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
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
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
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
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
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