Maliki office carrying out ‘extremist Shiite agenda.’
Maliki office carrying out ‘extremist Shiite agenda.’
Via Atrios, CNN reports that Iraq’s prime minister has “created an entity within his government that U.S. and Iraqi military officials say is being used behind a smokescreen to carry out an extreme Shiite agenda that is worsening the country’s sectarian divide.”
The “Office of the Commander in Chief” has the power to overrule other government ministries, according to U.S. military and intelligence sources.
Those sources say the 24-member office is abusing its power, increasingly overriding decisions made by the Iraqi Ministries of Defense and Interior and potentially undermining the entire U.S. effort in Iraq.
The Office, as it is known in Baghdad, was set up about four months ago with the knowledge of American forces in Iraq. Its goal is ostensibly to advise Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki — the nation’s new commander in chief — on military matters.
According to a U.S. intelligence source, the Office is “ensuring the emplacement of commanders it favors and can control, regardless of what the ministries want.”
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OF COURSE HE IS, HE IS A LOYAL BUSHIE.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:01 pmooops..What was the mission again?
May 1st, 2007 at 3:03 pmLet’s see how the ‘Unitary Executive’ theory of governance works in Iraq, shall we?
May 1st, 2007 at 3:06 pmIraqis have dealt with foreign invaders for nearly 6 thousand years.
Do you really think we can ‘out wait’ them on their own turf?
I think not…
May 1st, 2007 at 3:07 pmWe can call Maliki – “mini-w”! Yea! Mission accomplished!
Peace!
May 1st, 2007 at 3:09 pmOf course we have been outfoxed Bush is turning Maliki into a dictator to get the Oil
May 1st, 2007 at 3:13 pmWe all learn by example
even Maliki
May 1st, 2007 at 3:14 pm“So America will hold the Iraqi government to the benchmarks it has announced.”
- President Bush, Janury 10, 2007.
“To begin now to tie our own hands and to say ‘We must do this if they don’t do that’ doesn’t allow us the flexibility and creativity that we need to move this forward…That’s the problem with having so-called consequences.”
- Secretary of State Rice, April 29, 2007.
For more details on the latest Bush flop-flop, see:
May 1st, 2007 at 3:15 pm“Benchmarks and Bush’s Double-Standard on Accountability in Iraq.”
“Freedom is on the march!!”
Theocracy here we come!!
May 1st, 2007 at 3:20 pmAl-Dawa, the party of Al-Makiki, has a long history of having a sectarian agenda.
Prior to the deposing of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Al-Dawa had worked for over twenty years in order to transform Iraq into a Shiite fundamentalist state.
Al-Dawa has the blood of Americans on it hands.
[Keywords: Iraq, Islamic fundamentalists, Islamic fundamentalism, Shiite fundamentalists, Al Sadr, Al-Maliki, Al-Hakim, Bayan Jabr, Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, SCIRI, Al Dawa, Death Squads]
See:
0) Iraq: Bush’s Islamic Republic
By Peter W. Galbraith
[snip]
Real power in Shiite Iraq rests, however, with two religious parties: Abdel Aziz al-Hakim’s Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and the Dawa (”Call,” in English) of Iraq’s Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari. Of the two, SCIRI is the more pro-Iranian.
[snip]
SCIRI and Dawa want Iraq to be an Islamic state. They propose to make Islam the principal source of law, which most immediately would affect the status of women. For Muslim women, religious law—rather than Iraq’s relatively progressive civil code—would govern personal status, including matters relating to marriage, divorce, property, and child custody. A Dawa draft for the Iraqi constitution would limit religious freedom for non-Muslims, and apparently deny such freedom altogether to peoples not “of the book,” such as the Yezidis (a significant minority in Kurdistan), Zoroastrians, and Bahais.
This program is not just theoretical. Since Saddam’s fall, Shiite religious parties have had de facto control over Iraq’s southern cities. There Iranian-style religious police enforce a conservative Islamic code, including dress codes and bans on alcohol and other non-Islamic behavior. In most cases, the religious authorities govern—and legislate—without authority from Baghdad, and certainly without any reference to the freedoms incorporated in Iraq’s American-written interim constitution—the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL).
1) Large Turnout Reported For 1st Iraqi Vote Since ‘58 The Washington Post, June 21, 1980
In another development today, Al Dawa, a clandestine Iraqi fundamentalist Moslem organization, claimed responsibility for yesterday’s grenade attack on the British Embassy here in which three gunmen reportedly were killed.
An Al Dawa spokesman told Agence France-Presse by phone that the attack was a “punitive operation against a center of British and American plotters.”
2) Iraq Keeps a Tight Rein on Shiites While Bidding to Win Their Loyalty The Washington Post, November 30, 1982
Membership in Dawa, which means “the call,” is punishable by execution. Dawa guerrillas were known for hurling grenades into crowds during religious ceremonies, and attacks claimed by the party were frequent until the middle of 1980.
3) U.S. HAS LIST OF BOMB SUSPECTS, LEBANESE SAYS Detroit Free Press, October 29, 1983
The source said the drivers of the two bomb-laden trucks were blessed before their mission by Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, leader of the Iranian-backed Dawa Party, a Lebanese Shiite Muslim splinter group.
4) SHULTZ SEES LINK BETWEEN BEIRUT, KUWAIT ATTACKS OFFICIALS IDENTIFY MAN WHO DROVE TRUCK BOMB, The Miami Herald, December 14, 1983
Secretary of State George Shultz said Tuesday that there “quite likely” was a link between the U.S. Embassy bombing in Kuwait and attacks on American facilities in Lebanon. He warned of possible retaliation.
(snip)
The sources said the investigators matched the prints on the fingers with those on file with Kuwaiti authorities and
tentatively identified the assailant as Raed Mukbil, an Iraqi automobile mechanic who lived in Kuwait and was a member of Hezb Al Dawa, a fundamentalist Iraqi Shiite Moslem group based in Iran.
5) KUWAIT NABS 10 SHIITES IN BOMBINGS 7 IRAQIS, 3 LEBANESE ‘ADMIT’ TERROR ATTACKS
The Miami Herald, December 19, 1983
Kuwait Sunday announced the arrests of 10 Shiite Moslems with ties to Iran in the terrorist bombings that killed four people and wounded 66 last week at the U.S. Embassy and other targets.
(snip)
Hussein said fingerprints from the driver who died in the blast at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait identified him as Raad Akeel al Badran, an Iraqi mechanic who lived in Kuwait and belonged to the Dawa party.
6) 10 Pro-Iranian Shiites Held in Kuwait Bombings, The Washington Post December 19, 1983
Kuwait announced yesterday the arrest of 10 Shiite Moslems with ties to Iran in terrorist bombings that killed four people and wounded 66 last Monday at the U.S. Embassy and other targets.
“All 10 have admitted involvement in the incidents as well as participating in planning the blasts,” Abdul Aziz Hussein, minister of state for Cabinet affairs, told reporters after a Cabinet session, United Press International reported.
Hussein said the seven Iraqis and three Lebanese were members of the Al Dawa party, a radical Iraqi Shiite Moslem group with close ties to Iran.
7) Beirut Bombers Seen Front for Iranian-Supported Shiite Faction, The Washington Post, January 4, 1984
The terrorist group that claimed responsibility for the bombing of the U.S. Marine compound and the French military headquarters here may be a front for an exiled Iraqi Shiite opposition party based in Iran, in the view of a number of Arab and western diplomatic sources.
Authorities in Kuwait say their questioning of suspects in the recent bombing there of the U.S. and French embassies indicates a clear link between Islamic Jihad, a shadowy group that says it carried out the Beirut attacks, and Al Dawa Islamiyah, the main source of resistance to the government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Al Dawa (The Call) has been outlawed in Iraq, where it wants to establish a fundamentalist Islamic state to replace the secular Baath Socialist government of Saddam Hussein, who is a Sunni Moslem.
It draws its strength from the large Shiite population in southern Iraq. Thousands of its most militant members were expelled to Iran in 1980 before the outbreak of the Iranian-Iraqi war and joined Al Dawa there. But it also has a large following in Lebanon among Iraqi exiles and sympathetic Lebanese Shiites.
While Al Dawa operates out of Tehran, it is not clear whether its activities abroad are under direct Iranian control or merely have Iran’s tacit acceptance.
8)Baalbek Seen As Staging Area For Terrorism, The Washington Post, January 9, 1984
Al Dawa, according to Arab and western sources, is believed to have had a role in the Oct. 23 suicide bomb attacks on the U.S. Marine and French military compounds in Beirut
9) Message From Iran Triggered Bombing Spree In Kuwait, The Washington Post, February 3, 1984
Al Dawa, for example, is no household name in the United States.
But it is a name important to this story.
It leads us back to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the ruling figure in Iran; to Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the militant Lebanese Shiite leader who has been implicated–despite his denials–in the Marine and French bombings in Beirut; to Hussein Musawi, Fadlallah’s strong-arm lieutenant; to the Hakim brothers in Iran and their connections to the Middle East terrorism industry.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:30 pmDid I miss something here as i thought Maliki ask us to leave Iraq last November when Bush and Maliki talked.
If Maliki does not do what Bush wants. He can appoint another person in his place. Is that correct.
This is not our country. How can we appoint another person as the Iraq
May 1st, 2007 at 3:37 pmvote last year for a PM. What are we doing? How can you call this a democracy?
Bush surrenders Iraq to Maliki’s death squads
by Ahmed Amr
Saturday November 4, 2006
[snip]
A week earlier, the American military had attempted to arrest a notorious death squad leader by the name of Abu Deraa. But because the Prime Minister’s political allies are also the parties and militias that field the death squads – Maliki intervened to prevent similar ‘violations of Iraqi sovereignty’ from taking place in the future. As the Commander In Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces, Maliki was making a power play and exercising his ‘right’ to protect his death squad allies from any interference by Bush’s troops.
But Maliki didn’t stop there. He demanded more American funding and accelerated training of the very same Iraqi security forces that moonlight as death squads. And, of course, Bush had no other option but to comply with the absurd request to provide American tax dollars to further enhance the criminal capabilities of the militia infested police and army.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:39 pmSaddam lite in the making (except this time he is shiite)!! He’s our new guy! great!
A march toward democracy indeed!
May 1st, 2007 at 3:42 pmbenchmark 1 – The Hydrocarbon Law of Iraq
TODAY – Kurds To Oppose Draft Oil Law
In a surprise move, Kurdish lawmakers have announced that they plan to oppose Iraq’s controversial US-backed oil law.
Kurds hold 58 of the 275 parliament seats _ not enough to defeat the measure on their own. But Kurdish objections could delay passage of the bill, whose ratification has been strongly urged by the White House.
But Kurdish spokesman Khalid Saleh has said: “We are not going to support†the provisions in the bill. Some Sunni legislators have also raised now objections, saying the oil law would give foreign oil companies too much power.
So the draft oil law could be in for a tough time before it becomes law. They will be sweating in Houston.
http://www.priceofoil.org/
SO BENCHMARK 1 – - Cannot Happen for a long while especially with Iraqi members of Parliment going on a two month Holiday
May 1st, 2007 at 3:42 pmGet out that FREEDOM MEDAL…
I think BUSH has another candidate…
May 1st, 2007 at 3:58 pmthey’re also carrying out an extremely shite(y) agenda…
May 1st, 2007 at 4:07 pm#13 Tobey Tall
Thanks for the information on the Iraqi rejecting this OIL law. The US OIL companies tried to steal the Iraqi OIL. We know that this was an illegal and unjust war. Bush went into Iraqi for OIL and make his cronies RICHER.
This is good news.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:17 pm“The “Office of the Commander in Chief†has the power to overrule other government ministries, according to U.S. military and intelligence sources.”
Wait a minute. I thought Iraq was supposed to be a democracy. Since when does a democratic state have an occupying force that can overrule anything the democratically elected government wants to do.
Iraq was never intended to be a democracy and the Bush administration intends to occupy Iraq from here into eternity (or until they kick our butts out, whichever comes first).
I was so happy to read today that the Kurds have withdrawn their approval of the Oil Revenue Sharing Plan (really the “steal Iraq’s oil plan). Hopefully that will end that bill forever and Bush will see that staying in Iraq any longer won’t get him what he wants. But, I predict a US backed coup in Iraq soon. Bush thinks that he needs to take back control of the country.
May 1st, 2007 at 4:57 pmJust like Don Rumsfeld’s and Doug Feith’s “Office of Special Plans” because they’re special.
May 1st, 2007 at 5:45 pmAl-Maliki’s Al-Dawa party has been carrying out and ‘extremist Shiite agenda’ for over twenty years.
See:
1) Beirut Bombers Seen Front for Iranian-Supported Shiite Faction, The Washington Post, January 4, 1984
The terrorist group that claimed responsibility for the bombing of the U.S. Marine compound and the French military headquarters here may be a front for an exiled Iraqi Shiite opposition party based in Iran, in the view of a number of Arab and western diplomatic sources.
Authorities in Kuwait say their questioning of suspects in the recent bombing there of the U.S. and French embassies indicates a clear link between Islamic Jihad, a shadowy group that says it carried out the Beirut attacks, and Al Dawa Islamiyah, the main source of resistance to the government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Al Dawa (The Call) has been outlawed in Iraq, where it wants to establish a fundamentalist Islamic state to replace the secular Baath Socialist government of Saddam Hussein, who is a Sunni Moslem.
It draws its strength from the large Shiite population in southern Iraq. Thousands of its most militant members were expelled to Iran in 1980 before the outbreak of the Iranian-Iraqi war and joined Al Dawa there. But it also has a large following in Lebanon among Iraqi exiles and sympathetic Lebanese Shiites.
While Al Dawa operates out of Tehran, it is not clear whether its activities abroad are under direct Iranian control or merely have Iran’s tacit acceptance.
2) Large Turnout Reported For 1st Iraqi Vote Since ‘58 The Washington Post, June 21, 1980
In another development today, Al Dawa, a clandestine Iraqi fundamentalist Moslem organization, claimed responsibility for yesterday’s grenade attack on the British Embassy here in which three gunmen reportedly were killed.
An Al Dawa spokesman told Agence France-Presse by phone that the attack was a “punitive operation against a center of British and American plotters.”
May 1st, 2007 at 8:14 pmThe Shiite faction, Al Dawa (the Call), was expelled from Iraq in early 1980 by President Hussein.
Drawing its support from the large Shiite population in southeastern Iraq, Al Dawa attempted to establish a fundamentalist Islamic state to replace the secular Ba’ath Socialist government of President Hussein.
The present leader of Al Dawa, Hojatoleslam Mohammed Baqr Hakim, is operating from Tehran where he has directed terrorist attacks against targets throughout
the Middle East.
It is uncertain if Tehran is directly controlling the
activities of Al Dawa abroad or if it is just giving tacit approval for Al Dawa’s activities.
In either case, Iran’s support of Al Dawa is unacceptable and cessation of hostilities favorable to Iraq is now the
May 1st, 2007 at 8:18 pmpreferred option for the White House.
Why are you censuring?
Afraid of the TRUTH about Al-Dawa?
Why are you acting like GOP thugs?
Freaks!!!!!
May 1st, 2007 at 8:25 pmHahahaa , kiss my a3s trolls? gee, wheres your wise remarks about this? arent you going to dazzle us with your brilliance about how wonderful it is to see in action. If every troll free thread had this few posts, I’m afraid it might actually get a bit dull out here.
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:35 am