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Iraq in danger of re-igniting

So much for the "success" of the Iraq War....as Iraqi politician Hassan al-Alawi warning of the country re-igniting.   So very typical of the Western media, the Iraqi politician's remarks were reported in the Arab press and not in the West.

"Many of the recent meetings held by Iraqi political leaders aimed at getting Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki removed from office took place at the Erbil home of veteran politician Hassan al-Alawi.

It is the Kurdish-Shia alliance that made Nouri al-Maliki prime minister and Massoud Barzani president of the Kurdistan region.Once at the forefront of those calling for the Baghdad parliament to convene to pass a vote of no-confidence in the government, the head of the al-Iraqiya al-Bayda bloc in parliament no longer supports the idea.

“If there were to be such a session, the speaker of parliament would be assaulted, and the members would split into two groups fighting each other with chairs and knives,” he told Al-Akhbar in an interview. “It would be a scandal for parliament which I would rather avoid.”




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"Alawi warned that Iraq could be headed for a fresh bout of strife. “The fear now is of an intra-Shia war between the Sadrist current on one side and government forces and the Ahl al-Haq militia on the other, “ he said. “Intra-Shia conflict and the conflict within the political class make it easier for beneficiaries of the regional countries to intervene, and to detonate the situation.”

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