MALIKI

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 38 days ago
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Source: topics.cnn.com --- 30 days ago
Iraq's Prime Minister is pushing back against Washington even as he's at loggerheads with key Sunni, Kurdish and Shi'ite leaders at home. How's he doing it? ...

Source: www.nytimes.com --- 34 days ago
The Iraqi government warned that claims about espionage in a book by Bob Woodward could affect negotiations over the continuing American troop presence in the country. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 26 days ago
As the prime minister asserts his independence, Iran gains influence and America loses some. ...

Source: blogs.law.harvard.edu --- 5 days ago
From Philip Carl Salzman Peter W. Galbraith, in “Is This a ‘Victory’?” (in the current issue of The New York Review of Books), frets that there is no apparent way to “transform Iraq’s ruling theocrats into democrats, diminish Iran’s vast influence in Baghdad, or reconcile Kurds and Sunnis to Iraq’s new order.” It is apparent to [...] ...

Source: www.latimes.com --- 26 days ago
As the prime minister asserts his independence, Iran gains influence and America loses some. Once dependent on American support to keep his job, Prime Minister Nouri MALIKI has consolidated power and is asserting his independence, sharply reducing Washington's influence over the future of Iraq. ...

Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 35 days ago
Sometimes, Baghdad's Green Zone, the walled-off axis of American and Iraqi power, is akin to a spy novel. Concertina wire, endless soot-stained gray concrete walls, the speeding convoys of armored vehicles give the enclave a conspiratorial atmosphere. According to legend, key words like Al Qaeda or the Mahdi Army in a phone conversation ensure that your call will be monitored by some intelligence agency somewhere. On one occasion, a western official cautioned that a U.S. advisor to an Iraqi minister wasn’t advising his client, but spying on him. The latest episode in Baghdad’s annals of cloak-and-dagger escapades came Friday with a Washington Post report that the U.S. government had been spying on Prime Minister Nouri MALIKI. The information comes from a new book, "The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-2008," by famed journalist and Washington insider Bob Woodward. “We know everything he [MALIKI] says,” one source bragged to Woodward, according to the Post.The allegations were mentioned in January 2007 by Newsweek magazine. Then the magazine quoted unnamed White House officials as saying that MALIKI’s conversations had been monitored because the United States wanted to make sure the prime minister was not saying one thing to them and another thing in private. The magazine reported that the spying had reassured U.S. officials about MALIKI. However, the Iraqi government found nothing comforting in Woodward’s latest opus ...

Source: www.aawsat.com --- 9 days ago
Until a couple of years ago, whenever I discussed Iraq in Washington, I always ended up being asked one question: how to find an Iraqi Karzai? The reference, of course, was to Hamid Karzai who has ...

Source: blogues.cyberpresse.ca --- 35 days ago
Ainsi donc l’administration Bush a espionné le premier ministre irakien Nouri-al-MALIKI et des membres de son gouvernement. C’est du moins ce que raconte Bob Woodward dans son nouveau livre, intitulé The War Within, comme on peut le lire dans ce compte rendu publié hier à la une du Washington Post. Mon attention ayant été monopolisée [...] ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 37 days ago
Los Angeles Times Sep 5 2008 5:15PM GMT ...

Source: www.kansascity.com --- 34 days ago
BAGHDAD | The Iraqi government reacted sharply Friday to published allegations that the U.S. spied on Iraq’s prime minister. Iraq warned that future ties with the U.S. could be in jeopardy if the report are true. ...

Source: www.alternet.org --- 39 days ago
Signs that the Iraqi PM's stance on U.S. withdrawal is hardening is undermining Bush's plan for indefinite occupation. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 26 days ago
Los Angeles Times Sep 16 2008 2:52PM GMT ...

Source: archive.gulfnews.com --- 36 days ago
A report that the United States spied on Iraqi officials shows a lack of trust and casts a shadow over relations with US intelligence agencies, the Iraqi government said on Friday. ...

Source: archive.gulfnews.com --- 41 days ago
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al MALIKI has reshuffled a negotiating team working on a deal on withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, the Los Angeles Times reported. ...

Source: www.alternet.org --- 32 days ago
Although Bob Woodward doesn't mention it in his book, the true aim of the U.S. has been to figure out Baghdad's real relationship with Iran. ...

Source: clipmarks.com --- 23 days ago
clipped by: tommy2balmy clipper's remarks: "Iraqis have shown flexibility and we hope that the American side shows more flexibility," he said. "If they implement our demand quickly, the deal will be signed soon, but if they refuse our demands, it will face obstacles and could lead to new negotiations." The US said last week that negotiations on the deal were ongoing. Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk Mr MALIKI said he hoped the US would show flexibility Iraq's prime minister has said there are "serious and dangerous obstacles" to a deal with the US on the future status of American forces in Iraq. But Mr MALIKI said there was a deal with the US that all American troops should leave Iraq by December 2011. Mr MALIKI said American negotiators had not yet responded to Iraqi proposals for troop withdrawals but that there were "intensive contacts with the American side to resolve the points of argument". The two countries have so far failed to reach an agreement over the future of US troops in Iraq once the current UN mandate expires at the end of 2008. Their main disagreements focus on the issue of US troops' immunity and on the right of American soldiers to detain Iraqi citizens. They have also not agreed on who would oversee military operations in Iraq. Mr MALIKI said that Iraq's demands were "related to the country's sovereignty". Tags: iraq , MALIKI , us troop withdrawal ...

Source: news.antiwar.com --- 25 days ago
We reported earlier this month that American officials had been privately expressing concerns about Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-MALIKI’s growing independence. Two weeks have passed, but little has happened to change this trend, and the Los Angeles Times is reporting today that MALIKI is still moving increasingly outside of America’s ability to control. The report cites [...] ...

Source: news.antiwar.com --- 2 days ago
Though Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said last night that the United States had made ‘good concessions’ on the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), Prime Minister Nouri al-MALIKI says that there are still some points of contention yet to be worked out. Primary among those appears to be the question of legal immunity for US troops and [...] ...