Roads to Iraq

This is reported on Saudi TV Al-Arabiya and then by the foreign media "Iraq sends extra police to Syrian border", the strange thing is that they don't report the denial of the Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman: The Iraqi Defense Ministry denies deploying any additional troops to the border with Syria, the Syrian government reduced its forces on the Syrian-Iraqi border is ...

Reliable sources revealed to Al-Hayat about a warning letter sent by Washington to Baghdad listed the consequences of not signing the draft security agreement. The letter contains three topics: No security agreement means: Security and stability risks U.S. troops failure to offer help (to defeat the enemies of Iraq), which means the halt of (counter-terrorism operations, Al-Qaida, the special groups and other threats, ...

This is a good "helicopter -view" of the Iraqi political scene regarding SOFA: - The Kurdish nationalist parties publicly announced their total support to SOFA, and attacked SOFA's opposition political blocs. The Kurdish Islamic parties, stayed silent. - Parties allied under the United Iraqi Alliance exchanged different roles. The leaders of the Supreme Council shared various positions from the security agreement. Between ...

This is very important and not reported be the foreign media. Reported today on the Green Zone newspaper Sabaah that Maliki ordered to activate his previous decision of halting all the raids on Sadr followers [which means Mahdi Army] and conditionally release of Sadr followers who are in prisons [the condition here is prisoners have to swear to not to ...

Al-Arabiya reported that Syria reduced its military forces and border guards on the Syria - Iraq border [cutting diplomatic ties with Iraq also], but what I heard [from my own sources] is that Syria withdrew all its forces from the border [which means giving the green light to armed groups to cross to Iraq]. Syrian ambassador in Washington Imad Mustafa told ...

The Americans came with a "genius" idea to pass SOFA, according to this report on Al-Akhbar. The U.S. thought maybe if we change the name, then Iraqi parliament will swallow this trick and pass the agreement. The suggestions are two names: 1) Agreement of withdrawal. 2) Temporary agreement. Clash of wills This was the common point in two articles published today on ...

If you thought that Arab all Arab newspapers condemned the U.S. raid in Syria then read this Saudi newspaper editorial “The raid on Albuqmal [Syria] an open door to the new reality of Syrian“ which says that Syria is the one to blamed on this raid: Condemning the U.S. "aggression" on Syria, will not prevent them from repeating it again and ...

Why this sudden "positive" reaction from Maliki's government to open the deadlock regarding SOFA? If you didn't see Ammar Al-Hakim's interview with Reuters saying: We think there is still a chance for consultations or negotiations by the Iraqi and American delegations. Which reflects his worries about the recent U.S. threats, not only the ones counted by McClatchy "U.S. lists services it'll cut off ...

A letter published on the Lebanese newspaper An-nahar 23-10-2002 [still in the newspaper's archive, $10 to purchase]. Although the U.S. administration was happy to hear that Shiite-parties are ready to cooperate to topple Saddam, the U.S. rejected this offer at the beginning, and to be adopted later by Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon as the only option to control Iraq. The ...

Chalabi told Al-Hayat today that one article in the security agreement gives the U.S. forces to use their military bases in Iraq to attack other countries. Chalabi said that point 4 from article 5 says that both sides [Iraq, U.S.] have the right to defend themselves, and he added that this is a very flexible point. According to the Kurdish newspaper Hawlati, ...