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Maliki’s multi-“small wars”

Iraqi Prime Min­is­ter Maliki is cur­rently fac­ing many “small wars” on many fronts. An already declared war with the Iraqiya List, par­tic­u­larly with its leader, Iyad Allawi, and three “silent wars” with the so-called part­ners who are the Sadrists and … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraq: The stink of government corruption

Despite that the MP Hanan Al-Fatlawi pro­vided solid evi­dence on the admin­is­tra­tive cor­rup­tion and vio­la­tions com­mit­ted by the Inde­pen­dent Elec­toral Com­mis­sion [watch the shock­ing clip: Fat­lawi counts the cor­rup­tions inside (IHEC)], it seems that the fail­ure to freeze (IHEC) was … Con­tinue read­ing

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Sadr’s new ref­er­en­dum, more pressure on the US to leave Iraq

There are two major devel­op­ments about Muq­tada Al-Sadr ask­ing the opin­ion of many reli­gious lead­ers (Shi­ite, Sunni, and Chris­tians) on the extend the pres­ence of the US occu­pa­tion forces after the end of this year. The ref­er­en­dum included three ques­tions: … Con­tinue read­ing

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Allawi’s “Bats of Darkness” will form a “Majority Government”

All indi­ca­tions show that the polit­i­cal process in Iraq is head­ing towards a “major­ity gov­ern­ment”, but this will be decided tomor­row … A turn­ing point in the future … From bad to bad … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraq: Allawi, Maliki .. Confrontation reached its climax

Anti-Maliki demon­stra­tion in Lon­don .. 10-06-2011 (see video below) While al-Maliki suc­ceeded in emp­ty­ing the con­tents of the Friday’s demon­stra­tion by plan­ning a mass demon­stra­tion led by tribal elders who started to attack Anti-Maliki demon­stra­tors (video shows pro-Maliki groups attack the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Timing the resignation, why lots of Iraqis go mad in June?

A cleaver move from Abdel Mahdi, which would give him more cred­i­bil­ity among the Iraqi street and the reli­gious author­ity in the future. In his res­ig­na­tion state­ment, he says that the impor­tant cause of this deci­sion is the objec­tion of … Con­tinue read­ing

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The new (US-sponsored) Iraqi parliament lobby to extend the US presence in Iraq

The secret meet­ings among polit­i­cal fac­tions in Iraq to extend the pres­ence of the US forces [I reported about two weeks ago] are no secret any­more. Sources con­firmed that the renewed nego­ti­a­tions between the Iraqiya List and the State of … Con­tinue read­ing

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Arab security report — week 19

Iraq Inten­sive nego­ti­a­tions held behind closed doors among Iraqi polit­i­cal blocs aimed to reach an agree­ment of form­ing a polit­i­cal major­ity gov­ern­ment, which will exclude the Sadrists dur­ing the next phase. Par­tic­i­pants in these meet­ings are MP Has­san Sinead (State … Con­tinue read­ing

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Will the US use Bin Laden’s death to extend its presence in Iraq?

A com­ing wave of vio­lence con­ducted and directed by the US that will hit the Arab world and Europe. The nom­i­nated stage for these actions is the Iraqi arena with the coop­er­a­tion of some polit­i­cal par­ties in Iraq who will … Con­tinue read­ing

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The (not so) secret plan to extend the US presence in Iraq

Renewed their rejec­tion and demon­stra­tion to extend the pres­ence of the US occu­pa­tion forces as this head­line describe it “exer­cise their anti-American mus­cles”, the Sadrists added one more “mus­cle” after the spir­i­tual leader of the Move­ment who lives in Iran … Con­tinue read­ing

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