Whatever little Maliki had going, it just hit a wall.

(Telegraph) A broad alliance of non-SIIC Shia, Sunnis, and secularists has formed in the Iraqi parliament to challenge the SIIC/Kurd domination. Their primary issues appear to be Kurdish oil deals with foreign companies, the disposition of Kirkuk, and stopping the SIIC from creating a "regional" Shia bloc in the south. (Juan Cole has more.)

(And, reading a number of pieces on the deBaathification law, I'm going to stick with my analysis from yesterday.)