Shadowy Iraq office accused of sectarian agenda

[rodeodance]

umm. missed this yesterday. Reminds me of Rummys's shadow office.


Shadowy Iraq office accused of sectarian agenda
POSTED: 8:27 p.m. EDT, May 1, 2007
Story Highlights
• Powerful advisers are accused of having an extreme Shiite bias
• U.S. military, intelligence sources: Office could undermine entire U.S. effort
• Iraqi defense minister says the Office is a consultation office and "nothing else"
• Senior Iraqi army officer says: "It's people with no power who want to have power"
By Arwa Damon

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/01/iraq.office/index.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's prime minister has created an entity within his government that U.S. and Iraqi military officials say is being used as a smokescreen to hide an extreme Shiite agenda that is worsening the country's sectarian divide.

The Office of the Commander in Chief has the power to overrule other government ministries, according to U.S. military and intelligence sources.

Those sources say the 24-member office is abusing its power, increasingly overriding decisions made by the Iraqi Ministries of Defense and Interior and potentially undermining the entire U.S. effort in Iraq.

In a joint news conference, Iraq's ministers of interior and defense vigorously denied allegations the Office, as it is known in Baghdad, is run to achieve sectarian goals.

"It is a consultation office and coordination, nothing else," said Defense Minister Abdul-Qader al-Obeidi.

The Office was set up about four months ago with the knowledge of American forces in Iraq. Its goal is ostensibly to advise Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki -- the nation's new commander in chief -- on military matters.

[MadMaddie]

1. Um..I gotta question....What happens if the real truth is that

this shadowy organization is fueling the attacks on our soldiars?

We all know that the US adminstration never thinks out any possible negative scenarios...we all know their is no plan B for anything.....

This is turning more trajic by the day.