U.S. official: Washington is leading an intense behind-the-scenes mediation to quell violence in Iraq

U.S. official: Washington is leading an intense behind-the-scenes mediation to quell violence in Iraq

26/05/2013 (00:01 pm)

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Said a U.S. official told Reuters that the Obama administration meddling in Iraqi crisis since the clashes Hawija and who worked to prevent the escalation of things after a group of gunmen seized the hand Sulaiman Bek, stressing that the United States has influence in Iraq. The agency said that U.S. President Barack Obama weighed the problems of the Middle East ranging from Iran to Syria and beyond, and Obama faces now the war the old new, namely Iraq. Quoted U.S. officials and analysts as saying that the sectarian tensions that remain, which تلهبها civil war in neighboring Syria , have combined to broadcast violence in Iraq and توصله to its highest level since Obama to withdraw the last American troops in December of 2011. It also woke Sunni insurgency against the government of the Shiite-led Baghdad. The defeat of the biggest rebel results of the strategy of “momentum,” which launched in 2007, former U.S. president George W. Bush. And payment of the deteriorating situation, which was overshadowed by the civil war in Syria to what U.S. officials describe as a concentrated effort, being mostly behind the scenes to curb violence and restore the Iraqis to political negotiations.
The agency quoted the White House as saying that U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, a man Obama President in the Iraqi file, contact the Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, and the Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani, and Osama Najafi, head of the Iraqi parliament, part of a tour of contacts on Thursday and Friday. Biden’s office said the vice president of the owners expressed “concern about the security situation” and “talked about the importance of communication with leaders across the political spectrum.” The agency said that American diplomacy aimed in part of this effort to persuade al-Maliki and the security forces not to exaggerate the provocations. And al-Maliki accused his opponents to submit sectarian agenda designed to marginalize minorities and Iraqi strengthens fork ruling Shiites.
U.S. official said that the Obama administration “intervene effectively great” after clashes Hawija to prevent further escalation, when surrounded by Iraqi forces a group of rebels who had seized the hand close Haweeja. Has worked Washington urged Iraqi forces not to proceed with the use of firepower large, has been resolving the situation through a deal with tribal leaders in the region.
agency quoted the U.S. official, who spoke on condition of explicit reference to him, saying, “I do not want to exaggerate the influence , but this is the kind of stuff that we do behind the scenes, “he said, adding that if” there is a real crisis, all of them running to us … We are a neutral party. ”
but that the agency indicate that there are others who say that Washington’s influence in Iraq, which began to wane even with the presence of U.S. troops in the country, has fallen. And follow the agency as saying that most concern among U.S. officials and analysts who follow closely the situation in Iraq is in the birth of the Sunni insurgency groups such as al-Qaeda in Iraq, who believe they are the ones behind the suicide bombings aimed at re-ignite a civil conflict. Says Michael Knights of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, who lived in Iraq over the years and is still frequented by constantly, that “what we see in fact is a kind of zombie insurgency. Mitt back his life.” According to the census Michael Knights, the violence has escalated to about almost a thousand a month were almost 300 per month at the end of the year 2010. He says the U.S. official said after clashes Hawija “For the first time in fact, years ago, we saw people who masked men carrying rocket-propelled grenades and heavy weapons, come down to the streets in a clear manner is very visible.”
the agency noted that the setbacks in Iraq has revived criticism of those who opposed Obama’s decision in the withdrawal of all U.S. troops, instead of keeping on the strength of a resident. The White House said he was unable to secure a political agreement between Iraq’s Sunnis and Shiites and أكراده to pass a law authorizing a military presence continues. In a hearing in the U.S. Senate, headed by Senator John McCain, who opposed the withdrawal of U.S. troops, a question to the Assistant Secretary of Defense Derek Collett how things turn the tide in Iraq, citing the words of Obama that “D-War receding.” And Colette then replied, “I think Iraq is more stable today than it was believed by many several years ago.” Individual McCain stressing “correctly? Do you think this really?, When Re Colette affirmative, assigned Senator back to his chair quickly, saying,” So you do not know things. ”
For his part, says Kenneth Pollack, a former intelligence officer and now a White House official, “I think we will see a significant sectarian violence. But the question is to what extent will this violence bad? “And U.S. officials say Iraq’s failure to find a deal power-sharing stable between ethnic groups and sectarianism is likely to blame. Because the Sunnis of Iraq, and they were dominant under Saddam, are now excluded and the threat, and started firing in the month of protests last December.

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