As often in Iraq, the truth is hard to discover. The Maliki government is denying reports of a coup and we discover the following:
Initial accounts provided by Iraqi security officials said that Gen. Ahmed Abu Raqeef, the director of internal affairs for the Ministry of the Interior, was among those arrested. But that account was wrong; Gen. Raqeef is, in fact, part of a committee overseeing the investigation of government officials’ possible links to the Baath Party.
Juan Cole has a theory.
The Dish 