Shoo Them Away!

"A delegation from The Arab League, headed by its Deputy Secretary General Ahmed Ben Hili, was scheduled to arrive to Baghdad next week to hold talks with the leading political groups in Iraq and try to find a way to free them from the bottleneck they put themselves into. But Nouri al-Maliki suddenly asked them to postpone the visit, without giving them an alternative timetable.

Ali al-Dabbagh, spokesman of the Iraqi government, said that the reason for the postponement was to “give Maliki and the political groups enough time to prepare for the talks,” which I thought is a very good answer, except that it is a big fat lie!"
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