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Ba’ath Party and the election – 1

Six years after the fall, Baath Party still present in the Iraqi polit­i­cal arena, and at the fore­front of the polit­i­cal debate among polit­i­cal coali­tions and enti­ties. This debate esca­lated after the cir­cu­la­tion of rumors say that the Baathists want … Con­tinue read­ing

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The Shiite front and the neo-Baathists

Hia­tus for the com­ing two days, Twit­ter con­tin­ues. While Maliki renewed his attacks on Saudi Ara­bia yes­ter­day,  Ammar Al-Hakim thanked Saudi Ara­bia for its “sup­port­ive role” all these years (direct reac­tion from Dawa’s Al-Adeeb say­ing that Iraq wants to renew … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraqi parliament, the new Iran — U.S. conflict arena

I can imag­ine that Ali Larijani’s visit to Iraq is to pres­sure the “State of Law” to join the INA, but I don’t think that this is the rea­son behind the cir­cu­lat­ing news of Maliki’s deci­sion (already reported here two … Con­tinue read­ing

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Religious blocs in chaos after the announcement of Allawi coalition

The announce­ment of the for­ma­tion of the (Iraqi National Move­ment) set the elec­tion plan of the Iraqi polit­i­cal Islam (espe­cially the Shi­ites par­ties) in more chaos than it already is. The Shiite-Shiite par­ties equa­tion itself in a com­plete dis­ar­ray, bypass­ing … Con­tinue read­ing

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Election crisis management and the US forces withdrawal

Rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Supreme cleric Sis­tani (Abdul Mahde AL-Karbala’i) warned against the post­pone of the elec­tions as sched­uled (16–01–2010), his argu­ment was: The post­pone will con­tains many risks and ten­sions that could lead the Iraqi polit­i­cal arena to a new … Con­tinue read­ing

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Kirkuk deadlock continues

Despite the spe­cial treat­ment in visit to Wash­ing­ton, it seems that the Amer­i­cans insist to make Maliki’s life more mis­er­able than it already is. Influ­en­tial Kur­dish MP Mah­moud Uth­man said today the fol­low­ing: Kurds have received a green light from … Con­tinue read­ing

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Understanding today’s explosions, Maliki wants to join INA

Secu­rity Min­utes after today’s series explo­sions, and to gain the inter­na­tional sup­port for an inter­na­tional tri­bunal, AL-Dabag reac­tion was the explo­sion tar­geted a con­fer­ence of for­eign ambas­sadors in Man­soor Hotel, while in real­ity the bomb exploded kilo­me­ters away from the Hotel. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Maliki’s visit to Washington, split among the Sadrists

First — As expected and long run­ning dis­pute between Maliki and Inte­rior Min­is­ter Bolani took another turn today. Maliki’s last act before leav­ing to Wash­ing­ton is ask­ing the Par­lia­ment to with­draw con­fi­dence from Bolani. — The offi­cial state­ment says that … Con­tinue read­ing

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Caretaker” government

Iraqi Pres­i­den­tial Council’s plan shorten Maliki’s gov­ern­ment life and changed into a “care­taker” gov­ern­ment is crit­i­cized by AL-Dabagh today say­ing that the gov­ern­ment will be a “care­taker” after the elec­tion and this is con­firmed in the constitution.

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ISCI conference

ISCI held its con­fer­ence and chose Ammar Al-Hakim as a per­ma­nent leader (as expected), but one inter­est­ing thing; the con­fer­ence end state­ment approached Ammar Al-Hakim as “Hujut-Al-Islam Wal-Muslimeen” (Verse of Islam and Mus­lim), which is a high ranked reli­gious title, … Con­tinue read­ing

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