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Linking topics: Iraq’s arrests and Federalism, US media false story and why Libya created its own Sistani?

If the autonomous deci­sion made by the Salah-Al-Din Province right or wrong con­sti­tu­tion­ally, the big sur­prise which shocked Maliki and his gov­ern­ment is the huge pub­lic turn out to demon­strate for the sup­port of this deci­sion, unex­pected even by the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Hassan, Hussein and those in between

There is a very lim­ited zone for what is defined as sacred in the Islamic thoughts and cul­ture, every­thing beyond this space is sub­jected to crit­i­cism and in many cases lead to vio­lence. We can see this clearly in the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraq’s — “Day of Regret”

While demon­stra­tions con­tin­ued in the “Day of Regret” with peo­ple carry images of their fin­gers tainted in blood or bit­ing the their “vote fin­ger” — in Mosul — Bagh­dad [videos], politi­cians are try­ing to asso­ciate them­selves with the demon­stra­tors. Allawi’s … Con­tinue read­ing

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Al-Sadr’s new role against Sistani’s authority

While Senior Shi­ites Supreme-clerics still live in the old city near the shrine of Imam Ali bin Abi Talib, the media ignored the sig­nif­i­cance of Muq­tada Al-Sadr’s move of chang­ing his father’s office from Al-Hannana neigh­bor­hood in the old-city to … Con­tinue read­ing

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Obama’s letter, and the Supreme-clerics response

The fail­ure of the U.S. del­e­ga­tion Sources revealed that a new U.S. del­e­ga­tion is prepar­ing to visit Bagh­dad within a few days, to accel­er­ate the for­ma­tion of new Iraqi gov­ern­ment. This visit comes after the fail­ure of the pre­vi­ous U.S. … Con­tinue read­ing

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It is time for the supreme clerics to intervene

With less than 24 hours since INA released an offi­cial state­ment announced the freeze of all nego­ti­a­tions with the “State of Law” coali­tion (inter­est­ing is that the announce­ment is read by Ahmed Al-Chalabi, to deny the spec­u­la­tions that Cha­l­abi stand … Con­tinue read­ing

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Grand Ayatollah Fadlallah, the black sheep of the Hawza … Why it is important to watch Maliki’s reaction?

With the death Hizballh’s and Maliki’s Dawa Party spir­i­tual leader Grand Aya­tol­lah Sayyed Mohammed Hus­sein Fad­lal­lah died today, it is very inter­est­ing to watch the posi­tion of the Iraqi Hawza, espe­cially Sis­tani. Since Maliki wants to change the Islamic face … Con­tinue read­ing

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New alliances and a new political scene is emerging

No doubt that Maliki’s chances for a sec­ond term are in decline if not close to zero, take for exam­ple today’s report on Al-Hayat: Wash­ing­ton invited Barzani, Abdul Mahdi and Hashimi for talks with Obama and Biden (all the three … Con­tinue read­ing

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Dawa Party: Time to replace Maliki with another candidate

Inter­est­ing speech made by Maliki yes­ter­day say­ing that the Par­lia­ment should be elected, and led by one or two polit­i­cal bloc. This call is directly rejected by many polit­i­cal par­ties (among them Al-Bolani cur­rent Inte­rior Min­is­ter), refused to imple­ment the … Con­tinue read­ing

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Maliki — Sistani –Hakim and the return to the sectarian quotas

This is not the first time, the Saudis insult Sis­tani, but this time the con­dem­na­tions involved the Iraqi gov­ern­ment, includ­ing Maliki him­self, who attacked the Saudi reli­gious insti­tu­tions (and today even Tal­a­bani put him­self in this reli­gious row, send­ing a … Con­tinue read­ing

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