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| Uprooting al-Maliki: mission impossible | |
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| ALAN | Jan 7 13, 5:23 Post #1 |
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By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed When Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was asked about the demonstrations staged against him in Baghdad last year, he replied that it was Iraq that started the Arab Spring. This is reminiscent of Bashar al-Assad’s statement to the Wall Street Journal, a few weeks after the Syrian revolution erupted, in which he claimed he was not concerned about the protests because Syria represents the resistance front against Israel. The Arab Spring did not start in Iraq nor is Syria a resistance front. Even if either of these two statements were right, this is not what matters. What matters is what the people there think. Al-Maliki’s only concern is staying in power, but he is facing several challenges, one of which being that he is his second and final term in office. He tried to modify the constitution in order to engineer a third term but failed, and now he might not even last until the end of this term. This is why he is now trying to look for other solutions, such as dissolving the parliament before it votes against him, or holding early elections. Today, Sunday, could be the beginning of the first battle. Al-Maliki, who failed to secure the majority vote in the 2010 elections, came to power as part of a coalition with the support of the Shiites and the Sunni Kurds. Those alliances have, however, changed and al-Maliki is now willing to ally with his enemies, whether Shiite Sadrists or the Sunni Arabs. Yet the latter are already engaged in demonstrations against him, especially following the accusations levelled against Finance Minister Rafea al-Eissawi, a prominent Sunni figure. In fact, al-Maliki has alienated almost every Sunni leader and is on the verge of a confrontation with the Kurds in the north, apparently due to Iran’s desire to forge a route into Syria in order to rescue al-Assad’s besieged regime. Al-Maliki’s main concern is to monopolize power, and so he has also marginalized Shiite leaders like Ibrahim al-Jaafari and the wise politician Adel Abdul Mahdi. He is getting ever closer to Iran and is willing to do anything in order to stay in power. It is important to note that Maliki’s position is unrivalled by any president or king, possibly anywhere else in the world, for he has sole authority over all key ministries and entities including security, intelligence, the armed forces, finance, the central bank, the media, the judiciary, and the policy of “de-baathification.” Currently, he is trying to seize control of the anti-corruption bodies, and the list goes on. When the deputy prime minister said in an interview with CNN that al-Maliki was a dictator, he was immediately dismissed. When al-Maliki fell out with Vice President Tarek al-Hashimi, he accused him of terrorism and conspiracy, and jailed his bodyguards. It will be very hard to uproot Maliki from his position whether by constitutional means, i.e. through the parliament, or by demonstrations and civil disobedience. Iraqis are at the beginning of another rocky road that could return them back to square one; back to when Saddam Hussein was in power and the United States lost a trillion dollars and 4,000 of its soldiers in order to get rid of him and his legacy. Al-Maliki will be ousted, but only after he destroys Iraq in a manner similar to al-Assad in Syria. |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| Kinematik | Feb 17 13, 3:26 Post #2 |
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The U. S. State Department is saying that Maliki will be done and over with by next week. I don't know that I would guarantee it will happen, but it wouldn't shock me one single bit. A lot of this took longer than I thought it would. It pretty much happened the way I laid it would happen. I think they wanted some kind of balance of power in place. The demonstrations were the thing that got us going in the right direction. Najafi called for Maliki to resign. The U. S. State Department is talking about Allawi, that he might be a legitimate candidate for the President of the Republic. The budget is not the lynch pin for us, the balance of power is the lynch pin. As soon as the balance of power is changed in i-rack you will see some kind of caretaker or interim government put in place & we will see some kind of change in the currency fairly quickly. They don't have to be out of Chapter 7 yet. The news is beyond spectacular. The only thing better would be an actual RV itself. Added by Baghdad i-rack on February 16, 2013.Saved under Baghdad PoliticsBaghdad (IraqiNews.com) -A political source revealed that the President of Kurdistan Region, Masoud Barzani, held a meeting with the head of the Iraqiya Slate, Ayad Allawi, and the head of the Iraqi National Congress, Ahmed al-Chalabi, as well as a representative for Sadr Trend, he did not mention his name to discuss replacing the Premier, Nouri al-Maliki, on Saturday.The source stated to IraqiNews.com “A meeting held in Hewlêr on Saturday evening among Barzani, Allawi, Chalabi and a representative of Sadr Trend to discuss the political crisis and the option of replacing Maliki in addition to repeating the request to withdraw confidence from him.”“Among the issues discussed in the meeting is presenting Chalabi as a substitute for Maliki in case the meeting sides agreed upon replacing the latter,” the source concluded.Read more: http://www.iraqinews.com/baghdad-politics/source-barzani-allawi-chalabi-sadr-trend-representative-discuss-replacing-maliki/#ixzz2L6dNzfG4 Follow us: @IraqiNews_com on Twitter | IraqNews on Facebook This is all moving extremely fast! After Barzannis visit to Russia, all the bloc leaders have entrusted him to head the meetings with the EU in Hewlêr . Somehow, we believe the poltical landscape has changed. It seems the blocs that were against Maliki have unified with the Kurds and have allowed Barzanni to head it all! This is fascinating to say the least. There will be many representatives from the EU (ambassadors and so on) to sign agreements since the european framework agreement was put in place a couple of weeks ago. We think the rv will take place before the next weekend is out.Cheers all:))Wait a minute! I misunderstood my cousins email. The EU already met with Barzanni. This is moving very very fast. They must have completely I mean cooompletely finished this initiative... the blocs leaders are working as a unified unit. Edited by Kinematik, Feb 17 13, 3:28.
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| ALAN | Feb 17 13, 5:12 Post #3 |
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You know what the hell with I-rack I hope an earth quake hits I-rack and destroys their shithole country which was picked worlds worst and most dangerous place on earth so only a massive earth quake or astroid will put it out of its misery and I hope they get one, they are genicidal people and given the chance they will finish off what saddam left off. I hope the gulf states suck the blood of Iraq so these Arabized Persians and genocidal freaks start to death
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| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| purearch72 | Feb 17 13, 5:23 Post #4 |
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Hehe alan your getting dictorial. I don't wish an earthquake upon them, but they need something like syria to clean everything up. |
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| ALAN | Feb 17 13, 6:28 Post #5 |
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Yeah I'm just trying to speak like them ![]() specially this is a msg to ssc i-racki thugs, who insult kurds and Kurdistan on daily basis. euphrates comment which was removed by the mods on that massive Ranj tower in Hawler "i hope an earth quake hits the project" underpass or hairypass who ever he is says "i wish Kurdistan was starved and raped by turkey" shaytan guy calls us "mountain persians". so why should we show sympathy towards these thugs/gangs and their familes? have they done so towards our own Anfal and Halabja? lol they are that pathetic they tried to blame these genocides of kurds which were committed by i-raqis on iran :lol: so i wish all those and in a worst way to happen to them as well |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| Qandil | Feb 17 13, 9:44 Post #6 |
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Great news, Kinematik! I hope this is all true.
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| "Kurdino! Bibin yek; eger hûn nebin yek, hûn ê herin yek bi yek." - Cigerxwîn. | |
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| Kurdistano | Feb 17 13, 10:15 Post #7 |
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I hope Barzani puts an article 140 proposal in the agreements which will be made in Hewlêr . So the upcoming leaders do not implement it than we will have another reason to go our way. Never trust empty words.
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| Deleted User | Feb 17 13, 10:33 Post #8 |
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How can we be mountain Persians when Iraqi Arabs actually have Persian influence themselves? |
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| Kinematik | Feb 18 13, 6:08 Post #9 |
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Hi! Could i get some help with this? I wont be able to listen to this and its probably in kurdish I think it starts in 50 minutes http://dinardetectives.com/UPDATES.html There will be a programme regarding the HCL etc which will be broadcast at 2 PM CST (Sunday) - 8 PM GMT. Here's a link to the internet station: http://fire.wavestreamer.com:4815/listen.asx?sid=1 |
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| ALAN | Feb 18 13, 11:52 Post #10 |
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i cant find anything there
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| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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