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Between the hammer and the anvil, US presence in Iraq and Maliki’s future will be decided today

Between the US ham­mer and the Iran­ian anvil, not only the US pres­ence in Iraq, but Maliki’s future will be decided today. Iraqi Pres­i­dent Talabani’s call for a meet­ing among the lead­ers of the polit­i­cal coali­tions is the meet­ing which … Con­tinue read­ing

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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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Al-Sadr’s concessions to continue, stop all attacks on the American troops

Muq­tada Al-sadr decided to halt all attacks on the Amer­i­can troops in Iraq, allow­ing them to with­draw com­pletely at the end of the year. This con­tra­dicts, ear­lier deci­sion has been announced some time ago by the leader of the Sadrists Move­ment, … 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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Maliki started to fear the “Arab Spring”

230 dead and wounded in one day, At the same time US Sec Def Panetta claimed that Iraq agreed to extend the pres­ence of the US troops, despite the Iraqi gov­ern­ment denial say­ing that “No offi­cial talks have taken place … Con­tinue read­ing

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Is there some kind of “agreement” between the US and Iran?

Update Con­firms my argu­ment .… Iran for­eign min­is­ter says hopes US hik­ers will be freed Change in the US tone against Iran as reported by Reuters quot­ing US Admi­ral Mike Mullen say­ing: “dra­matic drop in Iran-backed attacks in Iraq”, which con­tra­dicts … 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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Sadr to accept the US presence in Iraq! Syria is toying with the Americans

After less than a day since he released his state­ment vowed that Iraq to become a grave­yard for Amer­i­cans, Muq­tada Al-Sadr changed his posi­tion to accept the pres­ence of the US troops in Iraq. Sadrist leader in the Iraqi par­lia­ment said … 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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