Al Hakim was visibly angry with Al Maliki’s insistence that no one but he was entitled to the Iraqi premiership. The two men seemed to agree that it was vital to prevent the rise of the secular Allawi, but little else besides, notes Sami Moubayed.
When the 38-year old Ammar Al Hakim succeeded his...
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اعتبر ائتلاف العراقية بزعامة اياد علاوي تأجيل المصادقة على نتائج الانتخابات "محاولة مقصودة" لاعطاء ائتلافي دولة القانون والوطني وقتاً أكبر لانقاذ تحالفهما الانتخابي بعد الفشل المتواصل في حسم مرشح توافقي لرئاسة الحكومة. وقال عضو العراقية شاكر كتاب ان "المقصود من التأجيل هو كسب الوقت والحيلولة دون اجتماع البرلمان أطول وقت ممكن...
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The election begins today for certain military and service sectors. Double suicide attack to election polls in Baghdad. The Shiites are divided into two camps, even the Kurds. The novelty of the secular party of Allawi. The game play is between a unitary and centralized state and a federal state.
Baghdad (AsiaNews) – Voting...
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The Iraqi Ba’ath party was formed in 1954 by anti-communist and reactionary nationalist Shiite and Sunni Arabs.
From the beginning, the party was anti-democratic and soon after its formation it turned into a fascist organisation, with an Arab nationalist ideology that believed in attaining political power through non-democratic means,...
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علاوي وعبد المهدي الأوفر حظاً لتولي منصب رئاسة الوزراء وتراجع فرص المالكي بولاية ثانية
ضمن المباحثات التي تجريها الكتل السياسية العراقية تم التوصل الى صيغة توافقية بين المجلس الأعلى والقائمة العراقية والتحالف الكردستاني تقضي بعدم معارضة ترشيح كل من عادل عبد المهدي أو اياد علاوي لمنصب رئاسة الوزراء وجرى الاتفاق...
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“As early as November of 2003 the US National Intelligence Council produced a National Intelligence Estimate that reported the resistance to occupation in Iraq as being nationalist in motivation with deep roots in the society. Department of Defense reports to Congress have shown that for the duration of the war 73 percent of significant...
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PARIS (AFP) — Iraq’s Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi urged Iraq’s Christian minority not to flee the country on Wednesday and called on the international community to help protect it from extremists.
According to Christian leaders, 250,000 of the 800,000 Christians who lived in Iraq six years ago, before the invasion that ousted dictator Saddam...
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احتل موضوع الاتفاقية الأمنية الاولوية الاجتماع الذي ضم رئيس الجمهورية جلال طالباني ونائبيه طارق الهاشمي وعادل عبد المهدي ورئيس إقليم كردستان مسعود البارزاني الذين وصلوا إلى دوكان لبحث المستجدات الاخيرة . وقال مصدر قيادي في الإتحاد الوطني الكردستاني في تصريح صحفي له نشر اليوم إن القادة الأربعة بحثوا في اجتماعهم وضع آلية لتنفيذ اتفاقية...
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