“Iraqiya List” tiny split

Pathetic arti­cle on the NYTimes. The way Al-Iraqiya-trio describe them­selves as “nation­al­ists, sec­u­lar and lib­er­als” is a sad indi­ca­tion shows that they are out of touch with the cur­rent world and regional developments.

In less than 24 hours after I sug­gested the divi­sion of Al-Iraqiya List, frag­men­ta­tion already started to take place in Dhi Qar, 14 Al-Iraqiya mem­bers in the south­ern Province announce their split from the mother List and from Allawi’s “Al-Wifaq Al-Watani” bloc, and other Iraqiya mem­bers will fol­low accord­ing to the “State of Law” mem­ber Ali Al-Shalah.

Maliki still nav­i­gates his way among the Iraqi polit­i­cal poles and suc­cess­fully mar­gin­alised the Sadrists after he man­aged to pull the Asa’ib Al-Haq to his side, the Prime Min­is­ter con­tin­ued to crash Al-Iraqiya win­ning the Sunni Anbar tribes announced that he is ready to impale­ment all their demands (most likely, it will never hap­pen, but this promise is enough to silence them for at least a year or more).