A senior Iraqi spy has accused the prime minister, Nour al-Maliki, of handing out thousands of guns to tribal leaders in a bid to win votes. The claim was made by Iraqi National Intelligence Service former spokesman, Saad al-Alusi, a week before Iraq's general election, in which allegations of vote buying and exorbitant handouts have become
widespread.
<span>Maliki, who faces a bitterly contested final week of campaigning ahead of the7 March poll, has been photographed handing out guns to supporters in southern Iraq, engraved with a personal message from his office. However he denies that the delivery of weapons, along with cash payments, were improper.
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PM Maliki really is a great leader VZA. Under his stewardship violent attacks against the IA and IP fell by 95%. They had an uptick in February; but remain down more than 90% from 2006.
ReplyDeletePM Maliki defeated all the Sunni Arab dictators and destroyed the extremist Shiite backed militias.
Propaganda alert!
ReplyDeleteWhat Propoganda?
ReplyDeletePM Maliki won a war.
An Iraqi friend of mine told me that Iraq was at war with 15 countries. [He included Iran in the list with Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt]
PM Maliki has negotiated terms with global energy majors (plurality Chinese ones) to increase oil production to 10-12 million barrels a day; at bargain basement production costs to the Iraqi state. If the international companies fail to achieve the contractual production targets; they need to pay the Iraqi Government a fine.
Maliki helped extract more than $60 billion in grants from US taxpayers; including all sorts of weapons and training for the Iraqi Army and Iraqi Air Force.
>:o
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