I totally agree with what Jared has said. Also, I'm holding here an investigation I did on one UN monitor, Massoud Durrani. Tahar Boumedra made a statement. Massoud Durrani was going around under Kobler's orders to instigate problems with the MeK and also filing a bunch of false reports back.
Tahar's statement in this document echoes what you just heard. There's also another problem with Kobler. Kobler was also working German businesses as was his wife who was the German ambassador to Iraq. They were trying really hard to get German business to come into the country. So there were two different problems there: one, appeasing Maliki, and two, trying to set up German industry and business.