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مع مجلس القضاء الأعلى والأمم المتحدة لإجراء تحقيق مع رئيس الوزراء المنتهية ولايته نوري المالكي ومناقشته في مضمون وثائق ويكيليكس، فيما جدد دعوة القائمة رئيس السن فؤاد معصوم للموافقة على عقد الجلسة استنادا إلى المادة 58 من الدستور العراقي والنظام الداخلي لمجلس النواب . </p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11071"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/06/16/major-disputes-within-the-national-alliance/#respond" title="Comment on Major Disputes within the National Alliance">No Comments</a></span> Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Nur Hussein Ghazali</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/06/16/major-disputes-within-the-national-alliance/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Major Disputes within the National Alliance">Major Disputes within the National Alliance</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-iraqiya/" rel="tag">Al-Iraqiya</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/asharq-al-awsat/" rel="tag">Asharq Al-Awsat</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/asharq-alawsat-newspaper/" rel="tag">asharq alawsat newspaper</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/constitutional-party/" rel="tag">Constitutional Party</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/interior-minister/" rel="tag">interior minister</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraqiya-list/" rel="tag">Iraqiya list</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/national-alliance/" rel="tag">National Alliance</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/state-of-law-coalition/" rel="tag">State of Law Coalition</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p> </p> <blockquote><p>The announcement of the "National Alliance" between the State of Law Coalition [SLC] led by outgoing Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the Iraqi National Alliance [INA] led by Ammar al-Hakim appears to have been a political ploy to form the largest bloc in parliament, as sources inside the alliance say that disagreements are continuing over the government program and who to name as Prime Minster.</p> <p>While the INA is demanding that the government program should be determined before announcing the two coalitions’ candidate, the SLC is insisting on its candidate Al-Maliki before negotiating the joint government program. These details were also confirmed by Muhammad al-Bayyati, a leading member of Badr Organization, one of the INA’s components, who pointed out that the problems in the negotiations have become dilemmas due to the SLC’s insistence on the name of the candidate for the prime minister’s post before reaching an understanding on the government program, which the INA is underlining. He asserted to Asharq Al-Awsat that the negotiations were ongoing but with the INA insisting on presenting and agreeing on the government program and then reaching an understanding on the candidates. </p> <p>The decision to abolish the "committee of wise men" the two coalitions had formed to determine the mechanism for choosing the prime minister is an indication of these problems. Reports say this committee’s function was delegated to the administrative committee which is now operating as subcommittees to choose the mechanism for forming the government, the candidate for prime minister, and the government program. According to Al-Bayyati, the committee of wise men or the administrative committee is not the problem, adding that the mere formation of committees necessarily means there are problems between the negotiating teams.</p> <p>On the other hand, Al-Bayyati has ruled out resorting to the smaller components to complete the numbers of the largest bloc and stressed that the door remains open to all Iraqi coalitions and blocs to form a government of real partnership which the INA had and continues to call for. </p> <p>Haydar al-Abbadi, a leading Al-Dawa Party figure, had asserted in press statements that Al-Tawafuq Front and the Unity of Iraq Coalition had joined the National Alliance but Salim al-Juburi, Al-Tawafuq’s spokesman, stressed that the next two days would probably see a new announcement from the Front that it would not take part in the next government but would be a positive opposition in the Iraqi parliament and take up the role of supervising the government’s action and rectifying the course. He asserted in statements to Asharq Al-Awsat that negotiations were continuing with all the parties but the closest options for the front were to withdraw and remain on the side of positive opposition. Al-Tawafuq Front has six seats in the new parliament. </p> <p>On his part, Ali Fulayh, a leading member of the Constitutional Party, which is one of the components of the Unity of Iraq Coalition that is led by outgoing Interior Minister Jawad al-Bulani, said the "coalition" was continuing its negotiations with all the parties in order to form a strong government capable of solving the Iraqis’ problems. He also denied in a statement to Asharq Al-Awsat that there was an official announcement about joining the National Alliance but said a decisive session would be held today or tomorrow to make a decision.</p> <p>However, Al-Iraqiya List adviser Dr. Hani Ashur has stated that the List’s negotiations with the other blocs will continue on the basis that the INA and SLC are two separate blocs whose alliance has no effect on the progress of negotiations due to their different programs and candidates for the sovereign posts and their disagreement over the important issues. He said: The two coalitions’ announcement of the idea of an alliance does not concern Al-Iraqiya List but concerns them and has no constitutional or legal basis but is an attempt to resolve the crisis between them over candidacies for the sovereign posts and their conflicting programs and to find the points of agreement between them. This does not concern Al-Iraqiya List which is adhering to its constitutional right to form the government in accordance with the constitution and the Federal Court’s ruling which gave it the first right to form the government since it is the largest bloc with the largest number of seats. He added: Solving disagreements between the blocs in any way, whether as an alliance or an understanding, is something good under the democratic dialogue, particularly as some have firm wishes to head the government. Al-Iraqiya wishes the SLC and INA can solve their differences for the sake of serving Iraq and achieving the change in faces and programs when forming the next government. </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=21320" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq: Major Disputes within the National Alliance Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English)</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10710"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/25/%d8%a7%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%af-%d8%b9%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%8a-%d9%8a%d9%86%d9%81%d9%8a-%d9%88%d8%ac%d9%88%d8%af-%d8%b5%d9%81%d9%82%d8%a9-%d9%84%d9%84%d8%aa%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%88%d8%a8-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%89-%d8%b1/#respond" title="Comment on اياد علاوي ينفي وجود صفقة للتناوب على رئاسة الحكومة مع المالكي">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 25th, 2010 by Nur Hussein Ghazali</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/25/%d8%a7%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%af-%d8%b9%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%8a-%d9%8a%d9%86%d9%81%d9%8a-%d9%88%d8%ac%d9%88%d8%af-%d8%b5%d9%81%d9%82%d8%a9-%d9%84%d9%84%d8%aa%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%88%d8%a8-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%89-%d8%b1/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to اياد علاوي ينفي وجود صفقة للتناوب على رئاسة الحكومة مع المالكي">اياد علاوي ينفي وجود صفقة للتناوب على رئاسة الحكومة مع المالكي</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/government-failure-by-politicians-to-form/" rel="tag">Government - failure by politicians to form</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/government-formation-failure-to/" rel="tag">Government formation - failure to</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraqiya-list/" rel="tag">Iraqiya list</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iyad-allawi/" rel="tag">Iyad Allawi</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p dir="rtl" align="right">نفى زعيم القائمة العراقية اياد علاوي وجود صفقة للتناوب على رئاسة الحكومة مع رئيس الوزراء الحالي نوري المالكي، مطالبا القوى الخارجية بعدم التدخل بالشأن العراقي. <br/>وقال علاوي في تصريح له "إن القائمة العراقية لا تؤمن بسياسة المحاور والاجتثاث والإقصاء، مشددا على ضرورة أن يقوم الحكم بالبلد على اساس الشراكة المتساوية ما بين كل العراقيين، لافتاً الى ان الحكومة تضم كل الطيف العراقي ببرنامج واضح يؤدي الى الأمن والاستقرار". <br/>وأوضح زعيم القائمة أنه كان من المقرر ان يلتقي المالكي السبت الماضي لكن المالكي اعتذر في اللحظة الأخيرة،"موضحا انه ربما كان مشغولاً، إلا أنه سيسعى لموعد آخر معه، وسيكون اللقاء ليس بصدد عقد صفقات وانما مناقشة البرنامج الحكومي". <br/>واعرب علاوي عن أمله بأن لا يحدث تدخل اقليمي في الشأن العراقي الداخلي بأي شكل من الأشكال ، مشيراً الى وجود أدلة واضحة على تدخلات من بعض الأطراف، حسب تعبيره. <br/>واقر"علاوي بأنه كان قوميا متطرفاً وكان يرفض التعامل مع الأقليات، مبينا انه كان موقف خاطئ وقد غادره، وأصبح الآن يتبنى فكرة العروبة المنفتحة التي تؤمن بالتعايش الحضاري البناء مع كل الأطراف غير العربية ومع الاعتراف بخصوصيتها"، حسب قوله.</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10604"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/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 there a new government? | McClatchy">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 19th, 2010 by Nur Hussein Ghazali</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/19/qa-iraq-had-elections-so-why-isnt-there-a-new-government-mcclatchy/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Q&A: Iraq had elections, so why isn’t there a new government? | McClatchy">Q&A: Iraq had elections, so why isn’t there a new government? | McClatchy</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ahmad-chalabi/" rel="tag">Ahmad Chalabi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-sadr/" rel="tag">al sadr</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/allawi/" rel="tag">Allawi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/arabs/" rel="tag">Arabs</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baath/" rel="tag">Ba'ath</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baath-party/" rel="tag">baath party</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baathists/" rel="tag">baathists</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/bombings/" rel="tag">Bombings</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/caretaker-government/" rel="tag">caretaker government</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/chalabi-ahmed/" rel="tag">Chalabi - 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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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-najifi-osama/" rel="tag">al-Najifi -Osama</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/http://www.iwpr.net/people/abeer-mohammed" class="external" target="_blank">Abeer Mohammed</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://www.iwpr.net/people/charles-mcdermid" class="external" target="_blank">Charles McDermid</a> – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://www.iwpr.net/programme/iraq" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq</a>  |  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/abu-ayyub-al-masri/" rel="tag">Abu Ayyub al-Masri</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/abu-omar-al-baghdadi/" rel="tag">Abu Omar al-Baghdadi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-qaeda/" rel="tag">Al Qaeda</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-rasheed-hotel/" rel="tag">al rasheed hotel</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-ahrar-party-sadrists/" rel="tag">Al-Ahrar Party (Sadrists)</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-gatoon-west-baqubah/" rel="tag">al-Gatoon (west Baqubah)</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-iraqiya/" rel="tag">Al-Iraqiya</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-mashtal-southeas-baghdad/" rel="tag">al-Mashtal (southeas Baghdad)</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-shab/" rel="tag">al-shab</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-shabaab/" rel="tag">Al-Shabaab</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-sharqiya/" rel="tag">Al-Sharqiya</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-shurta-al-rabia/" rel="tag">al-Shurta al-Rabia</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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-10091"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/26/25-04-2010-selected-english-language-coverage-2/#respond" title="Comment on 26-04-2010 Selected English Language Coverage">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 26th, 2010 by Nur Hussein Ghazali</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/26/25-04-2010-selected-english-language-coverage-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to 26-04-2010 Selected English 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/roundup/" rel="tag">roundup</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/saleh-al-mutlaq/" rel="tag">Saleh al-Mutlaq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sectarian-violence/" rel="tag">sectarian violence</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/state-of-law-coalition/" rel="tag">State of Law Coalition</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/summaries/" rel="tag">Summaries</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>In today’s daily roundup of English language coverage that caught our attention we find mostly reports that dealt with the banning of 52 candidates. (one of them Saleh al Mutlaq’s brother). Saleh  Al-Mutlaq himself told Asharq Alawsat Newspaper that Maliki offered him any political office he wanted and the dropping of all charges against him if he would split from Allawi’s coalition, that report is well worth your while reading in full.</p> <p>Nur</p> <p> <strong>Editor-in-chief abducted from Baghdad home | Index on Censorship</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>The editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper al-Shahid, Saad al-Aossi, was abducted on 14 April. Armed men invaded his home, confiscated his computer and took him to an unknown location. There have been local reports that the men were from the police and the military, though Baghdad Operations Command issued a statement denying any involvement in his disappearance. His kidnapping came six days after he wrote an article condemning Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for a lack of transparency. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/04/editor-abductedbaghdad-home/" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Source:</strong></a> </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Al-Mutlaq: Al-Maliki Offered Presidency in Exchange for Withdrawal from Iraqiya Bloc Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English)</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Speaking from Amman yesterday, Saleh al-Mutlaq told Asharq Al-Awsat that "I met with Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, the former speaker of the Iraqi parliament, who informed me that he was acting as a representative of al-Maliki. He offered me the greetings of the Prime Minister and asked me to split from the Iraqiya bloc and join the State of Law coalition." Al-Mutlaq revealed that "al-Mashhadani conveyed to me that al-Maliki was offering me any position that I could want in the next government, starting with the Presidency." </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=20729" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">The Day In Quotes:</font></h3> <ol> <li><strong>Anonymous politician to Patrick Cockburn on the recounts: </p> <p></strong>"If Iyad Allawi’s supporters and the Sadrists lose seats because of the recount they will never accept this." </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/us-intervenes-in-iraq-election-row-as-feared-militia-waits-in-wings-1954224.html" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>:</strong> </li> <li><strong>Iyad Allawi on the invalidation of Iraqiya list votes:</strong> <p>"We have instructed lawyers to appeal against the panel’s decision We are very concerned about certain groups controlling the political process in Iraq". </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63P2BB.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Source:</a></strong><strong> </strong></li> <li><strong>Ali Mahmud, spokesman for the Deba’athification panel chaired run by Ahmed Chalabi.</strong> <p>"Their participation in the election is considered cancelled" said Ali Mahmud, spokesman for the justice and accountability panel chaired by former deputy prime minister Ahmed Chalabi. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=38649" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Source</strong></a>: </li> </ol> <h3><font color="#800000">Political Coverage:</font></h3> <p> <strong>Reuters AlertNet – Iraq’s Allawi to appeal panel decision on candidates</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Iraq’s former prime minister Iyad Allawi said on Monday his Iraqiya bloc had instructed lawyers to appeal a decision by an Iraqi review panel to invalidate votes cast for 52 candidates in last month’s vote.</p> <p>"We have instructed lawyers to appeal against the panel’s decision," he told a news conference in Ankara, adding: "We are very concerned about certain groups controlling the political process in Iraq.</p> <p>Allawi’s cross-sectarian bloc Iraqiya list won 91 seats, just two seats ahead of Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s State of Law. The panel’s decision threw into question the slim lead of the winning Sunni-backed alliance. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63P2BB.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Source:</a></strong><strong> </strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Barring of candidates may change Iraq vote outcome – Yahoo! News</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>In an interview with The Associated Press, Independent High Electoral Commission chief Faraj al-Haidari said the recount was only requested — and granted — after the prime minister’s State of Law coalition failed to win the most seats.</p> <p>He said the demand for a recount was "just some kind of a political demonstration." <br/>"Now the other political blocs will also complain, ‘Why didn’t they respond to our complaints? Why did they just respond to the State of Law complaint?’" said a visibly exasperated al-Haidari.</p> <p>"We, as IHEC, consider the decision taken by the court to be incorrect," he said. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100426/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Iraq panel wipes out votes, result in doubt | Reuters</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>But any reduction in Iraqiya’s representation could reignite Sunni anger just as the sectarian violence unleashed after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion recedes.</p> <p>"The ruling of the review panel is politically motivated and could be detrimental to the whole democratic process in Iraq," said Mustafa al-Hiti, a senior member of Allawi’s Iraqiya alliance.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE63P13820100426" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>US intervenes in Iraq election row as feared militia waits in wings – Middle East, World – The Independent</strong><strong>: By Patrick Cockburn in Arbil</strong></p> <blockquote><p>The United States is trying to resolve the growing crisis over the formation of a new Iraqi government, with a deal between current prime minister Nouri al-Maliki and his main rival Iyad Allawi under which each man would hold the post of prime minister for two years at the head of a coalition government, The Independent has learned. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/us-intervenes-in-iraq-election-row-as-feared-militia-waits-in-wings-1954224.html" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p> <p><strong></strong></p> <p><strong></strong></p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Security Coverage:</font></h3> <p> <strong>Iraq: Al-Qaeda offensive targets Diyala – Adnkronos Security</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote>Baghdad, 26 April (AKI) – Iraqi security forces have launched a fresh offensive on Al-Qaeda in the province of Diyala north of Baghdad on Monday, after operations led to the deaths and arrests of key leaders last week. Al-Qaeda in Iraq confirmed that two of its top leaders were killed in a joint operation by Iraqi and US forces a week ago. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.303432773" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full:</strong></a><strong> </strong></p></blockquote> <p> <strong>Three Iraqi policemen seriously injured in bomb blast (1st Lead) – Monsters and Critics</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote>Baghdad – Three Iraqi policemen were seriously injured in a bomb blast in the western city of Falluja on Monday, police said, as some 26,000 Iraqi soldiers and police began a sweep of the area. <br/>The blast, which police said ripped through a patrol vehicle and left three policemen in serious condition, came amid a major police and military offensive against al-Qaeda and related armed groups in western Iraq. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1550980.php/Three-Iraqi-policemen-seriously-injured-in-bomb-blast-1st-Lead" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>: </p> <p></strong><em>see also: </em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1551005.php/Bombings-greet-police-raids-across-Iraq-2nd-Lead" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Bombings greet police raids across Iraq (2nd Lead) – Monsters and Critics</strong></a><strong>: </strong></p></blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Health Coverage:</font></h3> <p><strong>Jaipur NGO holds limb fitment camp in Iraq</strong><strong>: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>JAIPUR – A 22-member team of a Jaipur-based NGO that provides artificial limbs to the disabled has returned from Baghdad after holding a month-long artificial limb fitment camp there. </p> <p>The Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayta Samiti (BMVSS) provided 882 Iraqis artificial limbs during the camp while 75 people were given crutches free of cost. </p> <p>The founder-chief patron of BMVSS D.R. Mehta led the team. Two technicians were from Pakistan where BMVSS is also running a rehabilitation centre. The team returned to Jaipur earlier this week. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://blog.taragana.com/health/2010/04/25/jaipur-ngo-holds-limb-fitment-camp-in-iraq-22102/" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Economic Coverage:</font></h3> <p> <strong>albawaba.com middle east news information::Etihad Crystal Cargo launches services to Erbil</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Etihad Crystal Cargo, a division of Etihad Airways, has launched a weekly service from its hub at Abu Dhabi International Airport to Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/UAE/315074" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a></p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9388"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/disputed-areas/" rel="tag">"disputed" areas</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-iraqiya/" rel="tag">Al-Iraqiya</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/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. But the country is not dissolving and there is less and less chance of it sliding back into full-scale war.</p> <blockquote></blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/patrick-cockburn-iraq-ndash-violent-divided-but-hopeful-1929215.html" class="external" target="_blank">Patrick Cockburn: Iraq – violent, divided, but hopeful – Commentators, Opinion – The Independent</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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/arabs/" rel="tag">Arabs</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/asharq-al-awsat/" rel="tag">Asharq Al-Awsat</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/election-results/" rel="tag">election results</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraqiya-list/" rel="tag">Iraqiya list</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iyad-allawi/" rel="tag">Iyad Allawi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/jalal-talabani/" rel="tag">Jalal Talabani</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kurdish-bloc/" rel="tag">Kurdish Bloc</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kurdistan/" rel="tag">Kurdistan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/march-7th-2010-election-aftermath/" rel="tag">March 7th 2010 Election aftermath</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/national-iraqi-alliance/" rel="tag">National Iraqi Alliance</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sectarianism/" rel="tag">sectarianism</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/separatism/" rel="tag">Separatism</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/state-of-law-coalition/" rel="tag">State of Law Coalition</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/turkmen/" rel="tag">Turkmen</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/yazhidi/" rel="tag">Yazhidi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/yazidis/" rel="tag">yazidis</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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/20121028222831/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"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121028222831/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraqiya-list/page/2/">« Previous Entries</a></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 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