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Biden warns Maliki: the clash with the peshmerga red line
BAGHDAD - Basil Muhammad:
Political developments and accelerates field between the central government in Baghdad, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the president of Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani about the movements of the Iraqi army in the disputed areas, which includes Kirkuk and the towns of Khanaqin and Jalula in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad.
And there are fears the seriousness of an armed confrontation with the vast army of the authority-Maliki and the Kurdish Peshmerga forces of the Barzani at a time seemed political moves conducted by President Jalal Talabani to contain the situation in the field and its implications useless and ineffective with Maliki's insistence on deploying its forces in the disputed areas and inside Kurdistan itself.
Furthermore, source revealed senior Kurdish for ¯ "policy" for the diplomats Americans in Baghdad began contacts and meetings with the parties, Maliki and Barzani to end the problem and come to a common agreement for the management of the disputed areas and searching files security and military related deployment Iraqi army within Kurdistan and the imposition of security control at international airports in Erbil and Sulaymaniyah.
The source said the Kurdish One solutions is to re-deployment of U.S. troops in the disputed areas to ensure there were no clashes between the army and Kurdish Peshmerga, is that Maliki rejected this proposal, adding that Washington does not oppose re-deploy military forces in the region if it wants parties to the dispute the and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on the Iraqi file excited for this step because the U.S. administration will not allow the outbreak of any fighting between forces of Baghdad and forces of Arbil on the grounds that this development represents a blow to the United States, which sponsored the political process in Iraq for nearly ten years, therefore, Biden Maliki told that the armed clash with Kurdish Peshmerga is a red line and that U.S. forces would intervene in the event of the outbreak of fighting in Kirkuk and any other area.
The source noted Kurdish that Chancellery U.S. national security are convinced that the movements of al-Maliki to impose control military Kurdistan behind regimes in Iran and Syria, and move this time under the name Operations Command Tigris established by Iraqi Prime Minister aimed at undermining Turkish influence and the influence of countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council which has grown dramatically in the Kurdistan region in the previous period.
And exercising the Iranian leadership is strong pressure on President Talabani, according to Kurdish source, in order to accept the deployment of troops belonging to the owners in the province of Sulaymaniyah's influence Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (led by Talabani) and the imposition of the central government in Baghdad for its authority on the city's international airport, in a move designed to show Barzani as leader Kurdish rebel naughty inside Iraq justified later use military force to invade the territory of the Kurdistan region.
According to the same source, the leadership of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which has influence in Sulaimaniyah asked President Talabani, a declaration that the peshmerga of him and his party, are part of the authority-Maliki, and he accepted to be under the command of the central government in Baghdad, is that Talabani rejected demand.
And the level of Iraq, saw Kurdish source said one of the most important reasons behind the escalation Maliki confrontation with Barzani is essayed earn year under the slogan maintain the unity of Iraq and strengthen the central authority of the government, is that the coalition of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, which includes a slide important political year, he opposed all moves The positions taken by the Prime Minister about Kurdistan, and the stream of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr told the Kurdish leadership in Erbil that Maliki used escalation against Kurdistan for related elections of provincial councils scheduled early next year, and that Tehran is putting pressure on the outskirts of many within the Shiite alliance, who heads Iraqi government to take positions in favor of the policy-Maliki against Barzani.
He accused the Kurdish source of some leaders in the Iraqi army, which has links to sectarian with Iran displays military plans on Maliki to implement the invasion of the city of Kirkuk and the expulsion of the peshmerga and security forces, "brave", stressing that the Kurdish leadership political, military and placed military plans exceptional to abort any adventure by the Iraqi army and Some peshmerga units redeployed inside Kirkuk and on the road between Kirkuk and Arbil.
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BAGHDAD - Basil Muhammad:
Political developments and accelerates field between the central government in Baghdad, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the president of Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani about the movements of the Iraqi army in the disputed areas, which includes Kirkuk and the towns of Khanaqin and Jalula in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad.
And there are fears the seriousness of an armed confrontation with the vast army of the authority-Maliki and the Kurdish Peshmerga forces of the Barzani at a time seemed political moves conducted by President Jalal Talabani to contain the situation in the field and its implications useless and ineffective with Maliki's insistence on deploying its forces in the disputed areas and inside Kurdistan itself.
Furthermore, source revealed senior Kurdish for ¯ "policy" for the diplomats Americans in Baghdad began contacts and meetings with the parties, Maliki and Barzani to end the problem and come to a common agreement for the management of the disputed areas and searching files security and military related deployment Iraqi army within Kurdistan and the imposition of security control at international airports in Erbil and Sulaymaniyah.
The source said the Kurdish One solutions is to re-deployment of U.S. troops in the disputed areas to ensure there were no clashes between the army and Kurdish Peshmerga, is that Maliki rejected this proposal, adding that Washington does not oppose re-deploy military forces in the region if it wants parties to the dispute the and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on the Iraqi file excited for this step because the U.S. administration will not allow the outbreak of any fighting between forces of Baghdad and forces of Arbil on the grounds that this development represents a blow to the United States, which sponsored the political process in Iraq for nearly ten years, therefore, Biden Maliki told that the armed clash with Kurdish Peshmerga is a red line and that U.S. forces would intervene in the event of the outbreak of fighting in Kirkuk and any other area.
The source noted Kurdish that Chancellery U.S. national security are convinced that the movements of al-Maliki to impose control military Kurdistan behind regimes in Iran and Syria, and move this time under the name Operations Command Tigris established by Iraqi Prime Minister aimed at undermining Turkish influence and the influence of countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council which has grown dramatically in the Kurdistan region in the previous period.
And exercising the Iranian leadership is strong pressure on President Talabani, according to Kurdish source, in order to accept the deployment of troops belonging to the owners in the province of Sulaymaniyah's influence Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (led by Talabani) and the imposition of the central government in Baghdad for its authority on the city's international airport, in a move designed to show Barzani as leader Kurdish rebel naughty inside Iraq justified later use military force to invade the territory of the Kurdistan region.
According to the same source, the leadership of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which has influence in Sulaimaniyah asked President Talabani, a declaration that the peshmerga of him and his party, are part of the authority-Maliki, and he accepted to be under the command of the central government in Baghdad, is that Talabani rejected demand.
And the level of Iraq, saw Kurdish source said one of the most important reasons behind the escalation Maliki confrontation with Barzani is essayed earn year under the slogan maintain the unity of Iraq and strengthen the central authority of the government, is that the coalition of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, which includes a slide important political year, he opposed all moves The positions taken by the Prime Minister about Kurdistan, and the stream of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr told the Kurdish leadership in Erbil that Maliki used escalation against Kurdistan for related elections of provincial councils scheduled early next year, and that Tehran is putting pressure on the outskirts of many within the Shiite alliance, who heads Iraqi government to take positions in favor of the policy-Maliki against Barzani.
He accused the Kurdish source of some leaders in the Iraqi army, which has links to sectarian with Iran displays military plans on Maliki to implement the invasion of the city of Kirkuk and the expulsion of the peshmerga and security forces, "brave", stressing that the Kurdish leadership political, military and placed military plans exceptional to abort any adventure by the Iraqi army and Some peshmerga units redeployed inside Kirkuk and on the road between Kirkuk and Arbil.
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