Roads to Iraq

- As reported on Moheet, Iraqi Consultants Council opposition group sent a letter to Obama saying that the group does not recognize the current sectarian government because it came to power based on a sectarian election. The group also asked Obama not follow Bush's footsteps in Iraq. - Sadrists confirmed that they do not trust Obama's promise of change, Sadrist MP ...

Some of Obama propagandists are trying to mislead the public opinion by saying that everybody in the Middle East is supporting the new American president Obama, some of them even quoted lines from article, but the reality is different and not very optimistic, and this Reuters report summarizes the feelings of the Arab public "Mideast echoes Obama's 'change' message, sceptically" From ...

We start with Iraqi Ali Al-Saraf, who calls Arab - American Obama voters "idiots and fools": There are differences between our interests are their [Americans] interests, The U.S. right now is an injured beast and Obama will bring a fresh air to the White House to heal this best to start with his attack again. Voting for McCain means to kill ...

- A good reminder from Iraqi writer Al-Shaboot on Kuwaiti Al-Watan: The U.S. administration felt the need to leak the "threat" letter to the media, although they are sure that Iraqi public opinion supports SOFA, but the SOFA's opposition successfully managed to connect the security pact with sovereignty. - Saudi newspaper Al-Watan reported that the reason behind appointing Chalabi as a senior ...

Al-Hakim said that he accept a coffee invitation from the Jordanian king Abdulallah in mid-2007, after the coffee he felt pain and stomachache and started vomiting blood. After his personal doctor failed to diagnose the problem, Al-Hakim traveled to Iran to see an Iranian specialist who told him that he found traces of Thallium poison which is used by the Jordanian ...

This is reported on Saudi TV Al-Arabiya and then by the foreign media "Iraq sends extra police to Syrian border", the strange thing is that they don't report the denial of the Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman: The Iraqi Defense Ministry denies deploying any additional troops to the border with Syria, the Syrian government reduced its forces on the Syrian-Iraqi border is ...

Reliable sources revealed to Al-Hayat about a warning letter sent by Washington to Baghdad listed the consequences of not signing the draft security agreement. The letter contains three topics: No security agreement means: Security and stability risks U.S. troops failure to offer help (to defeat the enemies of Iraq), which means the halt of (counter-terrorism operations, Al-Qaida, the special groups and other threats, ...

This is a good "helicopter -view" of the Iraqi political scene regarding SOFA: - The Kurdish nationalist parties publicly announced their total support to SOFA, and attacked SOFA's opposition political blocs. The Kurdish Islamic parties, stayed silent. - Parties allied under the United Iraqi Alliance exchanged different roles. The leaders of the Supreme Council shared various positions from the security agreement. Between ...

This is very important and not reported be the foreign media. Reported today on the Green Zone newspaper Sabaah that Maliki ordered to activate his previous decision of halting all the raids on Sadr followers [which means Mahdi Army] and conditionally release of Sadr followers who are in prisons [the condition here is prisoners have to swear to not to ...

Al-Arabiya reported that Syria reduced its military forces and border guards on the Syria - Iraq border [cutting diplomatic ties with Iraq also], but what I heard [from my own sources] is that Syria withdrew all its forces from the border [which means giving the green light to armed groups to cross to Iraq]. Syrian ambassador in Washington Imad Mustafa told ...