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The new “hope-scenario” in details

24 hours after the Syr­ian author­i­ties met with Maliki’s “State of Law” del­e­ga­tion, Syr­ian media leaked a new sce­nario of the for­ma­tion of the Iraqi gov­ern­ment, which shows some signs of accep­tance among the “major­ity” of the Iraqi coali­tions. INACon­tinue 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 dispute over the presidency in Iraq

Every now and then, Vice-President Tariq Al-Hashimi repeats his call for an Arab Pres­i­dent in Iraq and not a Kurd, but in the com­ing four years the Pres­i­dent posi­tion will be a pow­er­less hon­orary posi­tion, then why the Kurds insist … Con­tinue read­ing

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The not very surprising results in Kirkuk

How Turkey helped Allawi in Kirkuk? Not very sur­pris­ing results for Al-Iraqiya in Kirkuk, espe­cially for those who watched Aljazeera’s Iraqi elec­tion reports from Turkey. Aljazeera core­spon­dent in Ankara “Omar Lafi” said this in three dif­fer­ent reports: While Iraqis abroad … Con­tinue read­ing

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Post-election conflict scenario

Expec­ta­tions indi­cate that the Iraqi gen­eral elec­tions, sched­uled for the next month (07-March-2010), will be a deci­sive turn­ing point, most likely will take the Iraqi polit­i­cal process to a new stage. New Iraq-Iraqi dis­putes will start to emerge, timed with the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Three Sunni candidates for the presidency, Zebari to the Vice-President

The image below is one of the evi­dence used by the Jus­tice and Account­abil­ity against Salih Al-Mutlaq. It is a doc­u­ment from 2002 shows that Salih Al-Mutlaq was in con­tact with the Iraqi Intel­li­gence ser­vice, and as the paper says … Con­tinue read­ing

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Kurdish parties looking for new alliances

Not a sur­pris­ing call from Maliki ask­ing the Kur­dish gov­ern­ment to “end to Kurd oil deal row, while at the same time Maliki knows very well that Barham Salih’s gov­ern­ment can do noth­ing about these oil con­tracts. After assum­ing the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Barzani’s unachievable dream of a Kurdish army

Dur­ing his meet­ing with US Army Lt. Gen. Michael Bar­bero, Barzani said: “one of my dreams to see a uni­fied army of Kur­dis­tan”, a direct reac­tion came from Maliki’s spokesman Al-Dabagh say­ing: “This will remain a dream”. In his last arti­cle … Con­tinue read­ing

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U.S. promises to the Kurds rejected by the parliament, few scandals

- Some inter­est­ing words from Barzani, say­ing that the Amer­i­can promises are much more impor­tant than the parliament’s seats. Kur­dis­tan regional gov­ern­ment refused to say what are these promises, but Kirkuk MP Omar Al-Jabouri said the Amer­i­cans promised the Kurds … Con­tinue read­ing

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The U.S. and Baath Party meetings, Obama — Barzani deal

After the famous phone call between Obama and Barzani, that made the Kur­dish leader to change his mind allow­ing the elec­tion law to pass, Al-Hayat reveals the deal between the two: A high-level polit­i­cal sources told Al-Hayat that the U.S. admin­is­tra­tion … Con­tinue read­ing

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