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Iraqi Coup Foiled
Four generals are among 35 Iraqi officials in the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior have been arrested in a plot to reinstate Saddam Hussein's Baath Party. Among the ringleaders was Ahmed Abu Raqeef, the ministry's director of internal affairs. The raids were carried out over the last three days by an elite counterterrorism force, which reports directly to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal Al Maliki. "The arrests reflect a new set of political challenges for Iraq. Mr. Maliki, who has gained popularity as a strong leader but has few reliable political allies, has scrambled to protect himself from domestic rivals as the domineering influence of the United States, his leading backer, begins to fade," writes The New York Times.
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hehe actually maliki doesn't represent the majority of iraqi's as much as bush doesn't represent the majority of Americans regarding this war.
I had some hope that things wouldn't become as bad as I expected but right now iraq is going through the coup d'etat game that most third world countries go through.
The guy comes to power as a reformer, he faces a real coup d'etat or makes up one to kill all opposition. In both cases you get either a dictator of a paranoid guy afraid of every opposition, even in views, which triggers him to kill it before it becomes stronger.
If there is any hope for that country, Maliki should lose power in the next election because the longer he stays, the more power he gets. Americans don't really get the importance of the 22 amendment.
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