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title="20101009_deutsche_welle_soldier_protecting_christian_church_caption_top_and_bottom by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/5065378540/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; margin: 10px 0px 5px" height="359" alt="20101009_deutsche_welle_soldier_protecting_christian_church_caption_top_and_bottom" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651im_/http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4151/5065378540_0f27f45bce_o.jpg" width="300" align="right"/></a> <p>Their churches are burnt-out husks and heaps of rubble. Their businesses are targeted by extremists. Their leaders are kidnapped and assassinated. The Christian minority in Iraq, once a community left in peace to prosper, continues to be under threat from a campaign of persecution which has forced as many as 500,000 Christians to flee the country.</p> <p>During the reign of Saddam Hussein, the estimated 1.4 million Christians – many of them Chaldean-Assyrians and Armenians, with small numbers of Roman Catholics – were generally left alone if they didn’t oppose the government and they lived in relative peace with the country’s Sunnis and Shiites. </p> <p>Some, such as Tariq Aziz, Saddam’s foreign minister and deputy prime minister, rose to the highest levels of power.</p> <p>Things changed after the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq toppled Saddam’s regime. Christians became a target of violence when Islamist groups and ordinary Muslims angered by the military action began seeing them as the enemy, associating with them with the "crusaders" – the invading armies of the United States and Britain.</p> <p>Tensions over their religious ties with the West and their differing beliefs to the strict Islamic majority, which had been simmering for years, spilled over as the occupying forces dug in.</p> <p>"Iraqi Christians became caught up in the overlapping violence and multiple conflicts unleashed after 2003," Dr. Kristian Ulrichsen, an Iraq expert at the London School of Economics and Political Science, told Deutsche Welle. "They became exposed to the similar patterns of kidnappings, extortion, beheadings, rape and forced taxation that affected all other communities as the erosion of central government control left a security vacuum that was exploited by organised and opportunistic criminality and anti-occupation resistance groups." </p> <p>"In addition to this, Christians specifically were targeted by Church bombings and assassination attempts owing to a perceived association with the aims and intentions of the occupying forces."</p> <h3>Association with occupying powers makes Christians targets</h3> <p>In 2004, insurgents launched a coordinated bombing campaign targeted churches in Baghdad. In 2007, after Pope Benedict XVI made comments perceived to be anti-Islam, nationwide attacks on churches hit an all-time high and a priest in the northern city of Mosul was kidnapped and later found beheaded. In January 2009, 40 Iraqi Christians were killed and approximately 12,000 fled their homes.</p> <p>In February this year, at least 10 Iraqi Christians were killed by unknown gunmen in Mosul as the country was preparing for the March 7 elections. The escalating violence ahead of the ballot led to hundreds of Iraqi Christians taking to the streets in a number of protests, chanting slogans such as "Stop the killing of Christians."</p> <p>During the years since the invasion, life for the Christian minority has become beset by danger. The waves of violent attacks against churches, businesses and homes have forced more than half of the Christian population to flee for their lives, according to statistcs from the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). Those churches which remain standing are mostly empty, their congregations long gone or too afraid to attend.</p> <p>"The Christian minority in Iraq has been reduced to a shadow of its former self," said Ulrichsen. "Up to two-thirds of the pre-war community has been displaced or forced to flee the country. Although conditions in Iraq have improved somewhat since 2007, the security situation remains intensely fragile and prone to reversal, and the return of refugees and displaced persons to their homes has been very slow and halting."</p> <p>"There’s a real possibility that 2,000 years of settlement by Christian communities in Iraq is in danger of near-total extinction." </p> <h3>US withdrawal leave Christians’ fate in Iraqi hands</h3> <p>As the United States steps up its military withdrawal from Iraq, the Christian minority is forced to look at the Iraqi security structure for protection. However, the prospect of being protecetd by the Iraqi police and armed forces fails to instill any confidence in the Christian minority.</p> <p>"The greatest concern about a US pullout is that extremists will exploit any lapses in security and attack vulnerable groups, including Christians," Samer Muscati, an Iraq expert from the Middle East division at Human Rights Watch, told Deutsche Welle. </p> <p>"Although the Iraqi government publicly condemns violence against Christians and other minority groups, it has not taken measures to bolster security in areas where minorities are particularly vulnerable to attacks, and it has not thoroughly investigated attacks," he added. "Iraqi security forces rarely apprehend, prosecute and punish perpetrators of such attacks, which has created a climate of impunity."</p> <h3>Christians search for ways to protect themselves </h3> <p>One muted proposal to protect the Christian minority involves the creation of an autonomous province on a neglected area of land located to the north and west of Mosul, called Ninawah Plain, which would act as a sanctuary.</p> <p>While advocates of the idea say it wouldn’t stop the violence against Christians in the large, high-risk cities of Mosul, Baghdad, and Al-Basrah, it would give the Christians a place where their needs could be met, their beliefs supported and their security guaranteed.</p> <p>The proposals suggest that Ninaweh Plain would an autonomous administrative region in which the Christian minority could govern themselves and would be free to participate in the federalist system which is developing in Iraq.</p> <h3>Creation of autonomous region plagued by problems </h3> <p>However, the idea of an autonomous region for the Christian minority in reality looks unviable. </p> <p>"The image of a real autonomy is unrealistic," Nizar Hanna, director of the Assyrian Democratic Movement’s Baghdad office, told Deutsche Welle. "Up to now, there are no concrete plans which show how this would work. Even in the Kurdish constitution, they have the right to autonomy in the areas where they are the majority but nowhere is this the case. Besides, there are no areas in which only Christians live. Shabak, Yazidis, Kurds and Arabs also live there." </p> <p>"To an extent a safe haven for Christians exists in Iraqi Kurdistan," Kristian Ulrichsen said. "Thousands of internally displaced Iraqi Christians have moved there. 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المنتمين منهم إلى أقليات، على العودة إلى بلادهم وذلك بسبب انعدام الأمن فيها. <br/>وقد جاءت هذه المناشدة رداً على الخطط التي أعلنتها المملكة المتحدة والسويد وهولندا والنرويج مؤخراً لإعادة اللاجئين العراقيين إلى بلدهم. وقد بدأت المملكة المتحدة بالفعل بترحيل بعض العراقيين وهو ما يشرح عودة حوالي 40 طالب لجوء إلى بغداد في 17 يونيو ضمن ثالث عملية ترحيل تقوم بها المملكة المتحدة هذا الأسبوع. <br/>وفي هذا السياق، قالت ميليسا فليمينغ، المتحدثة باسم المفوضية السامية للأمم المتحدة لشؤون اللاجئين، خلال <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://www.unhcr.org/4c0e33e94fc.html" class="external" target="_blank">مؤتمر صحفي </a>عقد يوم 8 يونيو: "إن موقفنا والنصيحة التي نقدمها للحكومات تتمثل في ضرورة استمرار استفادة طالبي اللجوء العراقيين القادمين من محافظات بغداد وديالى ونينوى وصلاح الدين وكركوك من الحماية الدولية. يعكس موقفنا الأوضاع الأمنية غير المستقرة واستمرار ارتفاع مستوى العنف بالبلاد والحوادث الأمنية وانتهاكات حقوق الإنسان التي تجري في هذه المناطق من العراق". <br/>وفي الوقت الذي تم فيه توجيه انتقادات كبيرة للحكومة البريطانية بسبب سرية عمليات ترحيلها، تصر هذه الأخيرة على أن أولئك الذي رحلتهم ينتمون لمناطق أكثر أمناً في العراق. وأعربت المفوضية عن قلقها من أن العودة القسرية تبعث برسالة خاطئة إلى البلدان المضيفة المجاورة للعراق، خصوصاً سوريا والأردن. </p> <h3>الهجمات على الأقليات </h3> <p>وتخشى الأقليات العراقية، بما فيها المسيحيون من مختلف الطوائف واليزيديون والشبك، الذين يعيشون في بلدان ثالثة من تعرضهم للعودة القسرية. وأخبر لاجئ عراقي مسيحي كلداني، طلب عدم الكشف عن اسمه، يعيش في هولندا منذ عام 2006 شبكة الأنباء الإنسانية (إيرين) أنه يخشى أن العودة بسبب الهجمات العديدة التي تستهدف طائفته في العراق. وأشار إلى أن "عمليات الخطف والقتل لدوافع سياسية لا تزال تحدث فيما يبدو أنه محاولة لإخراج سكان العراق الأصليين من البلاد أو القضاء عليهم". <br/>وهذا اللاجئ هو واحد من أكثر من نصف مليون مسيحي عراقي فروا من البلاد منذ الغزو الذي قادته الولايات المتحدة على العراق عام 2003. ووفقاً لمعهد بروكينغز في الولايات المتحدة، يوجد الآن حوالي 500,000 مسيحي في العراق مقارنة بما بين مليون و 1.4 مليون قبل عام 2003. وعلق على ذلك الدكتور غازي رحو، وهو عراقي مسيحي فر من البلاد منذ عدة سنوات ويعمل حالياً كأستاذ في الأردن، قائلاً: "يستمر المسيحيون في التعرض للاستهداف دون وجود أية حماية من السلطات العراقية". <br/>وكان ابن عم رحو، رئيس الأساقفة بولص فرج رحو، وهو مسيحي بارز في العراق، قد تعرض للقتل في فبراير 2008 في حادث أدى إلى فرار 12,000 مسيحي من محافظة الموصل التي تقع على بعد حوالي 400 كلم شمال غرب بغداد. وأشار رحو إلى أنه "حتى هذا التاريخ لا تزال عمليات الخطف والاغتيالات تحدث، ويتم استخدام تكتيكات أخرى لترهيب المسيحيين كقصف الكنائس مثلاً". <br/>ووفقاً <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report/iraq-must-protect-civilians-risk-deadly-violence-2010-04-27" class="external" target="_blank">لتقرير</a> صادر عن منظمة العفو الدولية في أبريل 2010، لقي أكثر من 100 شخص حتفهم خلال الفترة بين منتصف شهر يوليو ومنتصف شهر سبتمبر 2009 في هجمات استهدفت المسيحيين والصابئة المندائيين واليزيديين والتركمان الشيعة والشبك وغيرهم. <br/>ودعت منظمة العفو الدولية المجتمع الدولي إلى "وضع حد لجميع عمليات الإعادة القسرية إلى أي جزء من العراق"، مشيرة إلى أنه "لا ينبغي أن تتم أية عودة لطالبي اللجوء المرفوضين إلا بعد استقرار الوضع الأمني في عموم البلاد". <br/>من جهتها، قدمت منظمة حقوق الأقليات الدولية، وهي منظمة غير حكومية بأدلة مفصلة على العنف ضد الأقليات في العراق في <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://www.minorityrights.org/10042/reports/still-targeted-continued-persecution-of-iraqs-minorities.html" class="external" target="_blank">تقرير</a> أصدرته في 10 يونيو وأعربت فيه عن الحاجة الملحة لوضع تشريعات لحقوق الأقليات في البلاد بهدف التصدي لجو "الإفلات من العقاب السائد فيما يتعلق بالهجمات على الأقليات". <br/>في غضون ذلك، أعلنت <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://www.unhcr.org/4c1b17b56.html" class="external" target="_blank">المفوضية</a> في 18 يونيو أن 100,000 عراقي أحيلوا لإعادة التوطين من الشرق الأوسط إلى بلد ثالث منذ عام 2007. ويعيش حوالي 45 بالمائة من هذا العدد في سوريا، حسب المفوضية. وأضافت المنظمة أن نسبة قبول البلدان المضيفة وصلت إلى 80 بالمائة، من بينهم 76 بالمائة قبلوا من طرف الولايات المتحدة. <br/>ويشكل العراقيون ثاني أكبر مجموعة لاجئين في العالم، وفقاً <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/search?page=search&docid=4c11f0be9&query=2009%20Global%20Trends" class="external" target="_blank">للتقرير</a> الصادر عن المفوضية تحت عنوان "الاتجاهات العالمية لعام 2009"، حيث يعيش 1.8 مليون طالب لجوء عراقي في سوريا والأردن ولبنان ومصر وتركيا. كما أفاد التقرير الصادر على هامش اليوم العالمي للاجئين في 20 يونيو أن العودة الطوعية في جميع أنحاء العالم في عام 2009 كانت الأدنى على مدى 20 عاماً، حيث لم تشمل سوى حوالي 251,500 عائد منهم 38,000 عراقي. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://arabic.irinnews.org/ReportArabic.aspx?SID=2071" class="external" target="_blank">العراق: الترحيل القسري يعرض الأقليات للخطر-العراق-حقوق إنسان-نزاع</a></p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/violence/" rel="tag">violence</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/world-refugee-day/" rel="tag">World refugee day</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/yazidi/" rel="tag">yazidi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/yazidis/" rel="tag">yazidis</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%8a%d9%8a%d9%86/" rel="tag">بالمسيحيين</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>MADRID, 20 June 2010 (IRIN) – Refugee officials and rights groups have urged a number of European countries not to forcibly repatriate Iraqi asylum seekers, particularly members of minority communities, because of prevailing insecurity in the country. </p> <p>These demands were made in response to recent announced repatriation plans by the UK, Sweden, the Netherlands and Norway. The UK has already begun deporting some Iraqis, with some 40 asylum-seekers arriving in Baghdad on 17 June – the UK’s third deportation in that week. </p> <p>“Our position and advice to governments is that Iraqi asylum applicants originating from Iraq’s governorates of Baghdad, Diyala, Ninewa and Salah-al-Din, as well as from Kirkuk province, should continue to benefit from international protection,” Melissa Fleming, a spokesperson for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), said at a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://www.unhcr.org/4c0e33e94fc.html" class="external" target="_blank">press briefing</a> on 8 June. </p> <p>“Our position reflects the volatile security situation and the still high level of prevailing violence, security incidents, and human rights violations taking place in these parts of Iraq,” she said. </p> <p>While its deportations have been criticized for being highly secretive, the British government has insisted the people it was repatriating were from safer parts of Iraq. UNHCR has expressed concern that the forced returns send the wrong message to host countries neighbouring Iraq, namely Syria and Jordan. </p> <p><strong>Minority attacks </strong></p> <p>Iraqi minorities – including Christians of various denominations, Yazidis and the Shabak – living in third countries are particularly fearful of any forced returns. </p> <p>A Chaldean Christian Iraqi refugee who has lived in the Netherlands since 2006 told IRIN on condition of anonymity that he feared being singled out for deportation because of the many attacks against his community in Iraq. </p> <p>"Kidnappings and politically motivated killings continue to take place in what seems to be an attempt to resettle or eradicate Iraq’s indigenous population," he said. </p> <p>He is one of more than half a million Iraqi Christians who have fled since the US-led invasion of the country in 2003. According to the US-based Brookings Institution, an estimated 500,000 Christians remain in Iraq since numbering between 1 million and 1.4 million before 2003. </p> <p>“Christians continue to be targeted and there is no protection from the Iraqi authorities,” said Dr Ghazi Rahho, a Christian Iraqi who fled the country several years ago and now works as a professor in Jordan. </p> <p>Rahho’s cousin, Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, a leading Christian authority in Iraq, was kidnapped and killed in February 2008, an incident that led to some 12,000 Christians fleeing Mosul, about 400km northwest of Baghdad. “To date, kidnappings and assassinations are taking place. And other tactics are used to terrorize Christians. Our churches, for instance, are being bombed," said Rahho. </p> <p>According to an April 2010 Amnesty International (AI) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report/iraq-must-protect-civilians-risk-deadly-violence-2010-04-27" class="external" target="_blank">report</a>, more than 100 people were killed between mid-July and mid-September 2009 in attacks targeting Christians, Sabean-Mandaeans, Yazidis, Turkoman Shias, Shabaks and Kaka’is. </p> <p>AI has called on the international community to “end all forcible returns to any part of Iraq; any return of rejected asylum-seekers should only take place when the security situation in the whole country has stabilized.” </p> <p>NGO Minority Rights Group International has detailed evidence of violence against Iraq’s minority communities in a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://www.minorityrights.org/10042/reports/still-targeted-continued-persecution-of-iraqs-minorities.html" class="external" target="_blank">June 10 report</a> and expressed an urgent need for legislation implementing minority rights in the country to address an “ongoing climate of impunity that exists in relation to attacks on minorities”. </p> <p><strong>Iraqi refugee landmark </strong></p> <p>Meanwhile, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://www.unhcr.org/4c1b17b56.html" class="external" target="_blank">UNHCR announced</a> on 18 June that a landmark 100,000 Iraqis had been referred for resettlement from the Middle East to third countries since 2007. About 45 percent of that number lives in Syria, UNHCR said, adding that the referrals acceptance rate by host countries was 80 percent, of which 76 percent were accepted by the US. </p> <p>Iraqis are the second largest refugee group in the world, according to UNHCR’s 2009 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/search?page=search&docid=4c11f0be9&query=2009%20Global%20Trends" class="external" target="_blank">Global Trends report</a>, with an estimated 1.8 million seeking refuge primarily in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Turkey. </p> <p>The report, released in advance of World Refugee Day on 20 June, said voluntary repatriation worldwide in 2009 was the lowest for 20 years, with around 251,500 returns, of which only 38,000 were Iraqi.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=89552" class="external" target="_blank">IRIN Middle East | IRAQ: Forced repatriation puts minorities at risk | Middle East | Iraq | Human Rights Conflict | News Item</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9382"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/03/28/asharq-al-awsats-interview-with-iyad-allawi/#respond" title="Comment on Asharq Al-Awsat’s Interview With Iyad Allawi">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 28th, 2010 by Nur Hussein Ghazali</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/03/28/asharq-al-awsats-interview-with-iyad-allawi/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Asharq Al-Awsat’s Interview With Iyad Allawi">Asharq Al-Awsat’s Interview With Iyad Allawi</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/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/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/arabs/" rel="tag">Arabs</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/asharq-al-awsat/" rel="tag">Asharq Al-Awsat</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/election-results/" rel="tag">election results</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraqiya-list/" rel="tag">Iraqiya list</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iyad-allawi/" rel="tag">Iyad Allawi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/jalal-talabani/" rel="tag">Jalal Talabani</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kurdish-bloc/" rel="tag">Kurdish Bloc</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kurdistan/" rel="tag">Kurdistan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/march-7th-2010-election-aftermath/" rel="tag">March 7th 2010 Election aftermath</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/national-iraqi-alliance/" rel="tag">National Iraqi Alliance</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sectarianism/" rel="tag">sectarianism</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/separatism/" rel="tag">Separatism</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/state-of-law-coalition/" rel="tag">State of Law Coalition</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/turkmen/" rel="tag">Turkmen</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/yazhidi/" rel="tag">Yazhidi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/yazidis/" rel="tag">yazidis</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/yezidis/" rel="tag">Yezidis</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>London, <a title="Asharq Al-Awsat" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=20383" class="external" target="_blank">Asharq Al-Awsat</a> – In this interview, Asharq Al-Awsat talks to the head of the Iraqiya National List, Iyad Allawi. It was announced on Friday evening that the Iraqiya bloc won the most seats in Iraq’s March 7 parliamentary elections. </p> <p>Q) How would you describe your relationship with the Kurds? </p> <p>A) We have deep and historical ties with our Kurdish brothers, as we have been allies, partners and companions on a long path of struggle spanning decades. Of course we might disagree in some areas but we agree on a lot more. Honestly, we consider Kurds, Arabs, Turkmen, Muslims, Sunni or Shia, Christians, Sabians and Yazidis and all other segments and elements of Iraqi society partners in this country. None of these partners or citizens is above the other. </p> <p>Q) Will you ally with the Kurdistan Alliance to form a parliamentary bloc? </p> <p>A) We are serious about the alliance with our brothers in the Kurdistan Alliance and we will not forget the important national position of the Kurds as they nurtured the Iraqi opposition from the beginning of the 1990s and opened headquarters for opposition parties and made large sacrifices in this regard as the future of the opposition in Kurdistan was subjected to many problems with the former government. </p> <p>Q) Will you support President Jalal Talabani’s nomination for a second presidential term? </p> <p>A) Of course. It seems that President Talabani is the Kurdistan Alliance’s candidate for the presidency and we respect this nomination and waiting for this nomination to be made official. In the Iraqiya List we strongly contributed to the election of our brother Jalal Talabani as he is a national Iraqi figure. In general, authoritative positions will not be subjected to political quotas whether presidencies or [other] important posts. I repeat that we are waiting for the official nomination from the Kurdistan Alliance for President Jalal Talabani’s second term and this will be part of the dialogue and discussions that will take place after the final election results and there will be a political alliance that will include all centers. </p> <p>Q) There is talk about the possibility of the National Iraqi Alliance merging with the State of Law coalition, what is your comment in this regard? </p> <p>A) Each electoral bloc is free to make its decisions and they (the National Iraqi Alliance and the Daawa Party which is headed by Nouri al Maliki, head of the State of Law coalition) were allies. In fact they formed a large parliamentary bloc and this ended for reasons relating to management. I believe that restoring this coalition today will be unsuccessful, this is my personal opinion, [but] they are free to decide themselves. </p> <p>Q) Don’t you think that such a merger or alliance between the National Iraqi Alliance and the State of Law would be based on sectarianism? </p> <p>A) If that is the case then, God forbid, the situation will go back to square one with the formation of sectarian axes. In my discussions with the brothers in the Supreme Islamic Council and the Sadrist current I didn’t feel that they were willing to ally themselves based on sectarianism. Rather, we felt they were keen to ally themselves based on nationalism because they realized that coalitions (founded on sectarianism) did not succeed and they discovered that the Shia have a large and influential national, historical role. </p> <p>Q) Has there been any talk or discussions with the State of Law coalition headed by Nouri al Maliki? </p> <p>A) We do not have any ties to the State of Law coalition and we do not know their approaches. Our conversations are limited to the Kurdistan Alliance, the Sadrists and the Supreme Islamic Council and other Iraqi national political bodies and individuals. We want to form an Iraqi national government away from any kind of sectarian and political quotas in order to implement a program to build an institutional state, a state that respects the judiciary and the law and achieves services for the Iraqis and provides [good] economic conditions, a state that relies on Iraqi capabilities and works on returning migrants to their homes and their nation. We hope that the Iraqi electorate voted for this program and God willing the Iraqi citizen will raise his head [with pride].</p> <p><strong>Source</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=20383" class="external" target="_blank">Asharq Al-Awsat Talks to Iyad Allawi</a> By Maad Fayad Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English)</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="navigation"> <div class="alignleft"></div> <div class="alignright"></div> </div> </div> <div id="sidebar" class="span-10 last"> <div class="span-10" id="tabs"> <ul> <li class="ui-tabs-nav-item"><a href="#featured-articles">Featured Articles</a></li> <li class="ui-tabs-nav-item"><a href="#latest-articles">Latest Articles</a></li> </ul> <div id="featured-articles" class="widget"> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130127033651/http://gorillasguides.com/2012/04/19/hezbollah-says-latest-bombings-in-iraq-thwart-mission-to-build-state/">Hezbollah says latest 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