Not only bad timing, but Barzani’s “Kurds self-determination” argument in the Conference of the Kurdistan Democratic Party started to backfire, and the result is an agreement between Allawi and Maliki (among other reasons, such as Muqtada Al-Sadr to transform Iraq to an Islamic State, there are reports say that the Lebanese Hizbollah’s members granted the Iraqi nationality). Signs show that Maliki started to ignore the Kurdistan Alliance’s conditions to support his second term (according to Al-Qabas, the Kurdistan Alliance renewed the call on Maliki to sign the conditions). The agreement between Maliki and Allawi on the mechanism to lift the De-Baathification ban on the four of Al-Iraqi leaders is already reported on the Iraqi media since three days ago (it …
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The Council of the Strategic Policy, debates and objections
Update Al-Sumeria just released the last version of the draft document, which (according to the TV channel) will be discussed in the parliament. .….…… No time to translate the whole text of forming the National Council for the strategic policy law drafted by Al-Iraqiya, but I hint to its few articles below. Al-Iraqiya List insists that the Parliament must approve the Council law before proceeding to form the government’s cabinet, which means that Al-Iraqiya wants, first of all, to legitimize the work of the council that is no less important than the the three presidencies. It is expected that this issue will raise a rejection from the “National Alliance”, [already formally rejected the draft law However, sources in Al-Iraqiya, said that …
Iraq’s politics made easy: Who is Turkey’s man in the new government?
Some update first: Despite the confusion about the De-Baathfication Law reported by Aljazeera, It seems Maliki managed to attract Mutlaq his side, but he allied himself with Maliki, as reported by Kuwaiti media today (image above) A deal between Maliki and Salih Al-Mutlaq, to withdraw Mutlaq’s name from the De-Baathification Law allowing him to receive important government office, in exchange that Mutlaq to leave Al-Iraqiya List (Izzat Al-Shahbandar, Maliki’s adviser is the one who orchestrated the new relation between Maliki and Mutlaq). Personally, I don’t think Mutlaq can leave Al-Iraqiya officially, but we will see more cooperation between him and Maliki in the future. Who is Turkey’s man in the new government? There is some kind of contradiction between the …
Winners, losers and lost momentum
From the many articles I read today (mostly on the western media), all came to one conclusion: Maliki is the winner, and the Kurds lost heavily with one presidential office. In my opinion it is the other way around, Kurds gained enormously, and the future Maliki is weak and helpless Prime Minister, this is why: The Kurds First impression, the Kurds didn’t achieve much except the powerless office of the president, but look deeper and see what Barzani achieved. Seen before as a tribal warlord, Barzani emerged from the crisis as a new “promising” leader, not only regionally but even internationally (NATO nominated Barzani for the peace prize). This is what Al-Quds Al-Arabi wrote today: Kurds achieved a significant share of this …
The creation of the Sectarian Maliki(te) Republic of Iraq
Maliki challenged his internal and external rivals threatened that he will topple them all tomorrow in the parliament, considering tomorrow, as not only the date of the formation of his government but also the creation of the Iraqi state, which had been founded by the late King Faisal the First, eighty year before Maliki. Maliki has canceled eighty years of history (because former kings and presidents are Sunnis?), imposing a “fait accompli”, a semi-coup led by the Dawa party and the Sadrists on the Iraqi parliamentary. Maliki said in a conference held in Baghdad with his allies the Sadrists : “Thursday will be the beginning of the founding of the Iraqi state and not only the Iraqi government,”. Adding : …
Scenes from Irbil meeting – going to Saudi Arabia
Update Allawi’s withdrawal and Hashimi’s absence from today’s meeting in Baghdad confirm what I wrote below yesterday. Another update Al-Hakim and Adil Abd Al-Mahdi both withdraw from the meeting. 1– The emergence of a sharp line between those who want to discuss the current issues (the points I already reported in a previous post) before the formation of government, and those who want to solve all the issues after the formation of the government. Tariq Al-Hashimi for example complained about the complexity of the agenda of the meeting — which is a hint to the need to go to Saudi Arabia to pass the Saudi initiative and this is part of Al-Iraqiya effort to “plunder” the meeting. Maliki seems in …
The Saudi initiative has succeeded to split Maliki’s coalition allies
Kurdistan Alliance and the Sadrists to support its initiative (which is called by the Arab media “Iraqi-Taif). A new situation will confuse the “State of Law” coalition and Maliki, who wants to form a political majority government and not a national partnership government. An issue rejected by the Supreme Council and the Kurddish Alliance ’till today. The short history of the Saudi initiative August the 19th 2010, leaked information published on the Saudi funded newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, under the title “Source: An Iraqi-Taif Iraq in Syria supported by Turkey and the Arabs”: The idea of the meeting is a Turkish-Arabs initiative, particularly Saudi Arabia … Lebanese newspaper Al-Diyar added the following: The Iraq-Al-Taif is supported by Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, …
Iraq Church Standoff, is “Al-Qaeda“‘s answer to Pope Benedict’s synod statement
We don’t need to mention the lies of the Iraqi-American forces, starting by the “Baghdad Operations Command” claimed that the number of the hostages are no more than twenty people, while the hostages contacted the media by mobile phones from inside the church said that they are more than fifty. That the joint Iraqi-US forces managed to kill the seven militants and free all the hostages, or the Iraqi military spokesman, who claimed that the militant are thieves took refuge in the Church [Al Qaeda behind Baghdad church hostage-taking] and [Archbishop of Baghdad: the attack on the Church is pre-planned] The synod statement issued by Pope Benedict XVI few days ago [full text, note: the conference is criticized by Israel, see: …
How to exclude the Sunnis? Maliki’s path to the Prime Minister office
Current development on the Kurdistan Alliance-Iraqiya List pushed Maliki to postpone his interview with the official Iraqi TV two days giving the incumbent Prime Minister the time to adjust his words, according to the failure of Allawi and Adil Abdul-Mahdi negotiations with the Kurdistan Alliance, which came as a relief for the “Sadrists”, and the “State of Law” leader Al-Maliki. According to the last information, and after the last meeting held between Barzani and Talabani, Kurdish leaders had decided their final position in favor of Al-Maliki. External and internal reasons behind the Kurdistan Alliance decision: Maliki was able to persuade the Kurds to resolve the differences between Baghdad and Irbil, while Al-Iraqiya’s negotiation with the Kurdistan Alliance focused on its …
The “Round-Table” results
It became clear that each bloc has its own understanding of the meaning of the “Round Table”. Al-Iraqiya sees this table as an opportunity to form “all coalitions” partnership-government contains all coalitions, including the “State of Law”, but without the Al-Maliki. The National Alliance’s understanding of the “Round-Table” term depends on the political blocs within this coalition, Maliki for example sees the formation of the government must move forward, even without Iraqiya List. The Kurdistan Alliance tends to form the Government with the participation of all other coalitions. The Kurds don’t want to marginalize Al-Iraqiya because of the disputed areas in Kirkuk and Mosul. With all these differences, leaked information from Irbil’s meetings confirmed the birth of semi-agreement according to this …