Officials Charged with Spying* Released
The employees of the Interior and Defense ministries who were arrested earlier this week were released on Friday at the insistence of Interior Minister Jawad al-Bulani, who just returned from abroad. He appears to have seen the arrests as a strike at him and his ministry.
Muntazir al-Zaydi, the journalist who shoebushed the US president, will press charges against the people he said beat him when he was taken into custody. Iraqis in several cities have continued to stage protests over al-Zaidi's imprisonment and prosecution.
The Iraqi government rejected the attempt by the provincial council in Ninevah to post pone the provincial election in that province.
posted by Juan Cole @ 12/20/2008 01:33:00 AM
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Bolani, the Interior Minister, is backed by the Americans, which goes to explain how he managed to override the PM's committee.
But I think that Maliki genuinely beleived that there was a plot against him. The man, like most of the Green Zone Iraqis, suffers from acute paranoia, and lives in a bubble of 77 close advisors who can manipulate him, and who also suffer from paranoia.
The Green Zone gangsters cannot believe their luck, and most of them will do absolutely anything to stay in power, and try to expand it.
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