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Western Countries aim is to spur sectarianism and drive Syria toward civil war

Because the Syr­ian reg­u­lar Army is still active and intact, we notice that the West­ern media and its stooge Arab Gulf-States con­cen­trate on the ter­ror­ists organ­i­sa­tion of so-called “Free Syr­ian Army”. Here is the BBC, Aljazeera with a video clip … 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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Iran’s “silent” preparation for a war in Syria — “Iraq is the buffer state”

Mil­i­tary We already reported that Iran threat­ened Turkey to enter a war along­side Syria, and yes­ter­day Iraq did its tiny bit by issu­ing a ban in Turk­ish air­planes from land­ing on its ter­ri­tory. In an oper­a­tion called “Destroy­ing the Illu­sion”, … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraq’s Federalism, upside down, north and west

Upside down In 2005, nearly 12 mil­lion Iraqis res­i­dents of the south­ern provinces and north­ern Iraq demon­strated to say “Yes” to Iraq’s per­ma­nent con­sti­tu­tion. The con­sti­tu­tion is boy­cotted by the Sunni major­ity west­ern provinces who opposed this ref­er­en­dum. Time is … Con­tinue read­ing

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The geography behind the US apology to Iraq’s Shiites

Wash­ing­ton started to offer Tehran some priv­i­leges and reas­sur­ances after see­ing that the Shi­ite cres­cent is already started to mate­ri­alise, not in only words but geo­graph­i­cally also. Since the US under­stands that Iran is the largest Shi­ite ref­er­ence state in 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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