime Minister office

Cur­rent devel­op­ment on the Kur­dis­tan Alliance-Iraqiya List pushed Maliki to post­pone his inter­view with the offi­cial Iraqi TV two days giv­ing the incum­bent Prime Min­is­ter the time to adjust his words, accord­ing to the fail­ure of Allawi and Adil Abdul-Mahdi … Con­tinue read­ing

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The “Round-Table” results

It became clear that each bloc has its own under­stand­ing of the mean­ing of the “Round Table”. Al-Iraqiya sees this table as an oppor­tu­nity to form “all coali­tions” partnership-government con­tains all coali­tions, includ­ing the “State of Law”, but with­out the … Con­tinue read­ing

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The “round table” meeting

The Fed­eral Court Before the Fed­eral Court’s deci­sion to can­cel the Parliament’s open ses­sion, Lebanese news­pa­per Al-Mustaqbal expected this order say­ing: Maliki Pres­sure on the par­lia­men­tary blocs to speed up the solu­tion of the polit­i­cal cri­sis to coin­cide with rapid changes … Con­tinue read­ing

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Wikileaks documents, in the Arab media

Syria Al-Baath news­pa­per op-ed: From Hillary Clin­ton to the Head of the NATO Anders Ras­mussen … In the his­tory of racism, there are no racists more than those peo­ple, O, with the excep­tion of the fas­cist ter­ror­ist entity of Israel. From … Con­tinue read­ing

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Wikileaks documents, the first reactions in Iraq

With each polit­i­cal party, coali­tion or bloc tries to inter­pret the doc­u­ments accord­ing to its inter­ests, Iraqi Inte­rior Min­is­ter Jawad al-Bolani in a very state­ment announced that the Min­istry of the Inte­rior will ini­ti­ate an imme­di­ate inves­ti­ga­tion of infor­ma­tion on … Con­tinue read­ing

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pro-Maliki” front (Iran-Syria-US) vs. “pro-Allawi” front (Egypt-Saudi Arabia)

Even after Dam­as­cus opened its door to Maliki, giv­ing the incum­bent Prime Min­is­ter a wider range of options against his rivals, the Syr­i­ans are more inter­ested in Maliki’s “Banias-Kirkuk pipeline” than Maliki him­self. Sources revealed that Maliki’s visit to Syria, … Con­tinue read­ing

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Sunnis pressured Allawi to drop “his” demand for Iraq’s cabinet

It seems that west­ern media just dis­cov­ered that Al-Iraqiya dropped its demand, in favor of Adil Abdul-Mahdi as a can­di­date for the prime Min­is­ter office. The agree­ment among Al-Iraqiya, Supreme Coun­cil and the Kurds is that to nom­i­nate Abdul-Mahdi as … Con­tinue read­ing

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State of Law” and Maliki’s “divide the coali­tions” strategy

Since the nom­i­na­tion of Maliki as the NA (- Al-Hakim’s Shahid Al-Mihrab Orga­ni­za­tion) can­di­date for the Prime Min­is­ter office, the incum­bent Prime Min­is­ter raised the slo­gan of his “com­ing” term as (Secu­rity and Recon­struc­tion). The “State of Law” instructs many … Con­tinue read­ing

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The Supreme Coun­cil after Maliki’s nomination.

First, I want to update you with this [Ara­bic text above]: Few hours ago, I received an infor­ma­tion from a Sadrists activist in Lebanon say­ing the fol­low­ing: Within a cou­ple of days, Sayyed Muq­tada Al-Sadr will issue a state­ment, impose … Con­tinue read­ing

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Maliki’s nomination, Iranian pressure or a secret deal?

We can start with the last update; NA chose Maliki as INA’s can­di­date for the Prime Min­is­ter post with the absence of Islamic Supreme Coun­cil and the “Fad­hila Party” (which means 1 and 1/2 National Alliance). The inter­est­ing part of … Con­tinue read­ing

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