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With US gone, Iraq's Maliki is setting the board for a power grab
The Christian Science Monitor ^ | December 21, 2011 | Dan Murphy

Posted on 12/21/2011 2:51:36 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki walks off stage after addressing the US Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Washington, Dec. 13.

Iraq is in political crisis, less than a week after the formal end of direct US involvement in the war there. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has brought terrorism charges against Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, is moving to oust Sunni Deputy Prime Minister Saleh Mutlaq from his position, and has threatened to take away the nine cabinet seats held by the largely Sunni Iraqiyya bloc and replace them with members of his own Shiite governing coalition.

Mr. Hashemi, a Sunni Islamist who heads the Iraqi Islamic Party, is a member of the Iraqiyya bloc, and had a number of close family members murdered during Iraq's civil war. Hashemi had some ties to Iraq's insurgency during the worst of the fighting (when former Monitor reporter Jill Carroll was released by her Sunni kidnappers in 2006, she was dropped off in front of his office) but has worked as much as any on his side of the fence to forge sectarian reconciliation in the years since.

But now he has fled to Kurdistan, where he's being shielded from his arrest warrant. In a televised news conference today, Mr. Maliki threatened the Kurdish north with "problems" if they don't hand over Hashemi.

(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iraq; obamalegacy

1 posted on 12/21/2011 2:51:38 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

A lot of blood letting and old scores to be settled in Iraq.


2 posted on 12/21/2011 2:54:30 PM PST by taxcontrol
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To: MinorityRepublican

And how long will it be before Iraq is again ruled by a tyrant whose strings are being pulled by both Iranians and Islamofascists?


3 posted on 12/21/2011 2:54:32 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: MinorityRepublican

Duh...


4 posted on 12/21/2011 2:56:32 PM PST by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The gloves will come off soon — the insurgency will be fighting a foe that’s not hamstrung with P.C. ROE.


5 posted on 12/21/2011 2:56:54 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: MestaMachine

Nouri al-Maliki Iraq’s new Saddam Hussein


6 posted on 12/21/2011 2:58:49 PM PST by molson209
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To: MinorityRepublican

When the civil war in Iraq reignites, you will not hear about it.

2012 is an election year, and such a disaster so close to Obama’s troop pullout will not look good. the MSM will strictly ignore it.


7 posted on 12/21/2011 3:03:07 PM PST by PGR88 (Sic transit gloria mundi)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Mission accomplished. Thanks, Dubya. Thanks, Cheney. Thanks Rummy et al.

Oh yeah — thanks to the families of the 5,000+ Americans who gave their lives for this folly and fraud. I sincerely regret that they sacrificed their lives for nothing.


8 posted on 12/21/2011 3:07:16 PM PST by Romulus (The Traditional Latin Mass is the real Youth Mass)
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To: molson209

I think maliki will be worse. He is an iranian shia puppet. Expect genocide. Sunni and Kurdish, unless they join forces and even then, it will be bloody civil war.


9 posted on 12/21/2011 3:09:46 PM PST by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: molson209
Nouri al-Maliki Iraq’s new Saddam Hussein

Even worse...at least Saddam wasn't an Iranian loving Shiite!

10 posted on 12/21/2011 3:14:45 PM PST by pgkdan ("Make what Americans buy, Buy what Americans make, and sell it to the world" Perry 2012)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I thought Muqti al Sadr would begin the festivities.


11 posted on 12/21/2011 3:39:22 PM PST by ntnychik
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To: MinorityRepublican

They are getting ready to rock and roll in Iraq.

Errrr-————Maybe that’s Lock and Load.

If the Christians left there are lucky the Muslims will kill one another and leave the Christians alone.


12 posted on 12/21/2011 3:45:11 PM PST by Venturer
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I wonder...will we get utube videos of them killing each other? Get me some popcorn...


13 posted on 12/21/2011 6:34:29 PM PST by hal ogen (1st Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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