Digging his own grave?

Maliki is tempting fate.

Iraqi PM hands Sadr victory over US blockade.
Iraqi Shiite militants have won a major political victory when Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered US and Iraqi units to lift a blockade around the flashpoint Baghdad suburb of Sadr City.

After reports that the US is backing a future coup he either doesn't care or - just maybe - is being set up in the press to take the big fall.