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Iraq: Al-Sadr blocked the Kurds deal with Baghdad

Few hours after the Kur­dis­tan Alliance declared its deter­mi­na­tion and the polit­i­cal will to nego­ti­ate the oil law and to visit the Supreme reli­gious author­ity in Najaf, Moq­tada Al-Sadr announced his clear rejec­tion of fed­er­al­ism before the Kurds take this move. It … 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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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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The hypocrisy of “Quds Day” in Iraq ordered in Iran

Since the start of the so-called “Arab spring”. This spring brought dan­ger­ous sur­prises that will turn the polit­i­cal equa­tions in the region upside down. One the most impor­tant impli­ca­tions is the regime change of the Syr­ian Pres­i­dent Bashar al-Assad, with … 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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Muqtada Al-Sadr and the “Promised Day Brigade”

No mil­i­tary or even mili­tia struc­ture, and suf­fered from splits groups like Asaib Al-Haq or Abu Dera’a group which effected Al-Sadr’s rep­u­ta­tion among the Shi­ite pub­lic. Muq­tada Al-Sadr started to think that the Mahdi Army turned into a bur­den rather … Con­tinue read­ing

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Sadrists suicide bombers, part of the region divide and unrest politics

At a time when Moq­tada al-Sadr, blessed a group of sup­port­ers ready to carry out sui­cide bomb­ings against “infi­del occu­pa­tion” Amer­i­can tar­gets in Iraq (image above), he did not give the green light to do so. Sadr responded, say­ing: .. … 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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