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Iraq: arrest warrant for vice-president Al-Hashimi a golden chance for the Kurds

The CIA chief David Petraeus to attend Al-Iraqiya meet­ing yes­ter­day makes you won­der about the US role in the cur­rent unrest in Iraq or even in the bomb­ing and assas­si­na­tions. The cri­sis started with the arrest of the body­guards of … Con­tinue read­ing

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Unfortunately, Egyptians are not able to cancel secret US-Muslim Brotherhood deal

Egypt’s polit­i­cal vio­lence: What is going on under the sur­face? It was no coin­ci­dence that the US, the Egypt­ian Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and the Mil­i­tary Junta sup­port the same goal in Egypt. After years of fruit­less nego­ti­a­tions between the US and Mus­lim … 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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Winners, losers and lost momentum

From the many arti­cles I read today (mostly on the west­ern media), all came to one con­clu­sion: Maliki is the win­ner, and the Kurds lost heav­ily with one pres­i­den­tial office. In my opin­ion it is the other way around, Kurds … Con­tinue read­ing

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Sadrists political maneuver may prove successful, Qatar negotiates Iran to ensure Al-Iraqiya’s place in the new government

First of all, the three con­di­tions which made the Sadrists to accept Adil Abdul-Mahdi are: — The ter­mi­na­tion of all secu­rity agree­ments with the U.S. (which why the U.S. hur­ried to announce “keep troops in Iraq after 2011″). — An … Con­tinue read­ing

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As Washington and Tehran want Maliki, Damascus will dictate the path of Iraqi politics

Many talks about the a con­fer­ence in Syria (as I reported about the Syr­ian role before), lead­ers of Iraq’s coali­tions will meet at Ramadan’s “Iftar” invi­ta­tion hosted by Bashar Al-Asad (in coor­di­na­tion with coor­di­na­tion of Iranian-Syria-Saudi Arabia-Turkey) to dis­cuss the gov­ern­ment … Con­tinue read­ing

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Leaked U.S. document of the power-sharing between Maliki, Allawi

Before you read the doc­u­ment, notice that the heated dis­cus­sions took place dur­ing the last period, focused on one point: “ Also notice that (CCNSP) is a tem­po­rary solu­tion gives the U.S. the enough time to announce the with­drawal of … Con­tinue read­ing

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The Kurdistan Alliance’s conditions to form a government

From the (20 or 19) points (con­di­tions) put by the Kur­dis­tan Alliance for the nego­ti­a­tions with other coali­tions, we can notice the des­per­ate attempt from the Kurds to “re-establish” them­selves as the “King Maker”?. The Kurds know that the for­ma­tion of … Con­tinue read­ing

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The U.S. “secret condition” to support Iran’s Uranium-exchange deal

Reach­ing a dead end on the for­ma­tion of the Com­mit­tee to choose can­di­dates for the prime min­is­ter post, the newly joined coali­tion decided to jump upon this issue, by decid­ing to choose a name for the coali­tion and its leader … Con­tinue read­ing

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Winners and losers in the new exclusion decision

Some inter­est­ing com­ments today made by the Sadrist leader Bahaa Al-Araji say­ing that con­trary to expec­ta­tions Maliki’s State of Law could loss two seats after the recount of the votes. As for the new exclu­sion list of the 52 can­di­dates released … Con­tinue read­ing

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