Maliki refuses to bow to US blackmail

The following comments come from Vladimir Suchan, via Facebook

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki addressed the nation in a televised speech, saying that the Iraqi government refuses to bow for international pressure for a so-called “salvation” or national unity government in response to the foreign-run ISIS war waged on the country. Al-Maliki described the suggestion of a national unity government as an attempt to deprive Iraqi voters and a coup against the country’s constitution.

http://nsnbc.me/2014/06/26/iraq-rejects-u-s-blackmail-salvation-government/

At the same time, Maliki made the following epochal statement to the BBC:

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has told the BBC that he hopes jets from Russia and Belarus will turn the tide against rebels in the coming days.

"God willing within one week this force will be effective and will destroy the terrorists' dens," he said.

He said that the process of buying US jets had been "long-winded" and that the militants' advance could have been avoided if air cover had been in place.

"I'll be frank and say that we were deluded when we signed the contract [with the US]," Mr Maliki said.

"We should have sought to buy other jet fighters like British, French and Russian to secure the air cover for our forces; if we had air cover we would have averted what had happened," he went on.

He said Iraq was acquiring second-hand jet fighters from Russia and Belarus "that should arrive in Iraq in two or three days".

... The US ... has stressed that the militants can only be defeated by Iraq's own forces."
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28042302

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---Vladimir Suchan

Iraq Rejects U.S. Blackmail 

for “Salvation” Government

NSNBC,

27 June, 2014

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki addressed the nation in a televised speech, saying that the Iraqi government refuses to bow for international pressure for a so-called “salvation” or national unity government in response to the foreign-run ISIS war waged on the country. Al-Maliki described the suggestion of a national unity government as an attempt to deprive Iraqi voters and a coup against the country’s constitution.

Al-Maliki_IraqIraqi PM Nouri Al-Maliki spoke in his weekly, televised address after U.S. Secretary of State left the country. Kerry was reportedly pushing for the establishment of a “salvation” government as a means for “reaching an agreement between Kurdish, Sunni and Shi’ite leaders”.

In his speech, that also coincided with the arrival of U.S. military “advisers” in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Al-Maliki said:

“The call to form a national emergency government is a coup against the constitution and the political process. … It is an attempt by those who are against the constitution to eliminate the young democratic process and steal the voters of the votes”.

During their talks, U.S. Secretary of State reportedly told al-Maliki that the U.S. would not send any additional military personnel unless his administration agrees to forming the proposed unity government.

The electoral alliance backing the al-Maliki administration won 92 seats in parliament during the April 30 parliamentary elections, which is almost three times as many as the next biggest party won. Al-Maliki achieved some 720,000 personal votes, by far more than any other candidate.

Al-Maliki warned since autumn 2012 that Saudi Arabia and Qatar were sponsoring terrorism in Al-Anbar province and beyond, stressing that the subversion did not only target him as Prime Minister but the Iraqi political system and constitution.

Foreign sponsored terrorism aimed at creating a civil war increased substantially when the al-Maliki administration increased the Iraq’s military presence in the southern Al-Anbar province to block smuggling routes used by primarily Saudi and U.S.-backed insurgents for transporting troops, weapons, munitions and logistics to ISIS brigades in Syria’s oil-rich region around the city of Deir Ez-Zor.

A recent disclosure of a person close to former Lebanese PM Saad Hariri to nsnbc editor-in-chief Christof Lehmann revealed that the final green light for the ongoing ISIS war on Iraq was given during the Atlantic Council Energy Summit in the Turkish capital Ankara on November 22-23, 2013, and that the U.S. Embassy in Ankara functions as headquarter for ISIS operations.

U.S. media launched a propaganda campaign earlier this week, describing Iraq in terms of “a failed state” and promoting calls of U.S. proxy, Kurdish “president” Massoud Barzani for “Kurdish self-determination” and “independence”.

BarzaniMost prominently among the media reports was ABC and CNN top-propagandist Christine Amanpour’s interview with Barzani in which Amanpour was asking leading questions, prompting Barzani to make the until then strongest public statement in favor of a separate Kurdish state in the “oil-rich” North of Iraq.

It is noteworthy that the about 300 U.S. military advisers in Iraq pose a colossal potential security risk for the Iraqi government and the Iraqi military forces.

The primary task of the U.S. “observers” is, according to the U.S. Department of Defense, to “evaluate the Iraqi combat forces fight against ISIS brigades”.

It is also noteworthy that the prominent member of the Saudi royal family, Prince Abdul Rachman al-Faisal, has been reported as being a primary sponsor of the ISIL insurgents, and as maintaining some command responsibilities over them.

Substantiated testimony of the person close to former Lebanese P.M. Saad Hariri points out that the U.S. Embassy functions as headquarter for ISIS operations. The 300 U.S. military “advisers” are, in other words, 300 potential spies who could seriously endanger the operational security and success of Iraq’s military forces.

Ironically, Al-Maliki’s rejection of Kerry’s proposal for a “salvation” government and the implied rejection of additional U.S. “observers” could spell “salvation” for Iraq and the Iraqi military