US Ambassador and candidate for PM succession for caretaker government

[Carrello]

Khvaya entering the U.S. ambassador to line the political crisis in Iraq and al-Rubaie a strong candidate for the succession of al-Maliki in the caretaker government!!

Tuesday 12/04/2012

Baghdad - Hisham Khalid

Informed political sources from entering the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Stephen Beecroft on the line of the political crisis between the Kurdistan region and the central government, to افتين to the Americans put forward several solutions to this crisis, And I mentioned sources added that the the American ambassador in Iraq, held separate meetings with President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd and Masoud Barzani, in the of a time when indicated news to that the United States perhaps exercised great pressure on Prime government Nuri al-al-Maliki from order to stop the the escalating tension with the Kurdistan.

A source familiar with another former national security adviser Muwaffaq al-Rubaie, might be a candidate acceptable to replace al-Maliki in the caretaker government may continue until the formation of a new government, according to new elections, And Search Talabani and Beecroft in the Sulaymaniyah the repercussions of crisis the disputed areas upon between the Baghdad and Erbil, where he confirmed Talabani During the meeting, the continuation of efforts to reach to agreements comprehensive terminate situation المأزوم and the movement of Iraq to a new stage, and called on to encourage the parties for the occur spirit of peace and abandon for the escalation and cramping Media.

The U.S. ambassador held a similar meeting in Arbil with Kurdish regional President Massoud Barzani, who confirmed during the meeting that "what is happening in the disputed areas is a violation of the Constitution and the law, we can not accept at all." "The presidency of the region sent messages to the political blocs and religious authorities in Najaf and Kadhimiya resolve this crisis and that the region will not block the door to dialogue." The Beecroft part seriousness of the United States in finding a solution to the current crisis through dialogue and the Constitution, and said that his country supports all Iraqi parties without discrimination.

MPs in the Iraqi List, did not deny revelations informed political sources of Sunni agreement - to be Kurdish Rubaie substitute for the owners, Attempts have been returned to withdraw confidence from the Prime Minister to appear again, which he referred to al-Maliki told a news conference on Saturday, stressing that he has procedures in this regard without that comes on other details ..

Rubaie has close ties with the Kurdish and Sunni leaders, as well as the strong support it receives from the U.S. State Department.

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[NWGUY]

Good to see you again Carrello, and thanks for the post!!!!

My greedy side, says leave things alone for now, and lets see if we can get this RV moving, without changing horses. My intelligent side (oxymoron) says, get this criminal Maliki, outta there, and prosecute him for all the horrendous stuff he has been involved in.

This whole situation seems to be getting worse and worse, so maybe replacing this "wanna be dictator", will be the best thing for both situations???

Just sitting on the sideline watching the game!

Go RV!!!

[quadkidd1]

Nice to see you Carrello

Things seem to be progressing!

They are looking down the road now and M will be in the rearview mirror!

"where he belongs"

Quad

[Butifldrm]

Hey Carrello, good to see you again. Thanks for bringing the news. I have never heard of al-Rubaie, but if I were al-Rubaie, I would not want my name being tossed around for the PM position, until Maliki is jailed or dead. Maliki's the kind of guy who would kill/destroy anyone who could/would possibly be a threat to his meglomaniac regime. Again good to see you.

[SocalDinar]

Hello Carrello,

Glad to have you back. Hope all is well.

I Had to look up Al-Rubaie, since I too know little about him also.

Dr Mowaffak Baqer al-Rubaie (alternative transliterations Muwaffaq al-Rubaie and Muwaffaq al-Rubay'i) (Arabic: موفق الربيعي) is a distinguished Iraqi statesman and active civil rights campaigner.

He was appointed as a member of the 25 member Iraqi Governing Council by the Coalition Provisional Authority in July 2003. In April 2004,in recognition of his astute understanding of the risks and challenges faced by Iraq, he was appointed as National Security Advisor (NSA) by the Coalition Provisional Authority.[1] He held this post for its full 5 year term until April 2009, when he was appointed as an MP in Iraq's Council of Representatives (Iraq's Parliament), a role he held until Parliament's dissolution in March 2010

Early Life & Opposition Politics

A Shia Muslim and neurologist by training, al-Rabai'i was born in Kadhimiya in 1947 to a Shia father and a Sunni mother, Al Rubaie graduated top of his class at the Baghdad School of Medicine in 1977 and gained his MRCP (Membership of the Royal College of Physicians) whilst at King's College Medical School in London in 1979. In his student years, Al Rubaie was a protégé of the leading intellectual Shia theologian of his time, Grand Ayatollah Syed Mohammad Baqir Al Sadr, the founder of the Islamic Da'awa party, which served as the main opposition to Saddam Hussain's repressive Ba'ath regime. Al Rubaie was a pivotal figure in the movement from its very beginning which brought him into direct conflict with Saddam's regime for which he was tortured on three separate occasions and sentenced to death in absentia the day after leaving Iraq to complete his medical studies in the UK.

While he was in exile in London from 1979 until 2003, Al Rubaie embarked on a successful career in both the UK public and private sectors. From 1979 until 1991, Al Rubaie was the head of Da'awa party's international section and, using his home as his base, was prolific in organising opposition conferences, publications highlighting Saddam's atrocities and fund raising events in order to assist Saddam's countless victims. Following the Gulf War of 1991 and the founding of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) Al Rubaie sought to bring the Da'awa Party into the mainstream of Iraqi opposition with the shared goal of toppling Saddam. This policy however brought him into conflict with the Da'awa hardliners in Tehran and for this reason Al Rubaie resigned from the Da'awa Party in 1991 to become a leading independent opposition figure.

Al Rubaie was a major contributor to the widely acclaimed document, "The Declaration of the Shia of Iraq", July 2002 (http://www.al-bab.com) which called for the protection of the civil rights of the Shia of Iraq. Many of the principles of this declaration were later incorporated into Iraq's new constitution of 2004 under the Interim Governing Council

Active in shaping Iraq's post war political landscape right at the outset from the Nassariyeh Conference of 15 April 2003, Al Rubaie was appointed a member of the Iraqi Governing Council in July 2003 and served until its dissolution one year later. His negotiating skills and impartiality in dealing with Iraq's challenges were identified by all sides and he was appointed as Iraq's National Security Advisor (NSA) in April 2004 by the Coalition Provisional Authority. Al Rubaie was instrumental in forging and executing Government policy by using the National Security Council as the mechanism to influence and direct the various Iraqi ministries. He worked closely with Ali Allawi, then Minister Of Trade, in assisting Iraq's Accountability & Justice Commission in identfying the culprits behind the looting of the Ministry of Defense budget under Iyad Allawi's interim administration in 2005. He also served as the Iraqi Government's lead negotiator in the standoff with Syed Muqtada al-Sadr in Najaf in the summer of 2005 as well as representing Iraq on the international stage at international conferences and meetings with world leaders to rehabilitate Iraq's international standing.

By all accounts, no single person in the formative years of Iraq's nascent democracy had as much impact as Al Rubaie did in legitimising the new political reality of Iraq in the eyes of the dismissive Arab media and regimes whose natural instinct was to reject the new political order out of fear of the unfamiliar. Indeed, Saudia Arabia rejected overtures from both Ibrahim al-Jaafari in 2006 and his successor in 2008 in preference for dealing with Al Rubaie. Al Rubaie was the candidate of choice in Iraq's negotiations with the rest of the Arab League, Iran and Nato.

Al Rubaie played a decisive role in diffusing the slide into civil war in the critical period between 2005 and 2008 as he headed the national reconciliation programme to reconcile Iraq's warring Sunni and Shi'ite communities. Al Rubaie received international acclaim for his achievements in isolating Al Qai'ida from the Sunni mainstream and bringing the Sunni community to the negotiating table with the Shia-led Government as well as his protection of Iraq's vulnerable Christian minority and was awarded the "The Annual Prize For Peace Making In The Middle East" at the House of Lords on 18 February 2009 presented by Lord Hylton of the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East. The award was made in order to recognize from the British side Dr Mowaffak Al Rubaie’s "immeasurable contribution towards the peace and reconciliation process in Iraq" (http://www.frrme.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=124).

U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mowaffak_al-Rubaie

[sourpuss]

Hi Carello,,glad to see you back:)

[Highlander]

Thank you for looking up the background on this gentleman and sharing it socialdinar! He would be an interesting choice however I have gone through the list of current members of parliament and I don't see him as being a member of parliament which means he may not be eligible to replace Maliki in the event they could actually pull off a vote of no confidence. The replacement PM comes out of parliament just as Maliki did per the constitution.

3- The Council of Representatives may decide to withdraw confidence

from the Prime Minister by an absolute majority of the number of its

members.

C. The Government is deemed resigned in case of withdrawal of confidence

from the Prime Minister.

D. In case of a vote of withdrawal of confidence in the Council of Ministers

as a whole, the Prime Minister and the Ministers continue in their

positions to run everyday business for a period not to exceed thirty days

until a new Council of Ministers is formed in accordance with the

provisions of Article 76 of this Constitution.

Article 76:

First: The President of the Republic shall charge the nominee of the largest

Council of Representatives bloc with the formation of the Council of Ministers

within fifteen days from the date of the election of the President of the Republic.

Second: The Prime Minister-designate shall undertake the naming of the members

of his Council of Ministers within a period not to exceed thirty days from the date

of his designation.

Third: If the Prime Minister-designate fails to form the Council of Ministers

during the period specified in clause “Second,” the President of the Republic shall

charge a new nominee for the post of Prime Minister within fifteen days.

Fourth: The Prime Minister-designate shall present the names of his members of

the Council of Ministers and the ministerial program to the Council of

Representatives. He is deemed to have gained its confidence upon the approval,

by an absolute majority of the Council of Representatives, of the individual

Ministers and the ministerial program.

Fifth: The President of the Republic shall charge another nominee to form the

Council of Ministers within fifteen days in case the Council of Ministers did not

win the vote of confidence.

http://www.uniraq.org/documents/iraqi_constitution.pdf

You see he is still the prime minister for 30 days while they form a new government but as we saw last time they took 9 months to form a government and the alliance is still the largest block in parliament so they would retain the right to put up the new candidate for the prime minister position which of course the Kurds and the List would bargain over again just like before. So even with a vote of no confidence (which is unlikely to occur in my opinion) they would in essence be putting themselves right back to 2010 and bringing everything to a stand still in Iraq or Maliki would still be in charge because they would take forever to form a government. Just something to think about.

[Unitedrich]

Thanks for the post Carello. Socaldinar, great information, and thanks Highlander for doing what you do best. UR

[Carrello]

Hi everybody, and you are welcome! It is fun to share some optimistic news with old friends. Revbo said this guy is okay, so I will go with that.

Take care.

[zigmeister]

Good to see you Ms. C and Highlander! A very positive article indeed, thank you Carrello. However I agree with Highlander on this. I know we would like to see Maliki shown the door. It is not going to happen, and imo we all better hope it doesn't. If it did you can bet we will be here for some more years waiting for an RV or something like it.

[supergirl]

Took care of your neg Ms. C. Thanks for the great art.

[BelievingInTheBest]

My first thought is; let's get this ball rolling to replace Maliki. Maliki has delayed things for some time already and who is to say he will not continue to delay things until he gets his way or totally destroys what has been put together. At least with Maliki gone they could get a new and perhaps stronger government started for a stronger currency could grow with it.

Edited December 5, 2012 by BelievingInTheBest

[zigmeister]

My first thought is; let's get this ball rolling to replace Maliki. Maliki has delayed things for some time already and who is to say he will not continue to delay things until he gets his way or totally destroys what has been put together. At least with Maliki gone they could get a new and perhaps stronger government started for a stronger currency could grow with it.

The point is they get rid of Maliki things will really get delayed.

[BelievingInTheBest]

The point is they get rid of Maliki things will really get delayed.

Oh I agree with ya Zig ... It is just that this Maliki is such a pile of _____. Let's hope Iraq can get this done in spite of Maliki.

Edited December 5, 2012 by BelievingInTheBest

[Carrello]

I see the replacement news differently: It is a not a replacement but a threat, with the US behind the threat. Maliki is complying with the subsidy removal requests by the IMF, backing off support of Syria's Assad, no chemical weapons crossed Iraq from Syria that Maliki agreed to, etc. When pressured he seems to be backing off. He is very actively pressing where he can, but this is another threat, and quite possibly the threat we need to get the vital issues completed that he has been promising for years, or his threat of replacement waits in the wings.