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The Al-Maliki Administrations Dilemma.

The Decision that prompted the Rebirth of ISIS.

As one can see, the administration of the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was confronted with a dilemma.

One option was to let Saudi Arabia use the smuggling routes via the Al-Anbar province to appease Saudi Arabia, the U.S. and Jordan while falling out with Iraqi Shia lobbies, Tehran and Damascus.

The option would have bought al-Maliki time; at least until the eventual fall of Damascus.

The other option was to appease Damascus and Tehran by confronting

the ISIS/ISIL militants in Al-Anbar,

Saudi Arabia,

the U.S. and

the western anti-Syrian alliance.

Two factors may have contributed to the al-Maliki administrations decision for the second option.

One of the primary reasons for core GCC member’s, core NATO member’s and Israel’s decision to launch the war on Syria was

their determination to prevent the completion of

the Iran – Iraq – Syria gas pipeline

from the Iranian PARS gas fields in the Persian Gulf to the eastern Mediterranean coast of Syria.

Al-Maliki must have known that Iraq would be next once Damascus would have fallen.

The second is that the al-Maliki administration is closely aligned with Tehran and pro-Iranian, Shia lobbies in Iraq.

Falling out with Tehran would have been equivalent to cutting ties with the only regional support the al-Maliki administration could count on.

The decision came in the autumn of 2012, when the Iraqi military was ordered to secure the smuggling routes in Al-Anbar and confront

the Saudi – U.S. mercenaries, ISIS/ISIL.

In December, a senior Iraqi legislator issued a warning to media stressing that

plots were being hatched

by Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia

against Iraq, calling on all Iraqi citizens to be vigilant.

A month earlier, P.M. al-Maliki warned that Saudi Arabia and Qatar are attempting to carry out:

“an Iraq style plot against Syria in an attempt to topple the government by deploying terrorists”.

In an interview with the Lebanese al-Mayyadeen satellite network, al-Maliki spelled out that a coup was planned against Iraq, saying:

” Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are meddling to topple the Syrian government are now doing the same meddling to topple the Iraqi regime. Their goal is overthrowing the Iraqi government. Their goal is overthrowing the Iraqi ruling system and not overthrowing me”.

It is noteworthy that the U.S. think tank Stratfor, in 2002, suggested to divide Iraq into three states.

Nouri al-Maliki and members of his administration must have been aware of the fact that U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden has endorsed this plan since 2002, when he still was a U.S. Senator.

http://nsnbc.me/2014/06/15/isis-unveiled-identity-insurgency-syria-iraq/

["America's chickens are coming home to roost." -- Pipeline Patrol]

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