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Baghdad : Iraq | Dec 20, 2011 at 9:13 AM PST
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Since the withdrawal of the last U.S. troops from Iraq on Sunday morning last, living the country is living on the impact of political crisis compounded by the hour. Calling the Iraqi parliament to hold by Osama Najafi «national conference in», after the issuance of an arrest warrant for Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, and the District of coalition «Iraq» sessions of parliament and the government, except for the repeated calls for greater federalism.


The head of the Iraqi parliament Osama Najafi, said Tuesday, the country's leaders to hold a «national conference in» to discuss the emerging crisis, which saw it was the political process for the «shock of serious consequences, not a good thing». He spoke of «difficult days of the date of Iraq», where he was that the country is «live in climates and resist the U.S. withdrawal repercussions and implications of regional developments and some of Iraq's neighboring countries».

He warned of the continued «sectarian discourse and promotion», urging political leaders to renounce rivalry «ethnic, sectarian and out of the Altqoukat partisan, factional, sectarian and ethnic».

And slip the country in conjunction with the completion of a U.S. withdrawal to a political crisis has taken a serious turn after the judge has issued an arrest warrant and to prevent the travel of the Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi on the back of «issues related to terrorism», with the pursuit of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to sack his deputy, Saleh al-Mutlaq from his position after he called «dictator».


Amid warnings of the possibility of «the collapse of the political process», he decided to coalition «Iraq» (82 deputies from among 325), led by former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, a boycott of the government (9 ministers of 31) after two days of announcing a boycott of parliament, Hashemi and al-Mutlaq are photographs of the most prominent leaders of the list «Iraq».


Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has said that the rapid developments in the country, including the arrest warrant issued against al-Hashimi, were «without consultation and collaboration» with him. He called to «provide the appropriate environment for the work of political calm and stable, which guarantees not to endanger the country and its political damage to any side in this difficult time».

Accompanied by the rapid developments with the demand that the provinces inhabited predominantly Sunni shift to dependent territories, as it is believed watchers of the Iraqi that «the Sunni Arabs are convinced that they can not access to the executive branch, so try to look in their areas for broader authority may increase the Chpthm issue of regionalization », namely the creation of autonomous regions.


Joined members of the Diyala provincial council last week to the demands of other provinces (like Al-Anbar) to shift to regions, and was the province of Salah al-Din had announced in October 27 to maintain a territory administratively and economically independent, which was rejected by the central government in Baghdad. And carry calls for the establishment of a sectarian dimension to the regions according to some politicians, while others see it as a constitutional right.


Nuri al-Maliki has said that these demands must be «on the basis of careful and not on the basis to be part of a federal Iraq on a sectarian basis». In return, the senior politicians, most notably House Speaker Osama Najafi and Tariq al-Hashimi, that the demands of the constitutionality of the formation of regions, and call for their implementation.


The crisis prompted the President of Iraq's Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani, on Monday, to warn of the «collapse» of the political process, speaking for the «Partnership in power are threatened». In turn, said Saleh al-Mutlaq, «the country will go towards a major catastrophe if it continues the dictatorship of Mr. Maliki».


For his part, the White House expressed concern about developments in Iraq, especially after the issuance of an arrest warrant for Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi. Said White House spokesman Jay Carney America is monitoring the situation and reports on the arrest warrant.


Security, killing three people, including two Iraqi soldiers in two separate incidents in northern Baghdad on Tuesday morning, and drew a police source that unknown gunmen opened fire with machine guns toward the checkpoint of the Iraqi army in the district of Taji, north of Baghdad, killing two of its elements in the case. On the other hand, was a fellow employee at Integrity was killed when a roadside bomb north of Baghdad, car sticker today.

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Robert Gates (C) is escorted by staff members of Saleh al-Mutlaq before meeting with al-Mutlaq at his home in Baghdad
Robert Gates (C) is escorted by staff members of Saleh al-Mutlaq before meeting with al-Mutlaq at his home in Baghdad
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