http://www.daralhayat.com/arab_news/...jpg_200_-1.jpg Waging officials and Iraqi leaders difficult negotiations to expand the participation of lumps and prominent Sunni in the government and amending the Constitution to fulfill pledges Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki at the Sharm el-Sheikh.
Maliki held a series of meetings with notably Vice President Tariq Al-Hashmi, who had threatened to withdraw from the government and the parliament within one week, while deliberated bloc «Alliance» Shiite powers that can be waived, including a proposal for the withdrawal of some American security powers of the prime minister to be in the hands of the Presidency and the cost Hashemi supervision.
Security renewed suicide attacks on Najaf governorate, collapsed yesterday, about 16 people were killed and about 70 others wounded by a car amid Kufa (150 km south of Baghdad) after two weeks of a long attack near Karbala.
Yesterday the American Defense Department, 35 thousand additional troops to be sent to Iraq.
The Shiite religious leader Ali Sistani called, the day before yesterday, working «collection Sunnis and Shiites and avoid escalation of sectarian», and this invitation coincided with a remarkable political movement in Baghdad to find mechanisms to ensure the implementation of the commitments made by the government to itself in Sharm el-Sheikh.
A statement issued by the office of Hashemi Monday evening that he had met with al-Maliki «rupture after long weeks», they discussed ways of continuing the political process. Despite the fact that Hashemi stressed that the dialogue with the «explicitly» and agreed on the mechanisms for follow-up later, but he threatened, during a meeting with the network «CNN,» US to withdraw from the political process «during the week if not ratify the constitutional amendments that guarantee that Iraq is not divided, disbanding the militias, the Shiite», contending that feel «committing the worst mistake in his life, whereas decided to join the political process, if not the test site claimed».
Political parties and believes that the front «consensus» led by the Hashemite realize that the only Sunni party that can be a partner in the government, which reflect the demands of national reconciliation and now aspire to continuing this representation in the long run even if polarizing armed opposition groups. Front realizes that its withdrawal from the government at this stage would change the political map of non-interest components.
The head of the Kurdistan region in a speech yesterday before the European Parliament «efforts to resolve the Iraqi crisis through the separation of religion and state», confirmed close to the former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi conduct extensive contacts with leaders of Shiite, Sunni bloc passing of the founding of the communities inside and outside Parliament were adjourned after its contacts with the leaders Kurds.
Barzani and denied that Ankara had threatened to intervene in the case of the Kurdish minority Turkish wire, but he warned that he would not tolerate any threat. He stressed the refusal to postpone a referendum on the future of Kirkuk, saying that there is «a conspiracy against the Kurds to delay» this referendum scheduled for the end of 2007. He said that «delay will be a source of conflicts and problems in the future».
For his part, the leader of the «coalition» Shiite Aziz Hakim consultative meeting with major mass participation of Prime Minister by the seating arrangement in the near-Hakim former Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari. Sources said that the Shiite leaders «discussed in granting a greater role to« consensus »and meet some of their demands in terms of amending the Constitution, especially with regard to the laws of chopping and achieve a balance in the security forces».
Hakim also met with President Jalal Talabani to discuss the same issue, Talabani met with the head of the Presidency, which includes two, Sunni and Shiite, with the agreement to activate the powers granted to the Council in the security file.
The politicians close to the atmosphere of dialogues that all parties are looking at achieving broader participation of years without making constitutional amendments, and put several options in this regard, including the proposal for the withdrawal of some American security powers of the prime minister to be in the custody of the Presidency, and charged Hashemi supervision.