He estimated that the Iraqi army's gains in strength and confidence puts them at "more than 90% of the way to their training and readiness goals." Senator [Carl Levin] said American commanders are more confident about the Iraqi army's abilities. He noticed a stark change in their views compared to just IO months ago. Senator Levin also wrote in 2005 that taking American troops out of Iraq would send Iraq's political leaders a clear message that an agreement must happen. He argued that a unified Iraq is the only way to prevent the insurgency's success. With U.S. soldiers fighting the insurgency, Iraqi leaders had little incentive to reach a political settlement. Senator Levin pins blame for this on Iraq's prime minister, [Nouri Al-Maliki] al-Maliki. The current Iraqi government, the sena...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The US Committee for Camp Ashraf Residents (USCCAR) deplores Washington Post's editorial ("A U.S. plan to save Iranians who remain in Iraq", Dec. 14), endorsing a US plan for relocation of 3,400 residents of Camp Ashraf to an Iraqi-run de facto detention center near Baghdad's International airport, formerly known as Camp Liberty. The insidious piece, replete with double-entendre and mixing of absolutely no facts and lots of fiction, is effectively a farewell gift to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, on his way back to Baghdad, to set in motion the plan for the massacre of Camp Ashraf residents. The Post is suggesting to have the lives of these Iranians under the control of Maliki, a man, who David Ignatius of the Post has describe...
BAGHDAD - Weeks before the U.S. pullout, Iraq's prime minister confidently predicted Saturday that his country will achieve stability and remain independent of its giant neighbor Iran even without an American troop presence. Nouri al-Maliki also warned of civil war in Iran's ally Syria if Bashar Assad falls - a view that puts him closer to Tehran's position and at odds with Washington. The foreign policy pronouncement indicates that Iraq is emerging from the shadows of U.S. influence in a way unforeseen when U.S.-led forces invaded eight years ago to topple Saddam Hussein.
The civil war in Iraq won't end with the naming of a hard-line Shi'a as Iraq's next prime minister. President George W. Bush, desperate to find some progress in the violent chaos of Iraq, calls the designation of Jawad al-Maliki "awesome." Zalmay Khalilzad, putting on his game face, says of Maliki: "He is a tough guy," before adding, hastily, that he meant "tough-minded." But a man in Baquba, the war-battered city north of Baghdad, had a far more appropriate comment on Maliki. He told The Guardian: "He is a hateful sectarian who has made venomous comments about Iraq and Arabs. Jawad al-Maliki is the final nail in Iraq's coffin." And so he is. The Bush administration hopes that Maliki will lead a government of national unity. But in fact Maliki is just a paper lid on the volcano that is ...
BAGHDAD - Iraq's political leaders reached a tentative deal late Wednesday to form a new government, apparently breaking the eight- month political stalemate that has plagued the country and giving a second term to Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The unexpected compromise, after a more than seven-hour meeting, came after the largely Sunni-backed bloc of Iraqiya, which won the most votes in March elections, begrudgingly agreed to back Maliki, according to a Kurdish official close to the talks and two prominent Iraqiya members.
Iraq's prime minister indicated Wednesday that he might ask some U.S. troops to stay in the country beyond a year-end deadline if most of Iraq's main political blocs support such a decision. Nouri al-Maliki, who has been under pressure from the United States to decide within weeks on a lasting U.S. military presence, said he would call together leaders from the main blocs by the end of this month to begin hashing out a response.
Last month and during a visit to Jordan, Al-[Nuri Al-Maliki] said that negotiations with the United States on the long-term security pact were deadlocked because of concern that the deal infringes Iraqi sovereignty. "We have reached an impasse, because when we opened these negotiations we did not realize that the U.S. demands would so deeply affect Iraqi sovereignty and this is something we can never accept," he said. However, his Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari contradicted him saying that talks were in progress and a deal could still be reached by the end of July. If Al-Maliki and other [Shi]'a politicians have any motive behind procrastination it is to avoid the Japanese situation where a prolonged American presence will allow more Sunnis to rejoin the army, police and government bur...
BAGHDAD - In the week since the last American troops left Iraq, Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered an arrest warrant for the country's highest-ranking Sunni official, threatened to exclude the rival sect's main political party from his government and warned that "rivers of blood" would flow if Sunnis seek an autonomous region. The moves confirmed what many longtime observers of Iraqi politics have suspected since al-Maliki came to office more than five years ago - that he has an authoritarian streak and beneath his tireless rhetoric about national unity is essentially a sectarian politician.
WASHINGTON (IPS) - U.S. officials privately admit being concerned that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki has become "overconfident" about his government's ability to manage without U.S. combat troops, according to an Iraq analyst who just returned from a trip to Iraq arranged by U.S. commander General David Petraeus. S. officials admitted that al-Maliki's overconfidence has influenced the status of forces negotiations, according to [Colin Kahl]. None of the U.S. officials in Baghdad would "lead off with badmoutning the prime minister," Kahl said in an interview with EPS, but upon probing further, "you get a sense they are concerned that the al-Maliki regime has an inflated sense of his power. The al-Maliki regime is a [Shi]'a-dominated government that views its Sunni Arab neighbor...
BAGHDAD -- A stepped-up campaign by Iraq's prime minister against Saddam Hussein loyalists is alienating Sunni Muslims and stoking tensions between them and the majority Shiites ahead of key national elections. In its latest anti-Baathist attack, Prime Minister Nouri al- Maliki's Shiite-dominated government put three men on state television Sunday to confess their alleged role in planning suicide attacks in Baghdad last month. The three, all in detention and dressed in orange prison jumpsuits, said the bombings were ordered by Saddam's Baath Party.
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