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The Supreme Council: split or deviation?

We can fil­ter Ammar Al-Hakim’s “sched­uled vis­its” in Lebanon by sim­ply click­ing on the “vis­its” tab on the Supreme Council’s web­site and we are inter­ested only in his meet­ings with Lebanese offi­cials. Ammar Al-Hakim meets: -) Walid Jum­blatt, Sheikh Akil … Con­tinue read­ing

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Kirkuk discussion

First — The ISCI liked the Sadrists’ pre-election nom­i­na­tion idea and started their own pre-election to choose can­di­dates to com­pete for the com­ing elec­tion. What is going on in the Par­lia­ment for days (and I think this will take at … Con­tinue read­ing

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Caretaker” government

Iraqi Pres­i­den­tial Council’s plan shorten Maliki’s gov­ern­ment life and changed into a “care­taker” gov­ern­ment is crit­i­cized by AL-Dabagh today say­ing that the gov­ern­ment will be a “care­taker” after the elec­tion and this is con­firmed in the constitution.

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ISCI conference

ISCI held its con­fer­ence and chose Ammar Al-Hakim as a per­ma­nent leader (as expected), but one inter­est­ing thing; the con­fer­ence end state­ment approached Ammar Al-Hakim as “Hujut-Al-Islam Wal-Muslimeen” (Verse of Islam and Mus­lim), which is a high ranked reli­gious title, … Con­tinue read­ing

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Election conflict intensifies

- Under the title “Par­ties con­flict inten­si­fies”, Lebanese Al-Mustaqbal pub­lished a very inter­est­ing report about INA’s next plan to iso­late Maliki: The Iraqi pres­i­dency Coun­cil (Tal­a­bani, Adil Abdul Mahdi and Hashimi) to a new law before the Par­lia­ment that will … Con­tinue read­ing

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A preview of Maliki’s coalition — What happened before and after the announcement!

The first event was one day before the announce­ment of Maliki’s new coali­tion, Ammar AL-Hakim made a U-turn in one of the basics of ISCI’s ide­ol­ogy, that will pro­voke a debate not within the Shi­ite cir­cles only, but inside INA itself. Con­tinue read­ing

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The opposition’s strategy to crash Maliki’s government

Maliki’s chances for a sec­ond term are shrink­ing, and what left for the “State of Law” is the gam­ble on the party’s pre­vi­ous expe­ri­ence in the provin­cial elec­tions when the party man­aged to defeat the ISCI, the Sadrists and the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Failed assassination attempt on Ammar Al-Hakim

Accord­ing to Kuwaiti Aljarida: The plan was to smug­gle explo­sives inside cig­a­rettes boxes at one the ISCI cel­e­bra­tions this week to assas­si­nate Ammar Al-Hakim, but the secu­rity man­aged to arrest one of the three suspects.

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How the Supreme Council will choose its new leader?

Some­thing needs to be explained first, unlike other polit­i­cal (blocs, par­ties, trends, move­ments), the Supreme Coun­cil estab­lished an “unwritten-law” which includes: Not mov­ing its leadership’s ambi­tion to gov­ern­men­tal posi­tions, but the aim is to push the party’s high-ranked mem­bers to … Con­tinue read­ing

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The power balance in Iraqi political arena after Al-Hakim’s death

Some Blogs believe that Al-Hakim’s death will boosts Maliki’s chances against the new Shi­ites Coali­tion, but if you dig deep you will find that this is another big blow to Maliki’s (and the oth­ers) chances. Some­thing we must not for­get … Con­tinue read­ing

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