At a time when it was announced that the new Iraqi parliament to hold its first session next Monday, Iraqi sources predicted that the U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will arrive to Baghdad within the next two days, to discuss the U.S. Administration views of the preparation for the withdrawal of the U.S. forces from Iraq (there are also rumors say that Shiite coalitions will try to maneuver around Talabani’s decision and announce the first parliament session as “an open session for at least 40 days”). In the meantime, Iyad Allawi launched an attack on the Iraqi government for the first time using the word “Iraqi regime”, a term that now reflect the extent of the intersection with the Prime Minister …
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How Allawi managed to split the Shiite coalition!
The short version is in the first paragraph, for more detailed version read below. Information available says: next week Alawi will begin his negotiations with the political coalitions on the formation of the next government after the ratification of the election results. Signs of a rift within the Iraqi National Alliance (INA), because of the Supreme Council’s new direction to form an alliance with Al-Iraqiya, which is rejected by the rest of INA coalition. A split led by Ahmad Al-Chalabi (National Congress) joined by the Sadrists and the Virtue Party (Al-Fadhila) threatened to form an alliance with the State of Law, if the Supreme Council continues its Al-Iraqiya approach (Iran promised to appoint Chalabi as deputy-Prime Minister, if he succeeded convincing …
Egypt’s media attacks Turkey’s PM Erdogan
As I said yesterday, Arab rulers started to rally beside Israel attacking Turkey. “A strike of master”, that is the headline on one of Egypt’s newspapers (image above), describing the Egyptian president Mubarak position compared to the Turkish PM Erdogan’s position. Semi-official state run Egyptian Newspaper Algomhuria attacked the Turkish position on the flotilla massacre, saying that the Turkish reaction is weak and cold compared to the Egyptian position, which was brave, rejecting the American and Israeli dictates: The Turks used the Arabic rhetoric and words, which are same used frequently by Syria to threaten Israel … Erdogan is a voice only .. and he he can not do anything or he will face the U.S. anger. While President Mubarak’s …
Reading Erdogan’s speech, Arab rulers will cooperate with Israel to take the Turkish prime minister down.
There more words hidden behind Al-Quds Al-Arabi Op-ed, when Bari Attawan said: “Israel has no friends left, except its Arab friends.” Turkish Prime Minister position from Israel and Gaza, will raise an alarm by some of the disabled Arab rulers and they will start to cooperate with Israel against Turkey. They will raise the level of criticism of Turkey, and they will claim it is a Turkish Islamic sympathy with the Gaza and not for humanitarian reasons, and they will find many ways to beautify the ugly face of terrorists Zionists. Here are the evidence: On 29-05-2010 (two days before the the Israeli flotilla massacre), Russian news agency “Novosti” revealed the following: Barack Obama’s administration is working towards building a …
Iraqi political equation begins to take shape
Despite the ratification of the election results by the Supreme Court, the ongoing debate of the three presidential posts (parliament, Prime Minister, president) continues. For once, it has been confirmed as almost unanimously by the the three coalitions that Talabani should resume his position as president. This conformation came in speeches made by Maliki, Al-Hakim and Allawi’s representative in the Third Conference of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which started in Sulaymaniyah and continue for four days. The out come of the above agreement means that the coalitions will follow this equation: Kurds for the presidency of the state, Sunnis for parliament speaker and Shiites for the Prime Minister. There are even signs that Al-Iraqiya started to accept this equation, according …
Did the U.S. know in advance about the Israeli attack on Flotilla?
The good news revealed today, is that a new Gaza fleet will be on its way to break the embargo after six weeks. Turkish media released a document shows the “death-list” Israeli soldiers carried with them to execute certain activists, with photos and details attached beside the names. Palestinian newspaper Al-Manar: Netanyahu approved Flotilla’s attack plan before his departure to France on his way to Canada and the United States, the source said that the use of force, weapons and commandos unite had been deliberately planned in order to prevent other ships to come to the Gaza Strip. The Israeli leadership informed some countries in the region that it would use force to prevent the arrival of Flotilla to the Gaza, promised to …
Arab views on Obama’s “National Security Strategy”: Nothing changed
Contrary to the U.S. PR reports saying that Arabs are happy with Obama’s NSS, abolishing ‘war on terror’, focusing on Al-Qaeda. The reality is that Arabs see no change in this strategy, and here are the evidence: Here is a well known writer Nicola Nasser: Obama’s “National Security Strategy” published by the White House last week, is just a legal entitlement to the U.S. Congress required by each new administration and its president, a “non-binding” document … A new chapter of a media PR campaign launched by this administration to improve the image of the United States as part of psychological warfare to cover the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to increase its military buildup in the region to …
Israel may gas Flotilla activists
There are many updates and reports on the Algerian media about the the developments and the progress of Flotilla fleet, because there is an Algerian among the fleet. This is what Algerian newspaper Elkhabar reported today: Sources from the leadership of Flotilla that cargo ship “Rachel Corey” is deliberately sabotaged, and the same thing happened with the ship, which was supposed to transfer European parliamentarians from Cyprus, Greek. That is why the Fleet Command confirmed that Israel was able to penetrate the fleet. Echorouk reported: Israel may consider spraying the activists with gases before attacking the ships, but the activists said they will resist … Arab activists on board swore an oath to not sign anything and give any concessions in …
Maliki looking for an alternative plan … if there is any
After about a week since Allawi visited the Supreme Shi’ite cleric Al-Sistani in Najaf, Maliki payed the the highest religious authority a visit in his residence in the old city, but his visit has nothing to do with Allawi. Maliki’s visit comes a day after a harsh attack from Sistani’s representative in Karbala “Ahmad Al-Safi” on the political blocs and the Iraqi government accusing them of delaying the formation of the government preferring to maintain their personal interests. But perhaps the most important development on the Sadrists front is what the Sadrists representative announced in Kufa mosque in “Friday– ceremony” saying that the renewal of Maliki’s term for the second time is a big defeat for the Sadrist movement. Although …
UNIFIL cooperates with Israel to violate the Lebanese airspace
While Lebanese army fired at Israeli warplanes violated the Lebanese airspace, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai released a secret document shows a cooperation between the Israeli military and the UNIFIL “in southern Lebanon”, in which both sides agree to conceal any information about the Israeli violations of the Lebanese airspace. The source who provided the newspaper with this document said that the UNIFIL considers itself as an essential forces contributing to the war on terror in the Middle East.