Informed Comment Homepage

Thoughts on the Middle East, History and Religion

Header Right

Donate

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Google+
  • Email
  • RSS
  • Featured
  • US politics
  • Middle East
  • Environment
  • US Foreign Policy
  • Energy
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submissions

© 2023 Informed Comment

  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Uncategorized

Maliki Names Security Officials 27

Juan Cole 06/08/2006

Tweet
Share
Reddit
Email
0 Shares

Maliki Names Security Officials
27 dead in Civil War Violence

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki broke a nearly 6-month deadlock on fully forming a new government by naming three key security officials, who will be presented to parliament now that there is consensus about their acceptability among the four major parties.

I suspect that Maliki’s release of hundreds of mainly Sunni prisoners was part of the deal-making, necessary to get Sunni Arab parliamentarians on board.

Al-Hayat says that [Ar.] al-Maliki intends to present a national reconciliation plan at the Arab League-sponsored conference later this month, which will include a provision for amnesty (for Sunni Arab guerrilla leaders who come in from the cold).

I count 27 dead in this Reuters report of assassinations and bombings in Baghdad, Hawija, Mosul and elsewhere. The deaths include a GI.

Women’s secular freedoms in Iraq have been snatched away.

The USG is acknowledging a wave of killings of gays in Iraq by radical Islamists.

Filed Under: Uncategorized

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

Primary Sidebar

STAY INFORMED

Join our newsletter and have sharp analysis delivered to your inbox every day.

Twitter

Follow Juan Cole @jricole or Informed Comment @infcomment on Twitter

Facebook



Sign up for our newsletter

Informed Comment © 2023 All Rights Reserved

Posting....