Linking topics: Iraq’s arrests and Federalism, US media false story and why Libya created its own Sistani?

If the autonomous deci­sion made by the Salah-Al-Din Province right or wrong con­sti­tu­tion­ally, the big sur­prise which shocked Maliki and his gov­ern­ment is the huge pub­lic turn out to demon­strate for the sup­port of this deci­sion, unex­pected even by the Salah-Al-Din Rul­ing Coun­cil and other Sunni Provinces.

The truth is that there is no con­nec­tion between the Libya’s interim Prime Min­is­ter “Mah­moud Jib­ril” visit to Bagh­dad and the recent wave of Baathists arrests in Iraq. The NYTimes story is based on an Iraqi Inter­net web­site pub­lished this on 25-10-2011 [image above].

The main rea­son behind Jibril’s visit is to learn Iraq’s “expe­ri­ence” with the Gov­ern­ing Coun­cil, fed­er­al­ism, regions and decen­tral­iza­tion, and how to estab­lish mili­tias and inte­grate them into the army and secu­rity organ­i­sa­tions, how to import mer­ce­nar­ies under the slo­gan of secu­rity ser­vices, media and elec­toral com­mis­sion con­trol … and other Paul Bremer’s rules. Other sub­jects such as how to use of reli­gion as weapon to pro­tect politicians.

The first thing Jib­ril did when he returned to Libya is the cre­ation of the supreme reli­gious post called “The Mufti of Libya” appoint­ing a cleric “Sheikh Sadiq Al-Ghariani” to be a “Sistani-like” fig­ure. The first fatwa released by the “Libyan Sis­tani” is: The prayer on Gaddafi body is reli­giously ille­git­i­mate, and must be buried in an unknown loca­tion so that his grave not to be a shrine” [video of Al-Ghariani’s fatwa] .