Iraq and the Arab summit

I am not sure if peo­ple noticed the impor­tance of state­ment released by the Sadrists Al-Araji few days ago, in which he said:

Sadrists do not want to link between the Bahrain issue and the Arab sum­mit because the peo­ple Bahrain are free to decide for themselves.

This comes as a big blow to Ahmad Chalabi’s efforts on the Bahrain issue, which has taken a sec­tar­ian dimen­sion. Cha­l­abi threat­ened that Iraq will inter­vene in Bahrain.

It seemed that the National Alliance (state law and the National Coali­tion) are no longer able to deal with the Arab sum­mit cri­sis and this started a test of power between Maliki and Nujaifi. Par­lia­ment Speaker Osama Nujaifi took the ini­tia­tive, and has stepped up his con­tacts in recent days in order to cre­ate the appro­pri­ate atmos­phere to hold the Arab sum­mit sched­uled in Bagh­dad next month.

But despite Al-Nujaifi efforts and accord­ing to leaked infor­ma­tion on Zebari’s dis­cus­sions with the Arab for­eign min­is­ters; that Bagh­dad wants to apol­o­gize to Man­ama about the rough lan­guage used by the Bahraini gov­ern­ment in deal­ing with demon­stra­tions and protests which is the rea­son behind the GCC coun­tries call to post­pone the summit.

To solve this dead­lock away from embar­rass­ment, the leak referred that the Arab for­eign min­is­ters are dis­cussing one of the two options, the first is to post­pone the Arab sum­mit, with­out spec­i­fy­ing a new date. The sec­ond is can­cel the Arab sum­mit for this year (prob­a­bly the first option, the Arab sum­mit to be held in March next year).