Sunday, October 24, 2010
Occupation Iraq: Moving In on Maliki
BAGHDAD — The Sunni-backed political coalition that narrowly won the most votes in Iraq’s parliamentary election appeared yesterday to be giving up its demand for the premiership, boosting the Shi’ite prime minister’s drive to keep his job.
The stunning turnabout is sure to inflame Iraq’s minority Sunnis....
And get the CIA to activate those CIA-Duh cells!
A key Iraqiya leader said yesterday that the party is no longer insisting on receiving the top job as long as it gets an equal share of power in Iraq’s government. It marks the strongest concession to date by Iraqiya, and could break the seven-month political impasse that has stymied Iraq from seating a new government....
Sheik Adnan al-Danbous, a Shi’ite who is close to the Iraqiya chief Ayad Allawi, said Iraqiya could live with Maliki keeping his job — so long as the party gets other plum positions, such as the presidency or Parliament speaker.
Marginalized in Iraq’s power circles after Saddam Hussein’s ouster and after boycotting the first round of elections in 2005, Sunnis joined with Iraqiya this year in hopes of regaining political strength. Sunnis make up the majority of Iraqiya, which is widely recognized as the largest and most influential nonreligious political alliance.
The party’s leader, former prime minister Allawi, is a Shi’ite.
The comments marked a surprising change of course for Iraqiya, which after the election appeared poised to lead Iraq away from hard-line religious politics and toward a more secular government.
Iraqiya won two more parliamentary seats than Maliki’s bloc in the March vote, but neither won enough seats to control Parliament outright, touching off a scramble to rally support from other political parties that has dragged on for more than seven months.
Maliki also got a boost earlier this month by forging an alliance with anti-American Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr that all but sealed the prime minister’s hold on his job.
Related: Occupation Iraq: Sadr Crowns Maliki King
That, too, prompted an outcry from Sunnis, some of whom predicted the end of democracy in Iraq if Maliki were to remain in power.
Separately yesterday, two small Sunni political groups joined forces in hopes of wielding some influence in the ongoing power struggle. Though their new Iraqi Centrist Alliance holds only a combined 10 seats in Parliament, its merger probably signals Sunni frustration with being left out of negotiations....
Meanwhile, Iraqi authorities said they broke up a Baghdad cell of the Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella group for Sunni insurgents that is linked to Al Qaeda in Iraq, and charged at least two of its members with orchestrating a series of bombings on foreign embassies in the capital.
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Next day he is singing a different tune.
Related:
BAGHDAD — New documents detailing alleged prisoner abuse by Iraqi security officials prompted fresh doubts yesterday about Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s bid to remain in power for a second term.
The trove of nearly 400,000 WikiLeaks papers details US military reports of alleged abuse by Iraqi security forces — some of which happened after Maliki became prime minister in May 2006.
Yeah, NEVER YOU MIND U.S. TORTURE!
They were released as Maliki scrambles to keep his job, nearly seven months after national elections failed to produce a clear winner.
What an OBVIOUS, AGENDA-PUSHING PSY-OP!
In a statement, Maliki’s office lashed out at WikiLeaks, accusing it of creating a national uproar by releasing documents that it said were being used “against national parties and leaders, especially against the prime minister.’’
Maliki’s office questioned the timing of the release, but expressed confidence in “our peoples’ awareness regarding such games or media bubbles that are motivated by known political goals.’’
Looks like I AM NOT the ONLY ONE who NOTICES the COINCIDENCE!
And WE KNOW WHAT AGENDA-PUSHING, WAR-PROMOTING BUBBLES he is talking about. I am ANALYZING one of their ARTICLES right now!
The statement said the documents did not present any proof of detainees being improperly treated while Maliki has headed Iraq’s Shi’ite-led government.
Cases of prisoner abuse were also widely reported in Iraq before Maliki took the top job....
Certainly smells like an AmeriKan newspaper to me.
At a news conference in London yesterday, WikiLeaks said it would soon publish 15,000 additional secret Afghan war documents.
So WHAT AGENDA is to be SERVED NEXT?
'Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell called the release of the Iraq war material by WikiLeaks “shameful, and said it “could potentially undermine our nation’s security.’’
Then let's stop screwing around in other people's affairs.
“The biggest potential damage here, we think, could be to our forces,’’ he said, “because there are now potentially 400,000 documents in the public domain for our enemies to mine, look for vulnerabilities, patterns of behavior, things they could exploit to wage attacks against us in the future.’’
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Also see: Wikileaks Psyops Takes a New Twist
Wikileaks and the CIA - Third Rate Romance
Wiki-Leaks is Israel
WickedLeaks
Wikileaks Story Down to a Whisper
AmeriKan MSM Whistling While Wikileaking Lies
MSM Monitor Goes Deaf
Will You Still Love Wikileaks Tomorrow?
I don't love them today.
I am convinced now more than ever they are a propaganda front -- and I am SICK of the GAME!
