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Sadr's aide threatens Allawi of facing 'hell' if elite included in Cabinet

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Iraq's incoming prime minister will face "hell" and be removed within days if he includes members of the political elite in his cabinet, a top aide to cleric Moqtada Sadr has warned.

Premier-designate Mohammad Allawi has until March 2to form a new cabinet, to be put to the protest-rocked country's parliament for a vote of confidence. 

Thousands of anti-government demonstrators have already rejected his nomination as prime minister.

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Allawi to be replaced if failed to form gov’t by March: Expert

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Legal expert Tareq Harb said on Sunday that the constitutional period specified for Prime Minister-designate Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi to choose his cabinet expires on March 2nd.

In case Allawi fails to form his government before this deadline, the President of the Republic is obligated to assign another person, according to the constitution, Harb added.

 

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13 minutes ago, Pitcher said:

Allawi to be replaced if failed to form gov’t by March: Expert

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Legal expert Tareq Harb said on Sunday that the constitutional period specified for Prime Minister-designate Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi to choose his cabinet expires on March 2nd.

In case Allawi fails to form his government before this deadline, the President of the Republic is obligated to assign another person, according to the constitution, Harb added.

 

 

Thanks Pitcher.

 

Something tells me that this merry-go-round could be a bit dizzy since the Irainian puppets in the GOI can make this just another headache.  What they/we need to do is take this jackwaggon Sadr to task and send him back to Iran where he belongs along with all the other Irainian sympathizers.  Between Sadr, Malarky, et al. as long as they keep in the spot light and opening there mouths we will still be here for a very long time.  And that is not what I/we want.  So here is to hoping Allawi is up to the task and gets this done.  I would like to hear what @Adam Montana has to say about this.  Something or just another big nothing??????

 

SR

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Maybe Allawi should go to the public, and let them know what Sadr is demanding. Make it public knowledge. Maybe Sadr will be forced to back down. The people/rioters will know who to target for their problems. Maybe that would make Sadr go into hiding. Long enough for Iraq to finally get their house in order!  :twocents::shrug:

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2-9-2020   Intel Guru Footforward  ...I'm now aware that it seems Sadr is on the run and Allawi is actually winning people over. AND there will be a full cabinet sat with ZERO Iranian influence. As a matter of fact, several outlets are reporting that Sadr (who is an Iranian puppet) is actually in Iran right now and that Allawi is actually meeting with the people of Iraq to hear their concerns and make sure they are addressed. For real. This is not fake news!

I do know if is true found it on internet.

Do you know name of Bistro at exit off I-26 coming from JC exit left 50 feet on  Merrimon Ave

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47 minutes ago, GaryLynn said:

2-9-2020   Intel Guru Footforward  ...I'm now aware that it seems Sadr is on the run and Allawi is actually winning people over. AND there will be a full cabinet sat with ZERO Iranian influence. As a matter of fact, several outlets are reporting that Sadr (who is an Iranian puppet) is actually in Iran right now and that Allawi is actually meeting with the people of Iraq to hear their concerns and make sure they are addressed. For real. This is not fake news!

I do know if is true found it on internet.

Do you know name of Bistro at exit off I-26 coming from JC exit left 50 feet on  Merrimon Ave

Ummm what?

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1 hour ago, Pitcher said:

 

Im thinking the US should take over Iraq and install a new Government that is not Iranian.  At the same time stop the auctions and give the people of Iraq some real buying power.  Then watch the Investment money from around the world come pouring into Iraq to rebuild.  It worked in Japan, Germany, and South Korea.  It would work in Iraq as well.  

 

Agree with you a million percent on that Pitcher.  I think that would be the best thing to happen.  It's a win, win, win, win.  A win for Iraq, A win for the US, a bigger win for the people of Iraq, and a win for us dinar holders.  If there is ever going to be peace in the ME we need to be involved in some way that shows the US knows a thing or two on how to run a country.  Well if the right leader is in charge, MAGA, KAG, and MIGA.

 

SR

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4 hours ago, Pitcher said:

 

Im thinking the US should take over Iraq and install a new Government that is not Iranian.  At the same time stop the auctions and give the people of Iraq some real buying power.  Then watch the Investment money from around the world come pouring into Iraq to rebuild.  It worked in Japan, Germany, and South Korea.  It would work in Iraq as well.  

Already happening...

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Pitcher, i always enjoy hearing from you. Although this idea of the US taking charge

of the country has already been tried and failed miserably . Remember Mr Bremmer and

the US pick Prime minister Maliki. We will never understand the mid east culture. Our own

so called democracy is barely working as we speak. We are in no position to teach how a 

country is supposed to be run......imho..

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23 hours ago, Pitcher said:

 

Im thinking the US should take over Iraq and install a new Government that is not Iranian.  At the same time stop the auctions and give the people of Iraq some real buying power.  Then watch the Investment money from around the world come pouring into Iraq to rebuild.  It worked in Japan, Germany, and South Korea.  It would work in Iraq as well.  

OMG, that is too perfect, email Washington asap regarding this.  Seriously.

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On 2/9/2020 at 6:35 PM, Pitcher said:

 

Im thinking the US should take over Iraq and install a new Government that is not Iranian.  At the same time stop the auctions and give the people of Iraq some real buying power.  Then watch the Investment money from around the world come pouring into Iraq to rebuild.  It worked in Japan, Germany, and South Korea.  It would work in Iraq as well.  

 

Thanks for your opinion, Pitcher. Unfortunately the world has changed dramatically over the last several decades - the UN, the entire Muslim world, Russia and China would come unglued. The repercussions would far outweigh any benefit we might initially experience...JMHO..! :salute:

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Thinking he forms  a government or **** is going to hit the fan! Power to the people.    
 

Don’t know what else to say.... except that the Fat Lady has kicked me to stage left , and signed with a new talent agency.  She is through climbing  on and off the stage waiting for these perverted fu*ks to get their **** straight.  
RO

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19 hours ago, Donziman said:

Pitcher, i always enjoy hearing from you. Although this idea of the US taking charge

of the country has alread

 

9 hours ago, ronscarpa said:

Thanks for your opinion, Pitcher. Unfortunately the world has changed dramatically over the last several decades - the UN, the entire Muslim world, Russia and China would come unglued. The repercussions would far outweigh any benefit we might initially experience...JMHO..

 

 

Agree with both of you.  It’s very frustrating to see the same political baloney played out over and over while the people of Iraq and Iran are held captive by a few greedy people.  Both those countries could be so much better off by trying peace and stopping the plunder of the countries oil wealth by a handful of evil people.  My suggestion was more of a wishful thinking deal.  

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53 minutes ago, Pitcher said:

Agree with both of you.  It’s very frustrating to see the same political baloney played out over and over while the people of Iraq and Iran are held captive by a few greedy people.  Both those countries could be so much better off by trying peace and stopping the plunder of the countries oil wealth by a handful of evil people.  My suggestion was more of a wishful thinking deal.  

 

Thanks again Pitcher, I agree with you.  Unfortunately there are forces at work behind, and in, all the World  governments, who manipulate circumstances and nations to their own nefarious ends. It goes to the drive for a one world government. People are just pawns to them. I have my own suspicions as to who they are.

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Sadr waffles alot lately.....   CL

 

"I announce the dissolution of the 'blue caps,' and I do not accept the (Sadrist) movement's presence in and of itself at the protests, unless it is absorbed into them," he tweeted.

 

In the early days of the movement, Sadr supporters were seen as the most organised and well-stocked of the demonstrators but his recent tweets have infuriated activists.

 

After backing Allawi, he ordered the "blue caps" to help security forces reopen schools, roads and public offices shut down for months by anti-government sit-ins.

 

But Sadr has insisted that his movement ultimately wants "reforms".

 

Allawi has until March 2 to form his cabinet, and is expected to govern only until early parliamentary elections.

 

"We hear that there are pressures from political parties and from sects over the forming of the temporary government," Sadr tweeted on Tuesday.

 

"This could lead us to completely wash our hands of all of it."

 

Sadr already controls the largest parliamentary bloc and top ministerial positions in the current government.

 

But one of his senior aides said Saturday that the new prime minister must not include members of the political elite in his new cabinet.

 

"If Sayyed (Lord) Moqtada hears that Allawi has granted a ministry to any side, specifically the Shiite armed factions, Iraq will turn into hell for him and will topple him in just three days," Kadhem Issawi said.

 

Iraq, if nothing more, is consistent in their inability!

 

CL

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Iraqi police clash with protesters, try to clear main sit-ins in Baghdad and Basra

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Iraqi security forces clashed with protesters, wounding seven of them in Baghdad on Saturday after authorities began to remove concrete barriers erected for months near a main anti-government demonstration site, medics and Reuters witnesses said. 

Police in Basra meanwhile raided a sit-in overnight and deployed in force early on Saturday in an attempt to clear the main protest camp and open up roads blocked off by demonstrators in the southern city, security sources said. 
The security forces arrested 16 demonstrators in Basra, the sources said.

The moves by security forces, which appeared to be aimed at ending months of anti-government unrest, came after supporters of the powerful populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr began packing up their tents and leaving sit-ins. 

Sadr wrote on Twitter late on Friday that he would halt any involvement by his supporters in demonstrations that have called since October for the removal of Iraq’s ruling elite.

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Tehran-backed Hezbollah steps in to guide Iraqi militias in Soleimani's wake

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Shortly after Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq, the Tehran-backed Lebanese organization Hezbollah urgently met with Iraqi militia leaders, seeking to unite them in the face of a huge void left by their powerful mentor’s death, two sources with knowledge of the meetings told Reuters.

The meetings were meant to coordinate the political efforts of Iraq’s often-fractious militias, which lost not only Soleimani but also Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a unifying Iraqi paramilitary commander, in the Jan. 3 attack at Baghdad airport, the sources said.

While offering few details, two additional sources in a pro-Iran regional alliance confirmed that Hezbollah, which is sanctioned as a terrorist group by the United States, has stepped in to help fill the void left bySoleimani in guiding the militias. 

All sources in this article spoke on condition of anonymity to address sensitive political activities rarely addressed in public. Officials with the governments ofIraq and Iran did not respond to requests for comment, nor did a spokesperson for the militia groups.

The discussions shed light on how Iran and its allied groups are trying to cement control in the unstable Middle East, especially in the wake of the devastating U.S. attack on a revered Iranian military leader.

The Tehran-backed militias are critical to Iran’s efforts to maintain control over Iraq, where the U.S. still maintains some 5,000 troops. The country has experienced years of civil war since U.S. forces toppled Saddam Hussein and more recently, the government - and the militias - have faced growing protests against Iran’s influence in the country. Iran helped found some Iraqi militia groups.

In the months ahead of his death, Soleimani had waded ever deeper into the Iraq crisis, holding meetings with the Iraqi militias in Baghdad as Tehran sought to defend its allies and interests in its power struggle with the United States, one of the two Iraqi sources said.

Hezbollah’s involvement marks an expansion of its role in the region. The Shi’ite group, founded by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in 1982, has been at the heart of Iran’s regional strategy for years, helping Soleimani to train paramilitary groups in both Iraq and Syria.

One pro-Iran regional official said Hezbollah’s guidance of the militias would continue until the new leadership in the Quds Force – a unit of the Revolutionary Guards led by Soleimani since 1998 – gets a handle on the political crisis in Iraq.

The meetings between Hezbollah and Iraqi militia leaders began in January, just days after Soleimani’s assassination, the two Iraqi sources said. Reuters couldn’t confirm the number of meetings or where they took place. One source said they were in Beirut and the other said they were either in Lebanon or Iran.

Sheikh Mohammad al-Kawtharani, the Hezbollah representative in Iraq who worked closely with Soleimani for years to guide the Iraqi militias, hosted the meetings, the Iraqi sources said.

Kawtharani picked up where Soleimani left off, the Iraqi sources said. The sources said Kawtharani berated the groups, as Soleimani had done in one of his final meetings with them, for failing to come up with a unified plan to contain popular protests against the Baghdad government and the paramilitaries that dominate it. 

The government and militia groups have killed hundreds of protesters but not managed to contain the rebellion.

Kawatharani also urged a united front in picking a new Iraqi prime minister, the Iraqi sources said. Since then, former Iraqi communications minister Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi has been named - a development welcomed by Iran and accepted by the militia-linked parties it backs but opposed by protesters.

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Why Iraq's youthful protests endure

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Iraq’s capital of Baghdad was carpeted with a rare snowfall Tuesday. 

It brought people onto the streets to make snowmen together and join in friendly snowball fights. 

The collective experience was an apt reflection of the past four months in Iraq. Since Oct. 1, tens of thousands of young people have maintained nonviolent and leaderless protests in major cities, hoping to redefine the meaning of community for Iraq. 

So far, despite the killing of more than 500 demonstrators, neither the protesters nor their shared vision has melted away.

With nearly half of Iraqis under age 21, the protesters are as difficult to ignore as are their idealistic aims. 

They focus on creating a secular state that respects civic rights and an end to a type of government in which power and oil wealth are divvied up by religious and ethnic groups. They also want foreign powers (namely Iran) to stop meddling in Iraqi affairs.

Such aims are similar to those raised during months of protests in nearby Lebanon. In both countries, the uprising has led to the downfall of a prime minister and an uneasy tension with the political elite over who will run government. 

In Iraq, the protesters have a powerful ally, the revered Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. He has called for an end to the killing of protesters and for free and fair elections “as soon as possible.” A new government, he says, must earn the people’s trust.

Because of Iraq’s pivotal position in the Middle East, its protests may be the most significant of the many youthful protests that erupted worldwide in 2019 from Chile to Algeria to Hong Kong. 

If one element binds these grassroots movements, it has been the rejection of how governments have been organized and an embrace of inclusive democracy based on universal principles.

In a speech Monday, Achim Steiner, administrator of the United Nations Development Program, described this global trend in its broadest meaning:

“From the grassroots, to the business communities, to people voting with their feet in protest, mature democracies and autocracies alike are experiencing a new form of community today – a new form of people power – representing a profound shift in the global landscape of collaboration and dissent....

“We once thought of a community as a group of people who live in the same geographic area, or who share socio-economic, ethnic, linguistic, or religious characteristics. 

The evolving global context, including the extent to which new technologies have empowered communication and information-sharing at the individual-level, requires us to embrace a far wider definition.

“Many communities that drive change now cut across the boundaries of class, geography, language, religion, political orientation, and identity. They do not ‘respect’ the typologies of the past.

“What binds them together is shared experience, understanding, belief, and common visions and ways of working.”

His explanation helps justify the close attention to the protests in Iraq. A new meaning of community may be forming, one that could reshape a troubled region. Like a blanket of snow, young Iraqis are bringing a country together in a way it rarely experiences.

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