Never mind.....
The 24 Iraqis who were arrested in such a high profile way for supposedly trying to reconstitute the Baath party have been released by Jawad al-Bolani, the Iraqi Interior Minister, who says there is np evidence to back up their arrests.
This is a huge blow for Maliki as the arrests were carried out by "an elite counterterrorism force that reports directly to" him.
All of this has to do with the provincial elections which are scheduled for January.
Related: (AP) The judge in the case says Al Zaidi, the shoe thrower, was beaten.
(On Wednesday, the Iraqi parliament came to gridlock over the shoe throwing incident, with the Speaker threatening to resign. Maliki's politics are getting very hard.
Were the Sunni arrests (Thursday) an attempt to change the subject?)
This is a huge blow for Maliki as the arrests were carried out by "an elite counterterrorism force that reports directly to" him.
All of this has to do with the provincial elections which are scheduled for January.
Related: (AP) The judge in the case says Al Zaidi, the shoe thrower, was beaten.
(On Wednesday, the Iraqi parliament came to gridlock over the shoe throwing incident, with the Speaker threatening to resign. Maliki's politics are getting very hard.
Were the Sunni arrests (Thursday) an attempt to change the subject?)
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