Ed Morrissey has a highly interesting post up about Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. It seems that al-Maliki has decided that – if he wants to save Iraq and wants to prevent his government from collapsing – he has to work with Sunni tribal leaders. He even went to Tikrit: bastion of the Baath Party, and the place where Saddam Hussein was born. The most important leaders of Saddam’s regime, all came from this city.
Maliki tried to convince the tribal leaders that they should work with him against Al Qaeda… and against the Shiite militias. It seems that Iraq’s Shiite PM has finally decided to completely break with terrorist leader Muqtada al-Sadr. It will be interesting to see whether it pays off or whether Maliki will overplay his hand (which is not very strong of course).
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