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At the eve of the parliament’s first session .. The possible Iraqi scenarios

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 …

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.


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