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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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The war of the press conferences

The cur­rent Iraqi cri­sis started bad and turned ugly, but there is one thing I should say: Even a peace­ful solu­tion means many changes in the future polit­i­cal map of Iraq .. in a later post, I will explain why … 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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Iraq — Sadr’s “Mahdi Army” in Syria?

  Video clip shows the announce­ment of the for­ma­tion of the “Free Anbar Brigade to sup­port the Syr­ian Peo­ple” in Iraq in its two oper­a­tions tar­get­ing buses trans­port Sadr’s “Mahdi Army” to Syria [as the Brigade claims] escorted by the … Con­tinue read­ing

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No immunity for the US Embassy delegation in Baghdad

The not very sur­prise visit of the U.S. Vice Pres­i­dent Joseph Biden’s [already reported on Al-Hayat since 18-10-2011] is post­poned. Both the Iraqi and Amer­i­can sides are not giv­ing the rea­sons explain this delay, but accord­ing to sources Maliki’s gov­ern­ment … Con­tinue read­ing

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The US plot after Iraq withdrawal: wave of arrests and assassinations

A wave of arrest of the for­mer Baath Party mem­bers and mil­i­tary offi­cers (despite many of them are given immu­nity after sev­eral rec­on­cil­i­a­tion con­fer­ences). While the Maliki’s gov­ern­ment claims that these peo­ple are plot­ting a coup to seize power after … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraq: Al-Sadr more pressure on Maliki

While Maliki’s gov­ern­ment faces the calls of inde­pen­dence and sep­a­ra­tion by the Kurds and some Sunni fac­tions because of the lack of ser­vices and the polit­i­cal and eco­nomic sit­u­a­tion … Yet Muq­tada Al-Sadr opens up another front to put more … Con­tinue read­ing

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Muqtada Al-Sadr’s American finger and the US presence in Iraq

What is impor­tant about Muq­tada Al-Sadr’s last state­ment reject­ing the US pres­ence in Iraq is a one line he used (and not reported by the West­ern media). Al-Sadr said exactly: If my fin­ger is an Amer­i­can, I will cut it off. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Despite Sadrists rejection, US trainers to stay in Iraq … without immunity

Iraqi Gov­ern­ment spokesman Al-Dabagh released a very strange state­ment telling Al-Mada news­pa­per that the gov­ern­ment decided to ban the US Con­gress del­e­ga­tion from enter­ing the Iraqi ter­ri­to­ries because they the met with the Iraqi oppo­si­tion leader Harith Al-Dhari. What is … Con­tinue read­ing

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