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Talabani secretly met an Iranian delegation

As reported on Kurdish newspaper Hawalti: Talabani secretly met with an Iranian delegation Telewaera village - Horaman region [bordering Iran] last Wednesday to meet an Iranian delegation of six persons, eyewitnesses said. The people in the village surprised to see Talabani escorted by a motorcade of 15 cars in their village without previously informing the local authorities.

Rice to visit Iraq soon, SOFA process changed

Maliki's interview with the Times shifted all the attentions away from this report published on the Green Zone newspaper Al-Sabaah. The "not very" interesting part is that Condoleezza Rice will visit Iraq in the coming days to put the "final touches" on SOFA agreement. The interesting part is that SOFA's Iraqi process is changed. Maliki's government turned the political procedures around, instead ...

Condoleezza Rice’s secret letter to Hamas

This is reported on Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida: The newspaper learned from Palestinian sources that the U.S. contacted Hamas through the United States embassy in Syria. Condoleezza Rice's letter "praised" Hamas position of the truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip and Hamas position from the rocket launchers targeting Israeli cities and towns. The letter comforts Hamas about the United States position from sending ...

No security agreement signing before the U.S. election

Contradicting each others, both links refer their information to a "well-informed" source, Al-Hayat reported today the following: Well-informed told the newspaper that the Iraqi government determined to sign the security agreement and approved by the Presidential Council in a matter of few days... As for the immunity of the U.S. troops, the context will not be modified, because the duration of ...

Kurdish militias behind the massacres of the Christians in Mosul

Few minutes ago, Aljazeera quoted a statement by the so called "Al-Qaeda" denies any involvement in the bloody campaign against the Christians in Mosul saying: Al-Qaeda has evidence that the Kurdish militia's involvement in displacing and killing campaign of the Christians in order to control certain parts of the province. You can see Iraqi newspaper Azzaman's confirmation in its headline today "Militias ...

Maliki’s visit to Sistani, is it really about the security agreement?

Although both headlines are true, pro-U.S. news sites came with headline similar to this "Top cleric deputises parl., govt. to sign deal - PM" [which we already know that the parl. Opposes the agreement - as the house speaker said in his statement]. Other news sites came with this headline "[U.S. soldiers] Immunity remains sticking point in US-Iraq pact". The two ...

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