Kiss of death for Maliki

This is the latest post in a thread I started on November 29, 2006 on The Augusta Chronicle bulletin board titled Kiss of death for Maliki. I started that thread in response to revelations that Bush's National Security Adviser had written a memo critical of "democratically elected" Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki who heads the once touted national "unity" government of a nominally "sovereign" Iraq. Yeah, right! Now, Saudi Arabia as well a Iyad Allawi and Zalmay Khlilzad seem to be on Maliki's case. Maliki's days in office appear to be numbered.

Juan Cole [Informed Comment] 21 March 2007

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Al-Zaman reports in Arabic that Saudi Arabia and Jordan invited Massoud Barzani, the president of Iraqi Kurdistan, for consultations in hopes of detaching him from his alliance with the fundamentalist Shiite parties. Al-Zaman says that its sources in Riyadh say that the Saudi royal family increasingly sees Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of the Shiite Islamic Call (Da'wa) Party as an obstacle to any movement toward peace and reconciliation. Al-Maliki was prominent in the Debaathification Commission that was punitive toward Sunni Arabs, and has during the past year had a tacit alliance with the Sadr Movement and its Mahdi Army militia, which many Sunnis believe comprises death squads that kill Sunni Arabs in the dark of night.

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