Monthly Archives: November 2010

Iraq’s politics made easy: Who is Turkey’s man in the new government?

Some update first: Despite the con­fu­sion about the De-Baathfication Law reported by Aljazeera, It seems Maliki man­aged to attract Mut­laq his side, but he allied him­self with Maliki, as reported by Kuwaiti media today (image above) A deal between Maliki … Con­tinue read­ing

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Winners, losers and lost momentum

From the many arti­cles I read today (mostly on the west­ern media), all came to one con­clu­sion: Maliki is the win­ner, and the Kurds lost heav­ily with one pres­i­den­tial office. In my opin­ion it is the other way around, Kurds … Con­tinue read­ing

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The creation of the Sectarian Maliki(te) Republic of Iraq

Maliki chal­lenged his inter­nal and exter­nal rivals threat­ened that he will top­ple them all tomor­row in the par­lia­ment, con­sid­er­ing tomor­row, as not only the date of the for­ma­tion of his gov­ern­ment but also the cre­ation of the Iraqi state, which … Con­tinue read­ing

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Scenes from Irbil meeting – going to Saudi Arabia

Update Allawi’s with­drawal and Hashimi’s absence from today’s meet­ing in Bagh­dad con­firm what I wrote below yes­ter­day. Another update Al-Hakim and Adil Abd Al-Mahdi both with­draw from the meet­ing. 1– The emer­gence of a sharp line between those who want … Con­tinue read­ing

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The Saudi initiative has succeeded to split Maliki’s coalition allies

Kur­dis­tan Alliance and the Sadrists to sup­port its ini­tia­tive (which is called by the Arab media “Iraqi-Taif). A new sit­u­a­tion will con­fuse the “State of Law” coali­tion and Maliki, who wants to form a polit­i­cal major­ity gov­ern­ment and not a … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraq Church Standoff, is “Al-Qaeda“‘s answer to Pope Benedict’s synod statement

We don’t need to men­tion the lies of the Iraqi-American forces, start­ing by the “Bagh­dad Oper­a­tions Com­mand” claimed that the num­ber of the hostages are no more than twenty peo­ple, while the hostages con­tacted the media by mobile phones from … Con­tinue read­ing

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