Juan Cole, suggested the blasts may have been a message from the Damascus-based insurgency leaders following the prime minister's talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad.
They are letting al-Maliki know that they will not allow themselves to be extradited and go to the gallows like Saddam Hussein without a fight, and that they can make al-Maliki's life miserable,
The solution is for the Obama administration to play hard ball with al-Maliki in getting him to pursue national reconciliation
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Juan Cole, suggested the blasts may have been a message from the Damascus-based insurgency leaders following the prime minister's talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad.
They are letting al-Maliki know that they will not allow themselves to be extradited and go to the gallows like Saddam Hussein without a fight, and that they can make al-Maliki's life miserable,
The solution is for the Obama administration to play hard ball with al-Maliki in getting him to pursue national reconciliation