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التي برزت بينهما في الآونة الاخيرة"حسب قوله. <br/>من جانبه قال مصدر في الائتلاف الوطني فضل عدم ذكر اسمه ان "الاسبوع المقبل سيشهد اجتماعاً مهماً للائتلاف الوطني ينصب على اختيار مرشح واحد من بين اثنين او ثلاثة من أعضائه للتنافس مع مرشح دولة القانون على منصب رئاسة الحكومة من داخل التحالف الجديد". <br/>ولفت الى ارتفاع حظوظ عادل عبدالمهدي القيادي في "المجلس الاعلى الاسلامي العراقي" بواقع 22 مقعداً امام منافسيه الآخرين. <br/>ورأى ان "عبد المهدي هو الاقرب الى هذه التصفيات كونه مدعوماً من حزب يحتل اكثر من 20 مقعداً داخل الائتلاف… وفي حال استوجب منصب رئيس الوزراء، بحسب ما يتفق عليه من نقاط، الى عدد اكبر من المقاعد فمن السهولة التحالف مع مكون آخر لتحقيق ذلك".</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10604"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/19/qa-iraq-had-elections-so-why-isnt-there-a-new-government-mcclatchy/#respond" title="Comment on Q&A: Iraq had elections, so why isn’t 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Election Day wore off quickly, however, and the country’s been locked in a state of political paralysis ever since as its top politicians battle to control the next government.</p> <p>The results were an upset: Secular Shiite Muslim politician Ayad Allawi’s bloc won more seats in parliament than favored incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, a conservative Shiite, did. The margin was so close, however, that political maneuvering to change the results has delayed the seating of a new government.</p> <p>Here’s a look at where the election results stand, what happens next and when a new government might take shape in Baghdad.</p> <p>Q: Have the major players changed since election day?</p> <p>A: Not much. The main blocs are still Allawi’s Iraqiya, a mixed-sect ticket with broad Sunni support; Maliki’s State of Law, mostly from his conservative Shiite Dawa Party; the Iraqi National Alliance, the main religious Shiite grouping of Iranian-backed parties, including politicians loyal to militant cleric Muqtada al Sadr.</p> <p>The two main Kurdish parties ran on a single ticket as the Kurdistan Alliance. An upstart Kurdish opposition party, Gorran, won some seats, as well.</p> <p>Q: One of the first snags was an attempt to disqualify some winning candidates by accusing them of ties to the late dictator Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party. Did they lose their seats?</p> <p>A: There were several rounds of de-Baathification, the controversial process of rooting out former Baathists and barring them from public service. Former exile and Bush administration ally Ahmad Chalabi and his deputy Ali al Lami, who both ran in the elections, oversaw the purges.</p> <p>Hundreds of candidates were eliminated, but an Iraqi court Monday ruled in favor of nine victorious candidates whose cases were in dispute. Those candidates are expected to take their seats in the next parliament.</p> <p>Q: Maliki rejected the election commission’s results and demanded a partial recount. Did the recount uncover fraud or change the results?</p> <p>A: At Maliki’s insistence, a court ruled that the election commission should conduct a recount, but only in Baghdad province. The recount uncovered no major fraud and didn’t alter Allawi’s Iraqiya bloc’s slight lead.</p> <p>Q: OK, so now the recount is over and the de-Baathification efforts have been suspended. What’s next?</p> <p>A: The next step is for Iraq’s top court to certify the final election results, which would start the clock on forming a government in accordance with the Iraqi constitution. The chief delay now is the intense, behind-the-scenes haggling over who’ll get the prime minister’s post and other key positions. With no group winning an outright majority, alliances are starting to take shape.</p> <p>For now, it looks as if Maliki’s State of Law and the Shiite-dominated Iraqi National Alliance are pairing up to challenge Allawi’s group for a majority in parliament. However, the Sadrists, a backbone of the Alliance, have long opposed Maliki as premier, which jeopardizes cooperation between the two groups.</p> <p>Also, there’s growing concern that cutting out Allawi, whose bloc was the nation’s top vote-getter, would be unacceptable to millions of Iraqis who voted for him, especially the Sunni minority.</p> <p>Q. What do ordinary Iraqis think?</p> <p>A. The word on the street is similar to the criticism from political quarters: The leadership is too busy guarding its own interests to pay attention to the security and other needs of ordinary citizens.</p> <p>With so many government offices in limbo, Iraqis say, everyday aspects of life have slowed to a halt: obtaining passports, approving state jobs, road and utility repairs, awarding contracts, to name just a few.</p> <p>The longer and bloodier this transition becomes, the more Iraqis begin to question their participation in the democratic process.</p> <p>Q. So when can we expect to see a new government?</p> <p>A. It’s hard to say. Maliki has predicted that it won’t take longer than July. Foreign diplomats speculate it’ll be sometime this summer; religious authorities hope things will be resolved in time for the holy month of Ramadan, which begins in August; and other political observers fear that it could last into the fall.</p> <p>Q. What are some of the main points of negotiation among all these blocs?</p> <p>A. Each bloc holds some powerful cards. Allawi’s bloc is the top vote getter, has the most Sunni support and is looked upon favorably by both the Americans and Iraq’s Arab neighbors. Maliki also won a huge number of votes, is the incumbent and has branded himself with some success as a nationalist.</p> <p>The chief kingmakers are the Sadrists, who want hundreds of their prisoners released and some senior cabinet posts, and the Kurds, who are insisting on keeping the presidency, gaining control of oil-rich Kirkuk and other territories that Sunni Arabs also claim, and holding cabinet positions in numbers that are proportionate to the Kurdish population.</p> <p>Q. What’s the role of the Americans, the Iranians and other foreign powers with vested interests in the outcome of the Iraqi elections?</p> <p>A. Both the Americans and Iranians have played it cool publicly, while meeting privately with all the key players.</p> <p>The Americans prefer a government that includes Sunnis and other minorities and is diverse enough to act as a spoiler to outright Iranian control.</p> <p>The Iranians, who have numerous allies and agents in Iraq, would like to see a continuation of Tehran-friendly, Shiite-dominated government, though some Iranian officials have said that some of Allawi’s allies must be included in order to work toward a more stable Iraq.</p> <p>Q. Who’s in charge while all these negotiations are going on? Are there limitations on the caretaker government?</p> <p>A. Maliki’s administration is carrying on with business as usual, but absent a parliament, the government cannot enter into international treaties, declare war or make any other major decisions that normally would require parliamentary approval.</p> <p>Q. Are there constitutional mechanisms to ensure that the paralysis doesn’t last forever?</p> <p>A. Yes. However, the current government found loopholes after the last parliamentary elections in 2005. For example, the constitution calls for the naming of a speaker of parliament in the legislature’s first session. To get around this and buy more time, the last parliament simply called a session to order and didn’t adjourn it for several weeks.</p> <p>Strictly speaking, once the top court certifies the election results, the parliament must convene within 15 days. In the first session, the members are required to choose a speaker and two deputy speakers. After that, they’re supposed to name the Iraqi president, though the constitution doesn’t specify a timeline.</p> <p>Once a president is elected by parliament, the president has 15 days to ask the nominee of the largest bloc in parliament to form a government within a month. If that fails, the president can ask another candidate from any bloc to try.</p> <p>Q. Will the delay in forming a government affect security in Iraq?</p> <p>A. Many Iraqis, including members of the current parliament, argue that the delay already has chipped away at security.</p> <p>In the aftermath of a series of devastating bombings, including a day when attacks killed more than 100 people, some Iraqi politicians said that militants were taking advantage of the security void, which they blamed on the Iraqi leadership’s preoccupation with political negotiations.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/18/v-print/94397/qa-iraq-had-elections-so-why-isnt.html" class="external" target="_blank">Q&A: Iraq had elections, so why isn’t there a new government? | McClatchy</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10531"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/16/what-happens-next-in-iraq-after-baghdad-recount/#respond" title="Comment on What happens next in Iraq after Baghdad recount?">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 16th, 2010 by Yusuf Al-Jezani</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/16/what-happens-next-in-iraq-after-baghdad-recount/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to What happens next in Iraq after Baghdad recount?">What happens next in Iraq after Baghdad recount?</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/category/analysis-briefings-commentary/" title="View all posts in Analysis Briefings Commentary" rel="category tag">Analysis Briefings Commentary</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-najifi-osama/" rel="tag">al-Najifi -Osama</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-nujaifi-osama/" rel="tag">al-Nujaifi - 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They are just four seats short of a governing majority in the new 325-seat parliament. </p> <p>In theory, the president picked by the next parliament when it sits should give Allawi as the election winner the first shot at trying to form a government and 30 days in which to do so. </p> <p>The supreme court, though, has already issued an opinion stating that right could also legally be granted to the single biggest bloc in the new parliament. </p> <h3>WHO IS TALKING TO WHOM </h3> <p>In the meantime, State of Law and the INA will be talking to the recently unified Kurdish bloc about what concessions will be needed to bring the Kurds’ 57 or so seats into the fold. </p> <p>The Kurds want the presidency, a resumption in their oil exports, and commitments on disputed areas like Kirkuk, which the Kurds want wrapped into their semi-autonomous enclave. </p> <p>Maliki’s envoys will also be talking to members of Iraqiya who might cross the floor if offered a suitably attractive deal, such as a ministry. It will be important to bestow a Sunni tint on an otherwise Shi’ite-Kurdish dominated government. </p> <p>Among those who might be tempted to desert Allawi could be incumbent Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, a prominent Sunni, or members of former Sunni lawmaker Saleh al-Mutlaq’s list. </p> <p>Hashemi would bring with him around 9 seats while Mutlaq’s former National Dialogue Front could deliver at least 20. Mutlaq himself was barred from the election because of alleged links to Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein’s outlawed Baath party. </p> <p>Sunni politician Osama al-Nujaifi, who controls around half of Iraqiya’s 20-odd seats in the violent northern province of Nineveh, may also be willing to deal with State of Law and INA. </p> <p>The inclusion of a large-enough Sunni bloc may defuse some of the outrage Sunnis will feel at Allawi being sidelined by the Shi’ite factions that have dominated Iraq since Saddam’s fall. </p> <h3>WHAT STILL STANDS IN THE WAY OF A SHI’ITE MEGA-MERGER </h3> <p>The pick of prime minister is a hurdle that could yet defeat the plans to create a Shi’ite mega-faction. </p> <p>Maliki, the top vote winner in the March election, insists that he be returned to office for a second term. </p> <p>But he is opposed by the movement of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, which won 39 of INA’s 70 seats and dislikes Maliki for sending troops to crush Sadr’s Mehdi Army militia. </p> <p>Maliki is viewed with disquiet within the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, which has seen its former dominance of Shi’ite politics whittled away by Maliki’s growing stature. </p> <p>In addition, the incumbent prime minister is thought to be viewed by Tehran as overly independent. Shi’ite power Iran has been an influential player in Iraq since its Shi’ite majority was propelled into political supremacy by the invasion. </p> <p>Under the tie-up, State of Law and INA were to create a 14-person committee to decide on a prime ministerial nominee. </p> <p>The formation of the panel has been stymied by disagreement within the INA as to who should be included in it, and by State of Law opposition to the INA side appointing too many Sadrists. </p> <p>The committee, once formed, will have a week to endorse a prime minister unanimously. If it fails, it will then vote on a selection. The winning candidate will need 80 percent support. If that also fails, a new mechanism will have to be agreed. </p> <h3>HOW LONG </h3> <p>It could still take months to form a new government. </p> <p>While the election results will most likely be certified by June, diplomats expect politicians to want a package deal on all remaining issues — prime minister, president and ministries — before the new parliament is allowed to hold its first session. </p> <p>A popular estimate for a new government is August, just when U.S. troops levels are supposed to go down by half to 50,000. </p> <h3>SPIRAL OF VIOLENCE </h3> <p>When Iraq waited months for a government in 2006, sectarian bloodshed took hold. Some fear history could repeat itself. </p> <p>But Iraq in 2010 is different to Iraq in 2006. </p> <p>The 650,000-plus troops and police Iraq now has have proven to be relatively professional, while not flawless, and capable of battling both Sunni insurgents and Shi’ite militia. </p> <p>Iraqis themselves are tired of war, and less inclined to turn a blind eye to or provide a safe haven for armed groups. </p> <p>Iraq has also signed 10 deals with global oil firms that could turn it into the world’s No. 2 oil producer. </p> <p>The allure of booming oil revenues may persuade many who might otherwise take up arms that it would be more profitable to join the government, than to fight it. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE64E02O.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Reuters AlertNet – SCENARIOS-What happens next in Iraq after Baghdad recount?</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10186"> <div 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class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Bloc warns of instability, political influence over courts as votes are recounted in Baghdad. </p> <p>The winning coalition in Iraq’s national elections has charged the ruling alliance with using the courts to overturn the bloc’s slim victory and warned that political influence over judicial decisions could destabilise Iraq. </p> <p>The order from Iraq’s Electoral Judicial Commission last week to manually recount ballots in Baghdad, and a subsequent ruling to disqualify at least one winning candidate from the Iraqiya list of former premier Ayad Allawi, could potentially erase Iraqiya’s two-seat lead over the State of Law coalition headed by incumbent prime minister Nuri al-Maliki. </p> <p>Should this reversal occur, politicians and analysts fear a protracted period of political deadlock and possibly a return to sectarian tensions that could plunge Iraq into civil war. </p> <p>In a statement released on April 27, the leadership of Iraqiya called on the head of the Supreme Judicial Council, which oversees judicial affairs, to protect the “judiciary from political influence, as this may have serious ramifications for the stability of the country”. </p> <p>The coalition said it would hold to account those responsible for “distorting the election results by the appropriation of the electorate’s votes through malicious disqualification”. </p> <p>Iraqiya said it was considering a formal request to the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference and the Arab League to press for a rerun of national elections in an “environment free of any political manipulation”. </p> <p>“Iraqiya will hold legally liable those who are trying to undermine the political process and steal the voices of the people, harming Iraq’s security and its social peace and drawing it into the unknown,” the statement concluded. </p> <p>Iraqiya has been negotiating with other parties to form a government since winning 91 seats – the most of any bloc – in the nationwide vote last month. If the reconfigured results shift the majority of seats to Maliki’s State of Law coalition, it will be a victory for the prime minister and a boost for his bid for a second term. State of Law won 89 of Iraq’s 325 parliamentary seats. </p> <p>“The court is clearly targeting the Iraqiya list,” Usama al-Nujaifi, a senior Iraqiya leader, said. “This is another attempt to prevent Iraqiya from exercising its constitutional right to form the next government. It is one of many continuous attacks against Iraqiya. We will reconsider our participation in the political process if we find out that it will not be a truly democratic one.” </p> <p>State of Law officials have strongly denied manipulating the courts or the electoral process. </p> <p>“Iraq’s judiciary body is independent and so is the electoral commission. We don’t have any power over them. We practiced our right by going to the judiciary and it is up to the judiciary which complaint they accept and which they refuse. We do not interfere in judiciary,”Eisa al-Freji, a senior State of Law official from the Dawa Party, said. </p> <p>“Recounting will not cause a dramatic change to the election results. There will be slight change, but recounting will assure Iraqi voters their right is protected and that law is the only authority in this country. No one can affect people’s will. Also, recounting will return our right to [form the government] and of course it will show people that we were right when we insisted on recounting,” Freji added. </p> <p>But for many Iraqis, power struggles in Baghdad are all too familiar. Some are now worried that a war of words between the Shia-led ruling party and the mainly Sunni and secular Iraqiya could spill out into the streets. </p> <p>“Things are going to be explained this way: the body that issued the ban and the recount is Shia, while the parties that will be hurt by these decisions are Sunni. So any possible progress in negotiations between Maliki’s [majority Shia] lists and Allawi’s Sunni and secular parties has become a very difficult, if not an impossible, option,” said Abdullah Jaafar , a political analyst and retired political science professor at Baghdad University. </p> <p>“On the ground, the court’s decisions can only create more problems between the sects. Sunnis who voted for Iraqiya now believe that becoming part of the government is a distant dream. Their next step could be to take up arms again; they feel there is no other hope for them,” he added, referring to the Sunnis’ perception of disenfranchisement that fuelled sectarian violence after the 2005 elections. </p> <p>A review panel of the Independent High Electoral Commission, IHEC, on April 26 upheld the recommendation of the controversial Accountability and Justice Committee, AJC, to throw out the votes cast for 52 candidates who stood in the March 7 vote. Among those banned, the only winning candidate was Iraqiya’s Ibrahim al-Mutlaq, who was disqualified for his alleged ties with the outlawed Baath Party of Saddam Hussein. The AJC is tasked with rooting out Baathist influence in Iraq. </p> <p>Mutlaq won a parliamentary seat in Baghdad, in a constituency once held by his brother, the prominent Sunni secular politician Saleh al-Mutlaq, who was barred prior to the election by the AJC. An additional six to nine other winning candidates, all aligned with Iraqiya, are expected to be ruled on next week, according to local media. </p> <p>The votes cast for any banned candidates will be discarded. Although candidates have a right to appeal against the disqualification, analysts see this option as extending the already lengthy period required to form a government.  The United States, which plans to remove 50,000 combat troops from Iraq by August, has pressed for a new administration to be in place by the time of withdrawal. </p> <p>“There have been obvious attempts to take the right to form a government away from Iraqiya. All of these moves will only prolong the negotiations needed to form a government. It is necessary to have a government in place as soon as possible in order to prevent terrorists from exploiting the political vacuum,” senior Iraqiya official Alia Nesaif told IWPR. </p> <p>Last week, the same electoral court ruled in favour of State of Law’s appeal for a recount in Baghdad, where 70 parliamentary seats are at stake. </p> <p>Several parties and coalitions appealed for recounts in various provinces, cities and voting stations, but were all denied by the elections commission. </p> <p>Iraqiya officials have pushed for the recount to be expanded to all provinces and have expressed concern that the ballots may have been tampered with in the six weeks since the election. </p> <p>The elections commission has stressed that the Baghdad recount will be monitored by all political parties and representatives from the UN and NGOs. </p> <p>According to Iyad al-Kenani, an IHEC commissioner, the recount should take no more than seven to ten days once the process is approved by IHEC officials. He admitted to reluctance within the elections commission to the court-ordered process. </p> <p>The commission “did not want to recount ballots. We think we did our job properly and there is no need for recounting. We refused requests made by other parties but an order from the Iraqi judicial authority is binding”, Kenani said. </p> <p>“We can guarantee a transparent recounting process and we would like to assure all political parties that they can send representatives to attend the recounting sessions,” he added. </p> <p>Even so, State of Law’s legal adviser, Tariq al-Harb, has little doubt about the results. </p> <p>“We think that hand counting will be foolproof and it will put State of Law ahead of the other lists. State of Law will gain one or two seats from Iraqiya or the Iraqi National Alliance,” said Harb, who filed the recount appeal for the coalition. </p> <p>“I have been asked by the head of State of Law (Maliki) to be in charge of this issue, and I will win,” he added. </p> <p>This possibility has some observers concerned about the fallout from such an abrupt election turnaround that would reassign the right to initiate the next government. </p> <p>“Political blocs should be aware of the dangerous direction in which Iraq is beginning to drift. If things keep going in this direction, the certain result is a serious intractable sectarian war,” Jaafar said. </p> <p>“This time there will be no solution, and no way out.”</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.iwpr.net/report-news/iraqiya-could-lose-narrow-lead" class="external" target="_blank">Iraqiya Could Lose Narrow Lead</a> | By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.iwpr.net/people/abeer-mohammed" class="external" target="_blank">Abeer Mohammed</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.iwpr.net/people/charles-mcdermid" class="external" target="_blank">Charles McDermid</a> – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.iwpr.net/programme/iraq" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq</a>  |  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.iwpr.net/" class="external" target="_blank">IWPR Institute for War & Peace Reporting</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10170"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/30/29-04-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/#respond" title="Comment on 29-04-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 30th, 2010 by Harith</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/30/29-04-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to 29-04-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">29-04-2010 Selected English Language Coverage</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/abu-ayyub-al-masri/" rel="tag">Abu Ayyub al-Masri</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/abu-omar-al-baghdadi/" rel="tag">Abu Omar al-Baghdadi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-qaeda/" rel="tag">Al Qaeda</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-rasheed-hotel/" rel="tag">al rasheed hotel</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-ahrar-party-sadrists/" rel="tag">Al-Ahrar Party (Sadrists)</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-gatoon-west-baqubah/" rel="tag">al-Gatoon (west Baqubah)</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-iraqiya/" rel="tag">Al-Iraqiya</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-mashtal-southeas-baghdad/" rel="tag">al-Mashtal (southeas Baghdad)</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-shab/" rel="tag">al-shab</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-shabaab/" rel="tag">Al-Shabaab</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-sharqiya/" rel="tag">Al-Sharqiya</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-shurta-al-rabia/" rel="tag">al-Shurta al-Rabia</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/alcohol-shops-bombings-of/" rel="tag">alcohol shops - 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There are Shi’ites, plenty of arms available for everyone, political and security chaos, a weak central government and occupation to justify the carrying of arms." </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LD30Ak02.html" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Source: Sami Moubayed on Muqtada al-Sadr and the new improved Mahdi Army</strong></a>  </li> <li>"What has the government brought us in the past four years except prisons and new graves?" <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/0429/New-twist-in-Iraq-election-crisis-Maliki-s-enemies-latch-onto-torture-allegations" class="external" target="_blank">Source: Sadrisdt leader Hazem Al-Araji  on the revelation of torture in the "secret" prisons run by Maliki’s Office</a></strong><strong> </strong></li> </ul> <blockquote></blockquote> <p> <strong>Iraq’s IHEC to start votes recount on Monday: Xinhua</strong><br/> <blockquote> <div style="border-right: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: lightgrey 1px solid; width: 250px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: lightgrey 1px solid"> <p><strong>Editor’s Note: </strong>al-Haidari, also said that there will be a decision on a Kurdish call for a recount in the northern town of Hawija on Monday.</p> </p></div> <p>BAGHDAD, April 29 (Xinhua) — Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) said Thursday it will start manual recount of all ballots for Baghdad province on Monday and would continue for around two to three weeks.</p> <p>"The electoral commission decided to start the recount for the ballots of Baghdad province next Monday," Faraj al-Haidari, head of the IHEC told press conference here. <br/>Haidari also said that his commission would call on representatives of political bloc which ran in March 7 elections, along with media and international monitors to attend the recount process.</p> <p>Hamdiyal al-Hussieni, a female commission member told reporters in the press conference that her commission estimated the recount process to take two to three weeks.</p> <p>She said that the recount would take place in the al-Rasheed Hotel in the Green Zone that houses some Iraqi government offices and foreign embassies, including the U.S. one.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-04/29/c_13272940.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Human Rights:</font></h3> <p> <strong>Iraqi human-rights worker killed by roadside bomb – Monsters and Critics</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Baghdad – An Iraqi human-rights worker was killed by a roadside bomb in the disputed northern city of Kirkuk Thursday, police told the German Press Agency dpa. </p> <p>Police Colonel Salah al-Din Taha said the man was critically injured by a roadside bomb as he drove down al-Quds street in Kirkuk. </p> <p>Emergency responders rushed the injured man to hospital, where he died of his wounds, Taha said. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1551904.php/Iraqi-human-rights-worker-killed-by-roadside-bomb" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> <p><strong><em>See also</em>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/29/shirwan-ubaid-murdered-in-kirkuk/">Shirwan Ubaid Murdered In Kirkuk | Gorilla’s Guides</a></strong></p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Political Coverage:</font></h3> <p><strong>Baghdad vote recount to take 2 to 3 weeks – Conflict in Iraq- msnbc.com</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iraq’s election officials said Thursday that a recount of the Baghdad ballots could take up to three weeks as a car bomb killed eight people in the capital, highlighting again the tenuous security situation while the chaos arising from the March 7 parliamentary vote drags on.</p> <p>The timeline — possibly even longer than it took to count the whole country’s ballots after the March 7 election— means another delay for an election process that has already dragged on for weeks and threatens to undermine the country’s fragile stability. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36852711/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>New twist in Iraq election crisis: Maliki’s enemies latch onto torture allegations – CSMonitor.com</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <h4>Key political bloc pummels Maliki over torture </h4> <p>The Sadr movement, the most powerful member of a Shiite political bloc that had contemplated joining forces with Maliki’s State of Law coalition, lashed out over the torture allegations. </p> <p>"What has the government brought us in the past four years except prisons and new graves?" Sadr official Hazem Al-Araji told Al-Sharqiya television network.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/0429/New-twist-in-Iraq-election-crisis-Maliki-s-enemies-latch-onto-torture-allegations" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Iraq: Allawi’s List Threatens Civil Disobedience Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English)</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote>Salih al-Mutlak, the leading figure in Al-Iraqiya List that is led by the former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, has threatened the withdrawal of their coalition, which won 91 seats in the next Iraqi parliament in the recent legislative elections, from "the entire peace process and to take to the streets to side with the Iraqis and lead massive demonstrations and sit-ins and to call for a general civil disobedience if the arbitrary measures against the List, its members, and its supporters were not stopped."</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=20768" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Clinton urged to protect ‘fragile’ Christian minority in Iraq</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Church leaders from various denominations have urged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to work with Iraqi authorities in protecting the persecuted Christian minority. <br/>The National Council of Churches and its partners throughout the world on Monday sent a letter to Clinton and U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates expressing concern about "the ongoing situation of violent attacks on minority groups in Iraq."</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.christiantoday.com/article/clinton.urged.to.protect.fragile.christian.minority.in.iraq/25808.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Security Coverage:</font></h3> <p> <strong>Civilian killed, 8 injured in Iraq’s violence</strong><strong>: Xinhua</strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>A civilian was killed and eight people wounded in separate bomb attacks in Baghdad and Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala on Thursday, police said. </p> <p>A roadside bomb went off in the morning near a police foot patrol in southeastern neighborhood of Mashtal in Baghdad, wounding four policemen and two civilians, </p> <p>In Diyala province, a civilian was killed and two injured in a roadside bomb explosion near their vehicle close to the town of Wajihiyah, near the provincial capital city of Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, an anonymous provincial police source told Xinhua. </p> <p>In a separate incident, Iraqi security forces captured five al- Qaida militants while they were planting three roadside bombs at the residential area of al-Gatoon in western Baquba, the source added. </p> <p>During the day, Iraqi security forces arrested 12 more suspects in separate search operations across the province, which stretches from the eastern edges of Baghdad to the Iranian border east of the country, the source added.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-04/29/c_13272507.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Source</a></strong><strong>: Xinhua</strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Car bomb near Baghdad liquor store kills 8 – Monsters and Critics</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Eight people were killed Thursday evening when a car bomb exploded near a liquor store in Baghad, Iraqi news agencies reported. </p> <p>Another 20 persons were injured by the blast, which completely destroyed two stores located right next to each other. </p> <p>The attack came in the Al-Shurta Al-Rabia district in the south- western part of the city. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1552086.php/Car-bomb-near-Baghdad-liquor-store-kills-8" class="external" target="_blank">Source</a></strong><strong>: </strong> </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>كونا : Car bomb in Baghdad kills 6, injures 18 – الدفاع والأمن – 29/04/2010</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Six people were killed in a car bomb explosion in western Baghdad on Thursday, an Iraqi policy source said. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2079639&Language=en" class="external" target="_blank">Source: KUNA</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Qaeda ‘postman’ dispatched Iraq chiefs to deaths</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>BAGHDAD – An Al Qaeda messenger unwittingly dispatched two top Islamist commanders to their deaths this month, when a US-backed force tracked him to their den and killed them, investigators told AFP on Thursday. </p> <p>Abu Omar Al Baghdadi and Abu Ayub Al Masri, who had direct links with Osama bin Laden, were killed in a shootout when a joint Iraqi-US force raided their safehouse north of Baghdad on April 18. </p> <p>Baghdadi was the political leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) while Masri, an Egyptian militant, was the insurgent group’s self-styled ‘minister of war.’ </p> <p>The pair, according to investigators, did not use cell phones or the Internet but relied on their own postman who relayed messages between them and other insurgents. <br/>Once a week the man, whose identity was not revealed, sat in a Baghdad cafe where he discreetly made contact with insurgents, delivering messages from Baghdadi and receiving others for the top Al Qaeda operative. </p> <p>Iraqi officials learned of the messenger’s existence on March 11 when security forces captured Munaf Abdul Rahim Al Rawi, the Al Qaeda chief in the Iraqi capital who was known as the ‘governor of Baghdad.’</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2010/April/middleeast_April498.xml&section=middleeast&col=" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Al-Shabaab responds to AQI killings – UPI.com</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>MOGADISHU, Somalia, April 29 (UPI) — Somali al-Qaida affiliate al-Shabaab said it carried out a suicide attack on peacekeepers in Mogadishu in retaliation for the deaths of Iraqi al-Qaida leaders. </p> <p>Al-Shabaab said it targeted the base for peacekeepers with the African Union in Mogadishu in response to the killing of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq. The two were killed last week in Tikrit during a joint raid by Iraqi and U.S. forces.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2010/04/29/Al-Shabaab-responds-to-AQI-killings/UPI-30981272553011/" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Al-Shabaab responds to AQI killings – UPI.com</strong></a><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Health Coverage:</font></h3> <p><strong>Iraqi doctors use acupuncture during drug shortage | Reuters</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iraqi doctors faced with a shortage of anaesthetic drugs in a capital city hit by years of conflict have successfully used acupuncture to treat mothers during caesarean section births.</p> <p>Reporting on Thursday on a small study of 200 cases at a Baghdad hospital, the doctors said their results suggested the ancient Chinese technique could also be a useful addition to standard medical practice in fully equipped hospitals.</p> <p>The doctors used acupuncture, where fine needles are inserted into certain points on the body, to see if they could replace or reduce the need for a drug called oxytocin which is often given to mothers just after a c-section delivery to help the womb contract and to cut the risk of bleeding. Oxytocin is a hormone that also occurs naturally in the body during labour.</p> <p>The study covered emergency caesarean section at the Red Crescent Hospital for Gynecology and Obstetrics in Baghdad between 2004 and 2006, when oxytocin stocks were low.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE63R6C120100428" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong> </p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Economic Coverage:</font></h3> <p> <strong>FT.com / Iraq – Iraq in talks to buy BAE Hawk jets</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>The Iraqi government is in talks to buy Hawk trainer jets from the UK in a deal that could be worth up to £1bn and would be a boost for BAE Systems, the defence contractor that manufactures the aircraft.</p> <p>It would be Iraq’s biggest arms purchase from Britain for more than two decades. It is understood that officials from the Iraqi Air Force will be visiting the UK next month to test the Hawk, which is used to train fast-jet pilots.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9a469906-5369-11df-bfdf-00144feab49a,dwp_uuid=17aab8bc-6e47-11da-9544-0000779e2340.html" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Kuwait: UN pays $590 mln in damages for 1990 invasion – Adnkronos Security</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>A United Nations commission has paid 590 million dollars to nine successful claimants in connection with Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait. </p> <p>The latest round of payments brings the total amount of compensation disbursed by the UN Compensation Commission to individuals, corporations, governments and international organisations to nearly 29.5 billion dollars, the UN said on Thursday. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.321531713" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Iraq’s air dream to London turns into a nightmare</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>The first commercial flight between Baghdad and London in 20 years has turned into a nightmare for Iraq after its national airline boss had his passport seized and a chartered plane was impounded. </p> <p>The transport ministry in Baghdad on Thursday confirmed that Iraqi Airways chief Kifah Hassan’s travel document was taken after papers were served by lawyers acting for Kuwait Airways, which says it is owed 1.2 billion dollars. </p> <p>The dispute dates back to now executed dictator Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, when, according to the oil-rich emirate, 10 of its planes were plundered after its airport had been seized. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/international/2010/April/international_April1524.xml&section=international&col=" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Commentary and Analysis</font></h3> <p><strong>Muqtada unleashes new, improved army : By Sami Moubayed : Asia Times Online</strong>: </p> <blockquote><p>All the ingredients that led to the creation of Hezbollah in Lebanon in 1982 exist in Iraq today. There are Shi’ites, plenty of arms available for everyone, political and security chaos, a weak central government and occupation to justify the carrying of arms.</p> <p>Muqtada has been working hard for two years to transform the Mahdi Army into another Hezbollah, personally inspired by Hassan Nasrallah. That is why he froze all activities of the Mahdi Army, so he can take a long hard look at membership and filter out the undisciplined, the reckless and the corrupt (of which there were plenty in 2003-2007).</p> <p>That is why he went back to the seminary, so he could elevate his academic credentials and rise from the rank of sayyed to that of an ayatollah (which enables him to issue fatwas) and grants him greater authority within the Shi’ite community at large. And that explains why, against all odds, he has insisted on refraining from any sectarian rhetoric, copying the Nasrallah model in Lebanon, who always speaks of Lebanon, not of Shi’ites.</p> <p>Muqtada also copied Hezbollah’s massive charity network, monopolizing education, hospitals and fund-raising within the Shi’ite districts of Iraq to make sure that no family goes to bed hungry and all receive a monthly stipend from the Mahdi Army. Much like a modern Robin Hood, Muqtada is suiting himself to become spokesmen, defender and leader for the poor of Iraq.</p> <p>Now is the time to unveil the new Mahdi Army. It will look, sound and act like Hezbollah. No more street violence or sectarian tension triggered by the Sadrists. On the contrary, the Mahdi Army – this time with strong Iranian support – will replace the failed state of Maliki. It will extend an arm to the Sunnis and Kurds willing to work with it, making sure that no prime minister is brought to power, without full consent of Muqtada.</p> </blockquote> <blockquote><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LD30Ak02.html" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong></p></blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9870"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/18/18-04-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/#respond" title="Comment on 18-04-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 18th, 2010 by Khalil Ibn Hussein</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/18/18-04-2010-selected-english-language-coverage/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to 18-04-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">18-04-2010 Selected English Language Coverage</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/afghanistan/" rel="tag">Afghanistan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-iraqiya/" rel="tag">Al-Iraqiya</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/allawi-vs-maliki/" rel="tag">Allawi vs. Maliki</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/american-war-criminals-gw-bush/" rel="tag">American War Criminals (G.W. 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Sheikh Salah al-Ubaydi, spokesman for the Al-Sadr Trend, said that "the trend continues to ask all the winning parties to sit on a roundtable to reach a solution to the crisis of forming the next government." </p> <p>On whether the expected alliance between the State of Law Coalition, led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, and the Iraqi National Alliance would lead to the exclusion of the Al-Iraqiya Bloc, led by Iyad Allawi, from the next government, Al-Ubaydi told Asharq Al-Awsat that any alliance between the two coalitions "does not mean abandoning the roundtable for forming the government and choosing the candidate for the post of the next prime minister," adding: "We have sent reassurance messages to all parties, which say that any alliance of this kind does not mean excluding or marginalizing others." He emphasized that "one of the most important points which we emphasized is to avoid and not to repeat the mistakes of the previous experience, particularly since the concern of the Iraqi street focuses on the need for stabilizing the security situation and also improving the living condition. Therefore, the negative phenomena that prevented the implementation of these positive points should be overcome, in addition to our demand that there should be no partisan appeasement , particularly concerning the issue of financial and administrative corruption even if the accused is a leader or affiliated to this of that party." He emphasized: "We want a real partnership government and not a government that is concerned with the interests of one party as happened in the past." </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=20626" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Iraq remains a long way off from forming a new government – The Globe and Mail: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>He may have “won” last month’s Iraqi election, but there is little chance that Iyad Allawi will head the next Iraqi government. <br/>Six weeks after Iraqis braved threats of violence to cast ballots, giving Mr. Allawi’s Iraqiya party two more seats than Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the country is still a long way from having a new government. <br/>Unfortunately for Mr. Allawi, the demographics of the country and the role of outside parties have conspired against him. The best the one-time provisional prime minister can hope for, say observers in Baghdad, is a relatively minor role in cabinet for some of his people. <br/>It’s not for want of trying. “[Mr.] Allawi has done everything he could,” said one veteran analyst with an international organization in Baghdad. “But he had to play the hand he was dealt.”</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/iraq-remains-a-long-way-off-from-forming-a-new-government/article1538381/" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Security Coverage:</font></h3> <p><strong>Violence highlights fears of Iraqi security forces taking over after U.S. leaves </strong></p> <blockquote><p>By Leila Fadel Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, April 18, 2010; A12 </p> <p>RADWANIYAH, IRAQ — Raw welts and purple bruises run down the backs of dozens of Sunni Muslim men in a small village west of Baghdad — evidence, local residents say, of abuse by the Iraqi army that threatens to widen a sectarian rift. </p> <p>The wounds came from beatings administered last month by soldiers from the predominantly Shiite force charged with protecting the Sunni community here, villagers said. One by one, they said, the Sunni men were questioned, beaten and shocked with electricity in a roundup by mostly Shiite Iraqi soldiers, who were reeling from the killing of five comrades at a checkpoint. </p> <p>The violence comes at a time when the performance and professionalism of Iraq’s security forces are facing a crucial test. With U.S. troop levels scheduled to drop to 50,000 by summer’s end, Iraqi security forces control the streets. But they face deep mistrust in particular from Iraqi Sunnis, who in some areas consider the Army a less-than-neutral instrument of a Shiite-dominated government. </p> <p>In Radwaniyah, Sunni tribal leaders say the beatings have cemented fears about what might happen when the U.S. military leaves for good. They worry about being caught between the Sunni insurgents they turned against and a Shiite-led government they do not trust. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/17/AR2010041702704_pf.html" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <div style="border-right: silver 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: silver 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: silver 1px solid; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: silver 1px solid"> <table cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" width="580" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="285"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63G06Z.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Reuters AlertNet – FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 17</a>: </p> <ul> <li><strong>*</strong>BAGHDAD – A bomb attached to a car exploded, severely wounding five people in the Saydiya district in southern Baghdad, police said. </li> <li><strong>*</strong>MOSUL – Police found the body of man who had been shot in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. </li> <li>BAGHDAD – Iraqi police killed a gunman who opened fire on a police checkpoint in the Amiriya district in western Baghdad, Baghdad security command said in a statement. </li> <li>BASRA – A bomb planted in the house of a leader of the local government-backed council leader exploded in central Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad on Friday night, killing his wife and wounding his son, police said. </li> </ul> </td> <td valign="top" width="285"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63H0O9.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Reuters AlertNet – FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 18</a>: </p> <ul> <li>Following are security developments in Iraq at 1900 GMT on Sunday. </li> <li>MOSUL – Armed men wounded two retired senior army officers after they left a mosque in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. </li> <li>MOSUL – A roadside bomb exploded in the centre of Mosul, wounding seven civilians, police said. </li> </ul> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" colspan="2"> <p><strong>*</strong> Denotes new or updated item.</p> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63H0D4.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Reuters AlertNet – One US soldier dead, three injured in Iraq crash</a>:<br/> <blockquote>A U.S. soldier was killed and three were injured when their helicopter crashed in northern Iraq late on Saturday evening, the U.S. military said on Sunday. <p>In a brief statement, the military said the incident had not been attributed to enemy fire and was under investigation.</p> </blockquote> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <p><strong>KUNA : U.S. on target to reduce forces in Iraq to 50,000 by August — Odierno – Military and Security – 18/04/2010: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The U.S. military remains on target to reduce its forces in Iraq from about 95,000 today to around 50,000 by mid-August, U.S. Army General Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, said on Sunday. <p>In an interview on "FOX News Sunday," Odierno said there was no move under way by the United States to revisit the Security of Forces Agreement with Iraq, which calls for all remaining U.S. forces to be out of that country by the end of 2011. </p> <p>If the Iraqi government wants U.S. forces in Iraq longer than that, "we can discuss it. … then we (U.S. officials) will make our own decision on that based on our policies," Odierno said.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2076685&Language=en" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Economic Coverage:</font></h3> <p><strong>Trade Arabia – Iraq cbank cuts rates to boost lending: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iraq’s central bank slashed its base rate by 100 basis points to six per cent as of April 1 in reaction to subdued inflation and to boost bank lending, senior advisers at the bank said. </p> <p><em>[snip]</em></p> <p>The IMF forecasts economic growth of 7.3 per cent this year, accelerating from estimated 4.2 per cent growth last year but well off 9.5 per cent growth in 2008 when oil prices were at record highs.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.tradearabia.com/news/newsdetails.asp?Sn=BANK&artid=177888" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Etihad to Commence Services to Iraq: </strong><br/> <blockquote>Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has announced it will commence flights from Abu Dhabi to Baghdad on April 26, subject to government and regulatory approvals, becoming the first airline in the UAE to fly to Iraq. <p>Etihad will operate five return services per week to Baghdad, operated by two-class Airbus A320 aircraft, and will expand its operation with two additional A320 return services to a second Iraq destination – Erbil – from June 1, subject to government and regulatory approvals. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2010/April/theuae_April450.xml&section=theuae&col=" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Anham replaces Agility as US military supplier – Emirates Business 24|7: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Dubai-based Anham has won a $2.2 billion (Dh8.08bn) contract to provide food and support services to the US military in Kuwait, Iraq and Jordan after Kuwait-based logistics firm Agility was replaced as the main supplier following indictments for overcharging</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.business24-7.ae/companies-markets/logistics/anham-replaces-agility-as-us-military-supplier-2010-04-18-1.109319" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Argus Media :Analysis – Baghdad plans refinery spree: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Iraq is drawing up plans to expand its effective refining capacity by 150pc to 1.2mn b/d at a cost of $10.5bn.</p> <p>The additional 740,000 b/d of capacity will come from four planned refineries (see table). A fifth planned refinery with a capacity of 100,000 b/d close to the 800mn bl East Baghdad heavy oil field is on the back burner because the field was not awarded to a foreign oil company in Iraq’s second bidding round in December.</p> <p>Cash-strapped Iraq will be unable to fund its planned downstream expansion alone and will seek private-sector investors. “We are open to discussing any type of investment. These can be joint ventures, build-operate-transfer agreements, build-own-operate agreements, or engineering contracts with deferred payment,” Iraq’s deputy oil minister for refining and gas processing Ahmad al-Shamma told Argus.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.argusmedia.com/pages/NewsBody.aspx?id=704433&menu=yes" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>: </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>The Peninsula On-line: Turkey’s TPAO plans to bid for Iraq fields: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>The state-run Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) is planning to bid for development of Iraq’s Akkas, Mansuriyah and Siba natural gas fields, TPAO Chief Executive Mehmet Uysal said in an interview yesterday.</p> <p>Uysal said TPAO aims to bid for the Akkas field in partnership with Italy’s Edison, and added that Chevron and Chinese firms are interested in gas and oil exploration in the Black Sea.</p> <p>“We have already started preparations seriously for oil exploration license tenders for which there will be invitations from now on. We can bid in partnership with consortia,” Uysal said.</p> <p>TPIC, the foreign exploration unit of state-run Turkish Petroleum, won a $318m contract to drill 45 wells in Iraq’s supergiant Rumaila oilfield in March. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=Business_News&subsection=market+news&month=April2010&file=Business_News2010041704135.xml" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a> </p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Commentary and Analysis</font></h3> <p><strong>Green Scare: The Making of the New Muslim Enemy | by Deepa Kumar | CommonDreams.org: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The events of September 11 laid the basis for the emergence of a vicious form of Islamophobia that facilitated the U.S. goals of empire building in the 21st century. This form of Islamophobia focused on the enemy "out there" against which the U.S. supposedly had to go to war to protect itself, from Afghanistan to Iraq. </p> <p>As George Bush famously put it, "We’re fighting them there, so we don’t have to fight them here." Or as he stated in his West Point speech in 2002, "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats." In short, an endless "war on terror" on the enemy beyond U.S. borders was now justified, according to Bush. </p> <p><em>[snip]</em></p> <p>The most virulent expression of this "Green Scare" was articulated by NYU professor Tunku Varadarajan. In a Forbes.com article titled "Going Muslim" (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/08/fort-hood-nidal-malik-hasan-muslims-opinions-columnists-tunku-varadarajan.html)" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/08/fort-hood-nidal-malik-hasan-muslims-opinions-columnists-tunku-varadarajan.html)</a> published in November 2009, Varadarajan argued that what precipitated the tragedy at Food Hood–when Major Nidal Hasan turned a gun against his co-workers and killed 13–was not the racist harassment that Hasan faced in the Army or the emotionally debilitating nature of being an overworked Army psychiatrist, but rather a condition that he sees as inherent to all Muslims: the tendency towards violence. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/04/17-6" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>:</p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9723"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/11/%d8%a7%d8%a6%d8%aa%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%81-%d8%af%d9%88%d9%84%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%82%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%88%d9%86-%d9%8a%d8%b7%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8-%d8%a8%d8%a5%d8%b9%d8%a7%d8%af%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%af/#respond" title="Comment on ائتلاف دولة القانون يطالب بإعادة العد والفرز والمفوضية لا مبرر للتشكيك بالانتخابات">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 11th, 2010 by Diya al din</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/11/%d8%a7%d8%a6%d8%aa%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%81-%d8%af%d9%88%d9%84%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%82%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%88%d9%86-%d9%8a%d8%b7%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8-%d8%a8%d8%a5%d8%b9%d8%a7%d8%af%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%af/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to ائتلاف دولة القانون يطالب بإعادة العد والفرز والمفوضية لا مبرر للتشكيك بالانتخابات">ائتلاف دولة القانون يطالب بإعادة العد والفرز والمفوضية لا مبرر للتشكيك بالانتخابات</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/election-results/" rel="tag">election results</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/hajem-al-hosny/" rel="tag">Hajem al-Hosny</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/march-7th-2010-election-results/" rel="tag">March 7th 2010 Election results</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/march-7th-2010-election-results-challenges-to/" rel="tag">March 7th 2010 Election results - challenges to</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/politics-and-security/" rel="tag">Politics and Security</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/state-of-law-coalition/" rel="tag">State of Law Coalition</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/state-of-law-coalition-vs-iraqiya-list/" rel="tag">State of Law Coalition vs. Iraqiya list</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p dir="rtl" align="right">قال الناطق الرسمي باسم ائتلاف دولة القانون حاجم الحسني اليوم الأحد ان الائتلاف طالب بإعادة العد والفرز اليدوي في خمس محافظات أو على الأقل في بغداد. <br/>واعرب الحسني عن اعتقاده في ان حجم التلاعب في الأصوات يصل في هذه المحافظات الخمسة إلى ما يقرب من750 ألف صوت. <br/>وأوضح الحسني في مؤتمر صحفي عقده اليوم في بغداد "هذا العدد كبير جدا وبإمكانه ان يغير نتائج الانتخابات بشكل كبير، لهذا قدمنا في هذا الطعن ونأمل ان تقوم الهيئة التمييزية القضائية بواجبها في هذه الطعون لانها من حقوق المواطنين". <br/>وذكر الحسني "قدمنا طعنا يتضمن جملة من الأدلة القوية التي سنعرضها اليوم وطلبنا إرفاق ملف الشكاوى التي تقدم بها المواطنون وقرارات قاضي التحقيق جزءا لا يتجزء من طعننا لنؤكد جدية هذا الطعن من اجل قبول طعننا وقبول العد والفرز اليدوي". <br/>وفي رده على المؤتمر الذي عقده ائتلاف دولة القانون عبر رئيس مجلس المفوضية العليا المستقلة للانتخابات فرج الحيدري اليوم الأحد عن امتعاضه لعقد بعض السياسيين مؤتمرات صحفية للتشكيك بنتائج الانتخابات، مبينا أن هذا الأمر لا ينفع العملية الديمقراطية في العراق. <br/>وقال الحيدري إن تسييس الإعتراضات على نتائج الانتخابات في مؤتمر صحفي لا يوجد ما يبرره، خاصة إذا كانت هناك طرق قانونية للنظر في الطعون والوثائق المقدمة. <br/>وأوضح أن مثل هكذا مؤتمر لا أرى فيه أي نقطة إيجابية وهو لا ينفع العملية الديمقراطية ولا يخدم الجميع بمن فيهم أولئك الذين أقاموه. <br/>وأضاف الحيدري أن المفوضية تستطيع أن تواجه أي كيان سياسي يتهمها وتقيم مؤتمرا صحفيا تتحدث فيه عن كل شئ، لكن الوضع العراقي لا يسمح بذلك، مشيرا إلى أن كل الكيانات السياسية قدمت طعونها بالطريقة القانونية وتنتظر أمر القضاء. ولا أعرف ماذا يريد ائتلاف دولة القانون من المؤتمر الذي أقامه.</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9722"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/11/al-malikis-coalition-urges-vote-recount-after-proof-of-fraud/#respond" title="Comment on Al-Maliki’s coalition urges vote recount after "proof of fraud"">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 11th, 2010 by Diya al din</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/11/al-malikis-coalition-urges-vote-recount-after-proof-of-fraud/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Al-Maliki’s coalition urges vote recount after "proof of fraud"">Al-Maliki’s coalition urges vote recount after "proof of fraud"</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/election-results/" rel="tag">election results</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/hajem-al-hosny/" rel="tag">Hajem al-Hosny</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/march-7th-2010-election-results/" rel="tag">March 7th 2010 Election results</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/march-7th-2010-election-results-challenges-to/" rel="tag">March 7th 2010 Election results - challenges to</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/politics-and-security/" rel="tag">Politics and Security</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/state-of-law-coalition/" rel="tag">State of Law Coalition</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/state-of-law-coalition-vs-iraqiya-list/" rel="tag">State of Law Coalition vs. Iraqiya list</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p> </p> <blockquote><p>Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s State of Law coalition called Sunday for a recount of the March election votes in five cities, including Baghdad, saying there is proof of fraud. </p> <p>‘We have conclusive evidence that there were fraud cases in the results in five cities, which led the coalition to lose 750,000 votes,’ coalition spokesman Hajem al-Hosny told reporters. </p> <p>‘We are calling for a recount, and we are still waiting for the court ruling concerning the appeals we filed,’ al-Hosny added. </p> <p>Al-Maliki’s coalition has asked a court to order a manual recount of ballots cast in the March 7 parliamentary election, results of which showed it narrowly losing the vote. </p> <p>Results showed former prime minister Ayad Allawi’s Iraqiya List winning 91 seats in the 325-member parliament, followed by al- Maliki’s coalition with 89 seats. The National Iraqi Alliance followed with 70 seats. </p> <p>Intense political jockeying has followed the results, as both al- Maliki and Allawi claim the right to form the new government. </p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1547270.php/Al-Maliki-s-coalition-urges-vote-recount-after-proof-of-fraud" target="_blank" class="external">Al-Maliki’s coalition urges vote recount after "proof of fraud"</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9495"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/01/%d8%ac%d8%b9%d9%81%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1-%d9%8a%d8%a8%d8%ad%d8%ab-%d9%85%d8%b9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%83%d9%8a-%d9%88%d8%b9%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%8a-%d9%86%d8%aa%d8%a7%d8%a6/#respond" title="Comment on جعفر الصدر يبحث مع المالكي وعلاوي نتائج الانتخابات النيابية">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 1st, 2010 by Mohammed Al-Hamadani</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/01/%d8%ac%d8%b9%d9%81%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1-%d9%8a%d8%a8%d8%ad%d8%ab-%d9%85%d8%b9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%83%d9%8a-%d9%88%d8%b9%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%8a-%d9%86%d8%aa%d8%a7%d8%a6/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to جعفر الصدر يبحث مع المالكي وعلاوي نتائج الانتخابات النيابية">جعفر الصدر يبحث مع المالكي وعلاوي نتائج الانتخابات النيابية</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/allawijafar_al-sadr_maliki/" rel="tag">Allawi/Jafar_al-Sadr_maliki</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraqiya-list-negotiations-with-state-of-law/" rel="tag">Iraqiya list negotiations with State of Law</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iyad-allawi/" rel="tag">Iyad Allawi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/jafar-mohammed-baqir-al-sadr/" rel="tag">Jafar Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/maliki-nouri-al/" rel="tag">Maliki - Nouri al-</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/march-7th-2010-election-aftermath/" rel="tag">March 7th 2010 Election aftermath</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/political-coalitions-negotiations/" rel="tag">Political Coalitions - negotiations</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/state-of-law-coalition/" rel="tag">State of Law Coalition</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/state-of-law-coalition-vs-iraqiya-list/" rel="tag">State of Law Coalition vs. Iraqiya list</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p dir="rtl" align="right"><a title="allawi-jafrsadr-maliki" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4482206528/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; margin: 5px 15px 5px 0px" alt="allawi-jafrsadr-maliki" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828im_/http://static.flickr.com/4041/4482206528_29bffb6dca.jpg" align="left" border="0"/></a>بحث المرشح الفائز عن ائتلاف دولة القانون جعفر محمد باقر الصدر مع زعيم الائتلاف رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي وزعيم كتلة العراقية أياد علاوي تطورات الاوضاع السياسية في البلاد. <br/>وجرى خلال اللقائين تبادل وجهات النظر حول مختلف الأوضاع الراهنة وفي مقدمتها سير العملية السياسية ونتائج الانتخابات البرلمانية الأخيرة والحوارات الجارية بين الكتل السياسية للوصول الى تشكيل حكومة شراكة وطنية. <br/>الصدر أكد عقب لقائه علاوي والمالكي كلاً على حده، ضرورة التواصل والحوار بين مكونات الطيف السياسي العراقي بما يؤمن النهج الحواري المرتكز على قاعدة توحيد الرؤى والجهود خدمة لجميع أبناء الشعب.</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9388"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/03/28/patrick-cockburn-iraq-violent-divided-but-hopeful/#respond" title="Comment on Patrick Cockburn: Iraq – violent, divided, but hopeful">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 28th, 2010 by Abdus-Samad</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/03/28/patrick-cockburn-iraq-violent-divided-but-hopeful/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Patrick Cockburn: Iraq – violent, divided, but hopeful">Patrick Cockburn: Iraq – violent, divided, but hopeful</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/category/analysis-briefings-commentary/" title="View all posts in Analysis Briefings Commentary" rel="category tag">Analysis Briefings Commentary</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/disputed-areas/" rel="tag">"disputed" areas</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-iraqiya/" rel="tag">Al-Iraqiya</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120516044828/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/alcohol-ban-on/" rel="tag">alcohol - 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His al-Iraqiya coalition won 91 seats in the 325-seat parliament, against 89 seats for the prime minister Nouri al-Maliki’s State of Law bloc. </p> <p>As interim prime minister in 2004-2005 Mr Allawi ran an administration chiefly notable for its incompetence and corruption, so his political rebirth is astonishing. It has happened because, whatever his failings then, the bloodbath that followed his rule was even worse, particularly for the Sunni community which had been ousted from power with the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. </p> <p>This is Mr Allawi’s strength, and his weakness. His success was the result of a massive turn-out of Sunni voters, enabling him to sweep away the opposition in the Sunni-majority provinces north and west of Baghdad. He also did well in the capital, now very much Shia dominated, which means that many Shia were attracted by his nationalist and non-sectarian platform. </p> <p>But the political landscape of Iraq remains determined by sectarian and ethnic differences between Shia and Sunni Arabs and the Kurds. The strength of Mr Allawi is the backing of the Sunni, but they make up only 15 to 20 per cent of the population while at least 60 per cent are Shia and a further 15 to 20 per cent are Kurdish. For many Shia and Kurds the resurgence of the Sunni is threatening, and they will try to limit it by preventing Mr Allawi forming a government with the top jobs going to his Sunni allies. </p> <p>Surprising as Mr Allawi’s triumph may be, it is also something of a mirage because the Shia vote was split between Mr Maliki’s State of Law and the Iraqi National Alliance (INA) which won 70 seats. The INA is made up of two Shia religious parties, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq and the followers of the nationalist cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The revival of the latter, who represent the Shia poor, has been the second upset of the election. </p> <p>The two big Shia blocs – State of Law and the INA – are now in talks about a merger which would give them almost half the seats in parliament. A new government would only need the addition of the 43 seats of the main Kurdish party to give them a majority. The Kurds and the INA will probably ask for a new prime minister, replacing Mr Maliki with whom both have quarrelled. The Kurds would have difficulty doing a deal with Mr Allawi because over a third of his seats are in provinces disputed between Sunni Arab and Kurd. </p> <p>Iraqi politics are highly complex because there are so many players at home and abroad, none of whom trust each other. One of the reasons why negotiations to form a new government will be so long is that each side will try to lure members of opposing coalitions into their own camp by offering jobs in the government. </p> <p>But the election does mark an important moment of transition in Iraq post Saddam Hussein, in which a new set of winners and losers is emerging. The good news is that the Sunni community which boycotted the last parliamentary election in 2005 have taken part in the poll, and, so long as they are not marginalised in the formation of a new government, have no reason to take up arms again. The same is true of the Sadrists, who won some 40 seats in parliament, and whose Mehdi Army militia fought the Americans in 2004 and were in the forefront of the Shia-Sunni civil war in 2006-7. </p> <p>The election marks other important trends in Iraq. There is an anti-incumbency mood, understandable given the corruption and dysfunctional nature of the government. Poverty is overwhelming. No sooner was the election over than people from the slums and shanty towns of Baghdad rushed out to remove the hoardings carrying political advertisements to sell or use as roofs and walls in their own houses. </p> <p>Mr Maliki ought to have done better because he controls the state machinery, with its $60bn a year in oil revenues and several million jobs. This power of patronage was not as effective as it should have been because so much of the Iraqi government is parasitic, no service being performed unless accompanied by a bribe.</p> <p>Iraqis remain highly conscious of which community they belong to, though the mood is more secular and nationalist. But this growth of secularism can be exaggerated and the local authorities are closing down the remaining Christian-owned liquor stores in Shia cities such as Basra. In the final days of the campaign the Shia parties had no inhibitions about portraying Mr Allawi as a Sunni puppet. On the other hand, the vote in Baghdad, where al-Iraqiya won 24 seats and State of Law 26, shows that appeals to sectarian loyalties do not resonate as much as they once did. </p> <p>What happens next in Iraq will not be decided entirely within the country. Mr Allawi’s campaign was heavily financed by Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Arab states. This money will continue to provide the glue holding his disparate coalition together. The Iranians will similarly support the Shia parties coming together to form the core of a new government, though without Mr Maliki. As the American forces continue to withdraw on schedule, Iraq will remain violent and divided. 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