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Iraqiya List” tiny split

Pathetic arti­cle on the NYTimes. The way Al-Iraqiya-trio describe them­selves as “nation­al­ists, sec­u­lar and lib­er­als” is a sad indi­ca­tion shows that they are out of touch with the cur­rent world and regional devel­op­ments. In less than 24 hours after I … Con­tinue read­ing

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Muslim Brotherhood and the root of the recent crisis in Iraq

With the recent rise of the Islamists (the Global Mus­lim Broth­er­hood) “pop­u­lar­ity” in the Arab coun­tries sup­ported by the West, Iraqi Sunni Islamists are dou­ble mar­gin­alised First– by the Shi­ite gov­ern­ment. Sec­ond — by the sec­u­lar lead­er­ship of Al-Iraqiya List. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraq crisis is part of the regional conflict and a blow to the Saudi Arabia — Turkey plan

In his critic to West­ern ana­lysts and experts in Arab affairs who try to research each Arab coun­try as a sep­a­rate case away from its nat­ural regional and Arab envi­ron­ment, Iraqi writer Tariq Al-Dulaimi said the fol­low­ing in his arti­cle … Con­tinue read­ing

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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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Between the hammer and the anvil, US presence in Iraq and Maliki’s future will be decided today

Between the US ham­mer and the Iran­ian anvil, not only the US pres­ence in Iraq, but Maliki’s future will be decided today. Iraqi Pres­i­dent Talabani’s call for a meet­ing among the lead­ers of the polit­i­cal coali­tions is the meet­ing which … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraq: trying to revive the sectarian conflicts

In 2007, influ­en­tial Shi­ite cleric Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim (Father of Ammar Al-Hakim) started to rally the Shi­ite masses to form the Iraqi “South and Mid­dle Region” which is some­thing sim­i­lar to the Kur­dis­tan region. The peo­ple behind this sec­tar­ian divi­sion … 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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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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