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وإن أبدى رغبته في الإعلان السريع عن اسم التحالف، فإن خلافا قد بدت بوادره في الاجتماع الذي دعا إليه إبراهيم الجعفري في منزله لإعلان اسم التحالف. <br/>وأكدت المصادر أن الصدريين يحتفظون بملفات كبيرة تخص الفساد في حكومة المالكي، وهم يصرون على طرحها أثناء المفاوضات. <br/>وأشارت المصادر إلى أن كتلا وتيارات أخرى تحاول أن تمسك بخيوط هذه الملفات. <br/>إلى ذلك، كشفت مصادر مطلعة أن اللقاءات ما بين قيادات الائتلافين وأعضاء برلمانيين من المكون السني مستمرة، وكان آخرها لقاء المالكي برئيس البرلمان السابق محمود المشهداني أمين سر قائمة وحدة العراق التي يتزعمها وزير الداخلية جواد البولاني وفازت بستة مقاعد. <br/>وتقول المصادر إن بقاء الكتل البرلمانية ذاتها على حالها أمر شبه مستحيل، فبعد انعقاد البرلمان سيبحث كل مكون عن حصته التي كفلها الدستور، ولن يرضى بأقل منها، وهنا ستحدث تصدعات كثيرة داخل الكتل وتشكل أخرى بديلة عنها.</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10878"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sadrist-movement/" rel="tag">Sadrist movement</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sadrs/" rel="tag">Sadrs</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ultranationalism/" rel="tag">ultranationalism</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%ad%d8%b1%d9%83%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1/" rel="tag">حركة الصدر</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Shiites felt a Washington call to mount an insurrection against Saddam Hussein in March 1991 would be met by U.S. military support. They were wrong, and the acrimony lingers. Meanwhile, the already strained Shiite relationship with the Sunni power centers in Baghdad was fractured further by the 1999 assassination of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr by the Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein.</p> <p>Greeting the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the Grand Ayatollah’s son, Moqtada Sadr, who is becoming the éminence grise in Iraqi politics. U.S. administrators in post-invasion Iraq brought much of the exiled opposition and former Shiite militants to power in the new Baghdad. The Shiite population in Iraq, many of whom were marginalized by sanctions and Sunni oppression, cried foul with the new power structures. Washington later, through its surge policy, propped up Sunni tribal elements, leaving Shiite supporters of Moqtada Sadr looking to street politics to stake their claim to power. More than seven years after the U.S.-led invasion and several democratic elections later, the Sadrists in their rise from street tactics to political powerhouse may have christened a king.</p> <p><strong>Sadr’s ideals</strong></p> <p>Drawing on a historic clerical lineage, the modern Sadrist movement grew in part out of a Shiite population frustrated with Western-backed sanctions and the anti-American sentiment that evolved in the wake of a failed uprising against Saddam Hussein in the south in the 1990s.</p> <p>The Sadrs as a clerical establishment had broken with the dominant Shiite clerical ideology in Iraq that largely shunned political involvement. This division, coupled with a strong social organization based on Islamic nationalism and storied clerical lineage, positioned Moqtada Sadr as the embodiment of Shiite martyrdom in the political vacuum of post-invasion Iraq.</p> <p>Sadrist ultranationalism, meanwhile, manifested itself as opposition to former Shiite exiles like Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki who came to power under the umbrella of American occupation. Washington, for its part, hoped Maliki would diminish the political influence of the radical cleric Sadr, whose forces waged a bitter war with the U.S. military and embrace tribal Sunni elements in the post-invasion political landscape. </p> <p>Sadrists make no secret of their disdain for Maliki, especially in the wake of a 2008 offensive in the south where Maliki militarily wrestled control away from supporters of the anti-American cleric. Sadrists under the newly christened Iraqi National Alliance (INA) banner, however, launched a successful campaign against Maliki’s State of Law party in the March 7 election for Council of Representatives. Despite talk of a coalition between State of Law and INA, a bitter rivalry between Maliki and Sadrists remains.</p> <p>The Sadrist movement, rallied by a base of disenfranchised Shiites, emerged from the March 7 vote with 40 seats, the largest take for any INA member. An alliance with INA would be four seats shy of the majority needed to form a new government and possibly position Maliki for a second term. Sadrists, however, said Maliki must give up his leadership role.</p> <p><strong>Political trends</strong></p> <p>Maliki in 2006 opposed U.S. pressure on Sadrist forces in order to preserve alliances, but later acquiesced along with Sadrist rivals in the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), splitting the main Shiite political alliance. Maliki later launched his 2008 offensive into Basra, the economic capital of Iraq, to reduce the political influence of Sadrists ahead of provincial elections in January 2009.</p> <p>Washington had advocated a bottom-up strategy of state building in Iraq with its surge, which coincided roughly with Maliki’s push against ultranationalists in the south. By backing the former exile groups and Sunni tribes, however, Washington left much of the populist element of the domestic Shiite population to rally around the political momentum of the Sadrists, who, like Hezbollah in Lebanon, had nurtured a strong base through its social programs.</p> <p>The Sadrist insurgent response to American occupiers and Shiite exiles was not simply an expression of frustration, as political influence in post-invasion Iraq was often gained by a show of strength in the violence that often comes with emerging democracies. Sadr through his insurgency was simply staking out his political turf.</p> <p>The potential for sectarian violence in Iraq amid the current phased withdrawal of American troops and a looming political vacuum, meanwhile, suggests Sadr could effectively reactivate his militia, moving the political fight to the streets, as was the case in the wake of the U.S.-led invasion.</p> <p>Reconciliation in a young democracy is open to groups with violent pasts. This is true in Iraq both for the anti-Saddam former militants in Maliki’s Dawa Party as much as it is for the ultranationalist Sadrist movement, regardless of what Washington wants for Baghdad.</p> <p><strong>The coming of the king</strong></p> <p>Sadrists drifted toward isolation in the wake of the Basra offensive, moving away from the main Shiite power centers while Sadr took exile in Iran to take up clerical studies. The 2008 assault left Sadrists shoved to the sidelines in the south, but they returned in 2010 as kingmakers. This suggests that while Sadr learned that militancy wasn’t the only path to power, his strength as an anti-establishment force gave him noted political influence for a low-ranking cleric.</p> <p>Sadrists and ISCI political entities under the INA banner make up a remarkable show of Shiite unity in Iraq, yet many of the factions in the organization reveal deep divisions once the façade of the alliance is pulled back. Ammar al-Hakim, the leader of ISCI, labeled the Sadr militia as killers in the months before the March vote, reigniting storied animosity between the two Shiite sects. While the endurance of Sadr as the embodiment of Shiite martyrdom is a threat to ISCI and the rest of the Shiite political elite, former exiles and otherwise, it forces them to make room for his nationalist and anti-American zeal.</p> <p>In the wake of a brutal street fight between the Sadrist militia and American forces, Sadrists in 2005 elections emerged with roughly 10 percent of the seats in Parliament. The rise of the anti-American Sadr was met with an equal assault on U.S. ambitions in the region through the vast political support that Iran gave to many of the Shiite forces operating in Iraq.</p> <p>Despite his lack of clerical credentials and little history with formal political action beyond grassroots fervor, Sadr and his supporters have shown remarkable political pragmatism in post-war Iraq. Unless Maliki and his Washington backers are somehow able to sideline the firebrand cleric, Sadr may return from his studies in Iran with the dual distinction of a clerical and political force.</p> <p><strong>The new status quo?</strong></p> <p>Sadr denounced the interim government in Iraq as soon as it was formed by U.S. administrators in July 2003 by establishing a Shiite quasi-theocracy in the south. The Bush administration as a result branded the firebrand cleric and his supporters outlaws, giving disenfranchised Shiites even more reason to rally around the young Sadr.</p> <p>Sadr’s opposition to the U.S. occupation was a continuation of his family’s legacy of nationalism in Iraq. The political decision by Washington to back exiled Shiite elites, many of whom lacked street credibility back home in Iraq, accompanied by a later decision to practice selective reconciliation during the surge, emboldened Sadr’s frustrated constituents, leaving him in a position of political strength.</p> <p>U.S. military officials accused Iran of playing a major role in Shiite political alliances in Baghdad to the tune of roughly $17 million. Sadr, meanwhile, is no doubt influenced by his overseers in Qom. But the Sadrist tradition of ultranationalism not only keeps U.S. dominance at bay, it also checks Iranian ambitions of hegemony as well. While the surge strategy may have brought Iraq back from the brink of civil war, it did little in the way of settling old political scores.</p> <p>The main components under the Shiite political umbrella—ISCI, Maliki’s Dawa Party and the Sadrists—while divided, represent some of the most dominant power centers in Iraq. The Sadrist move away from religious neutrality in political affairs gives the movement political and clerical staying power. With his 40 seats in Parliament, Sadr isn’t going anywhere.</p> <p>Iraq in the wake of the March 7 parliamentary elections stands at a political divide. Maliki, through a political alliance with the INA, would be just four seats shy of the majority needed to form a new government in Iraq. Sadrists, the largest component of INA, however, maintain Maliki will not serve again as prime minister, leaving the shaky political alliance, and the Iraqi government, in the hands of Moqtada Sadr.</p> <p><em>Daniel Graeber is a writer and political analyst based in Michigan. His work on Iraq and the broader Levant has been featured extensively with </em>United Press International<em> as well as foreign media outlets. His academic contributions include an assessment of the U.S. doctrine of containment. This article was originally published by the </em>Middle East Political and Economic Institute<em>: mepei.com/. </em></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://www.worldpress.org/Mideast/3560.cfm" class="external" target="_blank">Sadr’s Political Role in Iraq – Worldpress.org</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10389"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/07/%d9%85%d9%83%d8%aa%d8%a8-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%83%d9%8a%d9%85-%d9%8a%d9%86%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d8%b9%d8%b7%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d9%85%d9%87%d9%84%d8%a9-%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%a6%d8%aa%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%81-%d8%af%d9%88/#respond" title="Comment on مكتب الحكيم ينفي اعطاء مهلة لائتلاف دولة القانون لتقديم مرشح بديل عن المالكي">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 7th, 2010 by Hussein Kareem</div> <h3><a 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tortured until the country’s Human Rights Ministry gained access to the facility, Iraqi officials say. </p> <p>The men were detained by the Iraqi army in October in sweeps targeting Sunni groups in Nineveh province, a stronghold of the group Al Qaeda in Iraq and other militants in the north. The provincial governor alleged at the time that ordinary citizens had been detained as well, often without a warrant. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/africa/la-fg-iraq-prison19-2010apr19,0,4657710.story" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> <h3>The Day In Quotes:</h3> <ol> <li><strong>Ammar al-Hakim on Allawi and Maliki</strong><strong>: </p> <p></strong>"We are talking about a person who should be accepted on a national level. This is the most important point because the prime minister is not going to be a prime minister of his own party or his political movement, but for all of Iraq … On such a basis, we find it’s difficult for Mr. Maliki or even Mr. Ayad Allawi to gain the needed acceptance." </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100419/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq" class="external" target="_blank">Source</a></strong><strong>: </strong></li> <li><strong>Maliki on the killing of Abu Omar al Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al Masri</strong><strong>: <p></strong>"I give the happy tidings of the strike, which targeted and killed Abu Omar al Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al Masri, who were hiding in a hole in Tharthar area," </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/04/19/92419/two-al-qaida-leaders-killed-in.html" class="external" target="_blank">Source</a></strong><strong>: </strong></li> <li><strong>Kamal el-Saadi on the Electoral Commission Ordering A Recount in Baghdad</strong><strong>: <p></strong>"We expect that this will change the results for the benefit of State of Law,". </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE63I1AT" class="external" target="_blank">Source</a></strong><strong>:</strong> </li> </ol> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63I12J.htm" class="external" target="_blank"> </p> <p> </a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63I12J.htm" class="external" target="_blank"></a><br/> <h3><font color="#800000">Political Coverage:</font></h3> </p> <blockquote><p><strong></strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Iraq appeals panel orders manual ballot recount in Baghdad | Xinhua :</strong> </p> <blockquote><p>An Iraqi appeals panel ordered Monday manual recount for ballots in Baghdad after reviewing complaints by political blocs, an electoral commission official said. </p> <p>"The appeals panel tasked with reviewing the complaints of the political blocs about the parliamentary elections decided to carry out manual recount for Baghdad province only," Hamdiya al-Husseiny, a commission member told reporters. </p> <p>Earlier, several blocs, including incumbent Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s State of Law bloc, demanded manual recount, claiming that hundreds of thousands of votes have been manipulated in five provinces. </p> <p>On April 11, Hachim al-Hassani, spokesman of Maliki’s bloc said that his bloc demanded manual recount of five provinces, including Baghdad, but he added that his bloc would accept manual recount even if it is at least only in Baghdad. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-04/19/c_13258385.htm"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Iraqi panel orders vote recount in Baghdad | Reuters: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>Electoral commissioner Hamdiya al-Husseini said the manual recount would begin immediately but she was not sure how long it would take.</p> <p>The capital accounts for 68 seats in the 325-seat parliament, making it a key prize, and Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s State of Law alliance had been seeking a recount after coming a close second in the election.</p> <p>"We expect that this will change the results for the benefit of State of Law," said Kamal el-Saadi, a senior member of Maliki’s coalition.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE63I1AT" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Iraq Shiite cleric doubts front-runners in PM race – Yahoo! News: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The cleric who heads one of Iraq’s key Shiite political parties says neither front-runner in the March 7 parliamentary elections has enough popular support to lead country in the next government. </p> <p>Ammar al-Hakim of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council says he wouldn’t reject either candidate, if all sides jockeying for power since the inconclusive elections agree on one of them. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100419/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Turkey on Iraq’s side in all conditions: FM: Xinhua</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Monday that Turkey was and would be on Iraq’s side in all conditions. </p> <p>Davutoglu made the remarks at a joint press conference with the visiting Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi in the Turkish capital of Ankara. </p> <p>Turkey has good relations with all groups in Iraq, said Davutoglu, adding he is confident that all groups in Iraq would come together to build their country. </p> <p>Davutoglu said he discussed with al-Hashimi the post-election period in Iraq, adding Turkey views that the Iraqi parliament would possibly shape the next century of Iraq. </p> <p>For his part, al-Hashimi said the relations between Iraq and Turkey are "very constructive, successful and very clean." </p> <p>On his attitude towards the new Iraqi government, al-Hashimi said the most important thing in Iraq was to establish the new government according to the constitution. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-04/19/c_13258447.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong> </p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Security Coverage:</font></h3> <p> <strong>Iraq says 2 top al-Qaida leaders killed — Maliki | xinhuanet: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki announced Monday the killing of top leaders of Qaida in Iraq network, Abu Omer al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Musri. </p> <p>"A cell from our intelligence killed Abu Omer al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Musri during operation in Thirthar area in north of Baghdad," Maliki told reporters in a news conference. </p> <p>Maliki said that the Iraqi intelligence was following the al- Qaida top leaders for long time and the Iraqi troops managed to capture some leading Qaida militants who led the Iraqi security forces to the whereabouts of the two most wanted Qaida leaders in Iraq. </p> <p>Maliki also said that his troops got support from the U.S. troops "by helping the Iraqi side in checking verifying the intelligence reports. </p> <p>He also showed the news conference pictures of the two killed Qaida leaders. </p> <p>Abu Omer al-Baghdadi is the head of the self-style Islamic State of Iraq, which is an al-Qaida-led umbrella organization of extremist Sunni militants groups. </p> <p>Abu Ayyub al-Musri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, is the top leader of al-Qaida in Iraq network, who replaced the former Qaida leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, when Zarqawi was killed in a U. S. airstrike on June 7, 2006. </p> <p>Zarqawi’s killing was expected to undermine the Qaida organisation, but the main blow to the terrorist networks came when their local Sunni insurgent allies turned on them, sickened by their indiscriminate bloodshed against both Shiite and Sunni communities.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-04/19/c_13258638.htm" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a>: </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>U.S. soldier dies in raid that kills top al Qaida in Iraq leaders | McClatchy: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Iraqi and U.S. security forces said Monday that they’d killed the two top leaders of al Qaida in Iraq in what the American military said could be the most significant blow to the militant Sunni Muslim organization since it was formed. </p> <p>Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki announced that the men known as Abu Omar al Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al Masri were killed Sunday in a raid in northern Iraq. He displayed photographs for state television of the bodies of Baghdadi and Masri, both noms de guerre for leaders of the group. </p> <p>"I give the happy tidings of the strike, which targeted and killed Abu Omar al Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al Masri, who were hiding in a hole in Tharthar area,” Maliki said at a news conference in Baghdad. </p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/04/19/92419/two-al-qaida-leaders-killed-in.html" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong>: </p> </blockquote> <p> <strong>Al-Qaeda killing is a morale boost – but the fighting’s not over – Times Online</strong><strong>: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>The operation marks their biggest counter-terrorism success since the assassination three years ago of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, the previous leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. His demise was even more of a headline-grabbing triumph than the killing on Sunday of his successor, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who headed the Islamic State of Iraq, a shadowy, Islamist umbrella group linked to al-Qaeda. </p> <p>Al-Zarqawi was a better-known figure, deployed extensively as a propaganda tool by both sides, with al-Qaeda using him to instil fear in its enemies, while the United States made him the face of an insurgency that was spiralling out of control. </p> <p>His death, however, failed to reduce the tempo of the sectarian slaughter and mass bombings that escalated under the command of al-Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, who is thought to be Egyptian. </p> <p>With that in mind, it is very unlikely that his death and that of al-Baghdadi will signal the collapse of al-Qaeda in Iraq, because others will take over. </p> <p>What it will do, however, is damage morale and put even greater pressure on an organisation that has already seen its ability to wreak havoc undermined since 2007, when the US-led military stepped up its efforts against it.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article7102312.ece" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a></strong><strong>: </strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>US soldier dies in non-combat incident in Iraq :</strong> </p> <blockquote><p>The U.S. military says an American soldier has died of non-combat related injuries in Iraq.</p> <p>A statement by the military on Monday says the United States Division-South soldier died of injuries sustained in southern Iraq on Sunday.</p> <p><em>[snip]</em></p> <p>The death raises to at least 4,392 the number of U.S. military personnel who have died in Iraq since the war began in March 2003. That’s according to an Associated Press count.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_IRAQ_US_CASUALTIES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-04-19-07-57-15" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong> :</strong></p> </blockquote> <div style="border-right: silver 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: silver 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: silver 1px solid; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: silver 1px solid"><strong>Reuters AlertNet – FACTBOX-Military and civilian deaths in Iraq: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>A U.S. soldier was killed and three were injured when their helicopter crashed in northern Iraq late on Saturday evening, the U.S. military said on Sunday. </p> <p>Following are the latest figures for soldiers and civilians killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003: </p> <p>U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES: </p> <ul> <li>United States 4,391 </li> <li>Britain 179 </li> <li>Other nations 139 </li> </ul> <p>IRAQIS: </p> <ul> <li>Military Between 4,900 and 6,375# </li> <li>Civilians Between 95,888 and 104,595 * </li> </ul> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE6371KB.htm" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a>: </p></blockquote></div> <p> </p> <h3><font color="#800000">Economic Coverage:</font></h3> <p> <strong>Carrefour leads the way into postwar Iraq – Times Online: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Carrefour is set to become the first multinational retailer to enter the Iraqi market since the war. The world’s second-largest retailer will open a two-storey store in Iraq’s Kurdish north in September. </p> <p>Although Iraq has attracted natural resources groups, the country’s GDP of about £2,400 a head, coupled with political and military instability, has meant it has struggled to attract customer-focused companies. </p> <p>Carrefour’s store in Arbil, one of northern Iraq’s largest cities, will be run by Majid al-Futtaim Group (MAF), the French hypermarket group’s Dubai- based Middle East franchise partner. The store will anchor a development that will include an ice rink, a cinema complex and a bowling alley, according to the Arbil-based Kurdish Globe. </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailing/article7102270.ece" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a>: </p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Health Coverage:</font></h3> <p> <strong>Cancer of the conflict zone: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>When my sister, 101st Airborne Army Capt. Chaplain Fran E. Stuart, returned from Iraq, she was forever changed. </p> <p>Not only had the desert sand, gun blasts and heat penetrated her psyche during her one-year deployment, but a carcinogen had made its way into her body as well. Unbeknown to her, the carcinogen was making a home in my sister’s body, along with the Anthrax vaccine, depleted uranium, burn pit smoke and contaminated water dished up at every meal. </p> <p>In March 2006, when my sister was 41, she was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive, stage-IV dysgerminoma cancer, also called “germ cell” cancer, which is usually only seen in pregnant women and teenage girls. The cancer was advancing quickly, wrapping itself around her internal organs like an octopus and gathering fuel from her central abdomen. My sister was flown to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington for immediate surgery and further testing, when a volleyball-sized tumor was removed from her abdomen. Fortunately, doctors were able to corral her cancer, but only after 10 months and 35 rounds of exhaustive chemotherapy. She wasn’t the only one undergoing such trauma. While visiting her at Walter Reed, I witnessed many soldiers returning from Iraq with cancer, unknown to the public and unacknowledged by the military. Walter Reed had two floors dedicated solely to the soldiers arriving daily with cancer. Their lives were spared on the battlefield, but the cancer was ravaging their bodies from within.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/opinion/2010/April/opinion_April116.xml&section=opinion&col=" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a>: </p> </blockquote> <h3><font color="#800000">Commentary and Analysis</font></h3> <p> <strong>Blackwater Officials Indicted for Weapons Violations: </strong><br/> <blockquote> <p>Last week, the Justice Department announced that a federal grand jury had returned a fifteen-count indictment against five current and former Blackwater officials, charging them with conspiracy to violate a series of federal gun laws, obstruction of justice and making false statements to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Among those indicted were Blackwater owner Erik Prince’s longtime right-hand man, former company president Gary Jackson, Blackwater’s former legal counsel Andrew Howell and two former company vice presidents. Given Blackwater’s track record and the severity of other allegations against the company–including killing unarmed civilians–if the charges in this case stick, it would be somewhat akin to Al Capone going down for tax evasion. The one major difference being, the number-one man at Blackwater, Erik Prince, is evading prosecution and jail. Prince, who remains the Blackwater empire’s sole owner, was not indicted. </p> <p><em>[snip]</em></p> </blockquote> <blockquote><p>Meanwhile, as Blackwater officials face another round of attempted criminal prosecutions, the company continues to fight off the remaining civil lawsuits stemming from the Nisour Square shooting. Last year Blackwater settled with most of the victims, reportedly for a total of $5 million. The only remaining suit against the company over Nisour Square was brought by a small group of Iraqis, most prominent among them Mohammed Kinani, the father of the youngest known victim of the shooting. His 9-year-old son, Ali, was shot in the head that day and died shortly after from his injuries. Kinani originally sued Blackwater in state court in North Carolina, but last week a federal judge sided with Blackwater and took control over the case. That judge, Terrence Boyle, was a former legislative aide to the late Republican Senator Jesse Helms, who urged President Ronald Reagan to appoint Boyle, which Reagan did. For more than a decade, Democrats blocked Boyle’s nomination to the appelate court, characterizing him as an ultraconservative who opposed civil rights and was often over-ruled on appeal. It is hard to imagine a better judge for Blackwater to draw in this case. <p>As it has done in other cases, Blackwater has asked the Obama Justice Department to intervene in Kinani’s case and to make the US government–not Blackwater and the individual shooters in the case–the defendant. Legal experts have told The Nation that if the Justice Department did that, the case would be dead in the water. The Justice Department has not responded to Blackwater’s request. Blackwater, however, is not wasting any time seeking out alternatives. </p> <p>On April 7, lawyers for the six alleged shooters and Blackwater asked Judge Boyle to replace Blackwater and the shooters with the "United States" in the case, citing the Westfall Act, which was passed in 1988 "to protect federal employees from personal liability for common law torts committed within the scope of their employment, while providing persons injured by the common law torts of federal employees with an appropriate remedy against the United States." If Boyle were to do this, the case would likely be immediately dismissed. </p> </blockquote> <blockquote><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100503/scahill2" class="external" target="_blank">Read in full</a>:</strong><strong> </strong></p></blockquote> <p><strong>Embedded war reporting cannot escape its own bias | Alison Banville | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk:</strong> </p> <blockquote><p>The boast of "greater reality" attached to embedding is a falsehood which actually clouds the vision of anyone attempting to make sense of a conflict. News channels showing reports from journalists embedded with British troops while failing to give equal airtime to reports from embeds with opposing forces or civilians qualifies not only as blatant bias, it is fertile territory for propaganda. So why are we so eager to accommodate embeds?</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/18/embedded-war-reporting-iraq-afghanistan" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Does Saudi Arabia Really Want a United Iraq? | By Reidar Visser | The Gulf Research Unit’s Blog: </strong></p> <blockquote><p>The list of Iraqi guests at the palace in Riyadh over the past weeks prompts numerous questions about Saudi policy towards its eastern neighbour. For several years now, Riyadh’s Iraq policy has been a lot more passive than that of Iran, characterised by more muttering than meddling, and with relatively few attempts to reach out more broadly beyond Sunni-oriented leaders. For a long time it seemed as if the Saudi leaders still held on to futile dreams of an Iraq where Shiites could be almost excluded, as indicated for example by reports that Riyadh played a role in scuppering the tentative but promising alliance between Abu Risha (the awakening leader of Anbar) and Nuri al-Maliki last summer.</p> <p>But with recent visits to Riyadh by ISCI’s Ammar al-Hakim and Kurdish leaders Jalal Talabani and Masud Barzani, it is clear that the problem does not have to do with insurmountable ethno-sectarian barriers, but rather with the Saudi choice of guests. Between them, messieurs Hakim, Talabani and Barzani must take the lion’s share of the responsibility for the virtual wrecking of the Iraqi state through the design of the new, highly decentralising Iraqi constitution in 2005, as well as subsequent measures between 2005 and 2007 to consolidate the new order (including a law on implementing federalism south of Kurdistan). By way of contrast, Nuri al-Maliki, the Shiite leader who has made the greatest attempts at reversing some of the unfortunate results of the 2005 constitution, especially since 2008, was not invited to Riyadh.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gulfunit.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/does-saudi-arabia-really-want-a-united-iraq/" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a>: </p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Update:</strong></p> <p><strong>The Manual Recount in Baghdad: What Maliki Wants « Iraq and Gulf Analysis: </strong></p> <blockquote> <p>Prime minister Nuri al-Maliki and his SLA have been the driving force in demanding the recount. To better understand their aims it may be useful to revert to what a Maliki adviser, Ali al-Musawi, told media about their coalition visions back on 16 March, at a time when Maliki and Allawi were still neck and neck. He then said that SLA was looking to form a “political majority” with the “Kurds, parts of the Iraqi National Alliance, parts of Iraqiyya, Tawafuq and other small parties”. This would in many ways mean a return to the situation in 2007, after the defection of the Sadrists (November 2006, after the Maliki-Bush meeting) but before that of Tawafuq and Iraqiyya in the summer), though with Maliki in a relatively stronger position vis-à-vis the decentralisers among the Kurds and ISCI. It has also been suggested that the United States and Saudi Arabia would be happy with this kind of outcome, even though the ideological contradictions would still be much bigger than in a smaller, centralist Iraqiyya/SLA government, and to call it a “political majority” would be something of a euphemism.</p> <p> <br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gulfanalysis.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/the-manual-recount-in-baghdad-what-maliki-wants/#comments" class="external" target="_blank"><strong>Read in full</strong></a><strong>:</strong></p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9858"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/18/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%83%d9%8a%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%ad%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%81-%d9%85%d8%b9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%83%d9%8a-%d9%85%d8%a7-%d8%b2%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%a3%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%85%d9%87/#respond" title="Comment on الحكيم: التحالف مع المالكي ما زال أمامه مزيد من النقاش بشأن تسمية رئيس الوزراء">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 18th, 2010 by Khalil Ibn Hussein</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/18/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%83%d9%8a%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%ad%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%81-%d9%85%d8%b9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%83%d9%8a-%d9%85%d8%a7-%d8%b2%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%a3%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%85%d9%87/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to الحكيم: التحالف مع المالكي ما زال أمامه مزيد من النقاش بشأن تسمية رئيس الوزراء">الحكيم: التحالف مع المالكي ما زال أمامه مزيد من النقاش بشأن تسمية رئيس الوزراء</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/al-hakim-ammar/" rel="tag">al-Hakim Ammar</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ammar-al-hakim/" rel="tag">Ammar al-Hakim</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/government-formation-negotiations/" rel="tag">Government formation negotiations</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/siic-sciri/" rel="tag">SIIC (SCIRI)</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p dir="rtl" align="right"><a title="Ammar_al-Hakim_caption_Arabic by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/3299349957/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; margin: 5px 15px 5px 0px" height="214" alt="Ammar_al-Hakim_caption_Arabic" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511im_/http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3560/3299349957_3b93d1d714_o.jpg" width="300" align="left"/></a>قال رئيس المجلس الأعلى الإسلامي في العراق السيد عمار الحكيم إن التحالف بين الائتلاف الوطني العراقي وائتلاف دولة القانون ما زال أمامه مزيد من النقاش بخصوص تسمية رئيس الوزراء وتفاصيل أخرى. <br/>واشار الحكيم إلى أن ائتلاف دولة القانون الذي يتزعمه رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي مازال يعارض انعقاد الطاولة المستديرة للقوائم الفائزة في الانتخابات. <br/>من جانب اخر قال عضو الائتلاف العراقي محمد البياتي ان مفاوضات الائتلاف الوطني ودولة القانون باتت تقترب من نهايتها وان تاخير الاعلان عن التحالف بين الطرفين ياتي لانشغالهم في توحيد البرنامج الحكومي وتحديد معايير اختيار رئيس الوزراء. <br/>واضاف: "خلال الايام المقبلة سيعلن عن التحالف بين الائتلافين لغرض البدء بتشكيل الحكومة بمشاركة كتلة التحالف الكردستاني". <br/>من جهته، ذكر عزت الشابندر القيادي في ائتلاف دولة القانون ان "التحالف مع ائتلاف الوطني امر محسوم"،مبينا ان الحوار الان حول مناقشة ترشيح رئيس الوزراء، هل تتم قبل او بعد اعلان التحالف.</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9711"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/10/sadrist-current-our-share-includes-ten-ministries/#respond" title="Comment on Sadrist Current: Our Share Includes Ten Ministries">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 10th, 2010 by Harith</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/04/10/sadrist-current-our-share-includes-ten-ministries/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Sadrist Current: Our Share Includes Ten Ministries">Sadrist Current: Our Share Includes Ten Ministries</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/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/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ammar-al-hakim/" rel="tag">Ammar al-Hakim</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/government-formation-negotiations/" rel="tag">Government formation negotiations</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/march-7th-2010-election-aftermath/" rel="tag">March 7th 2010 Election aftermath</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/muqtada-al-sadr/" rel="tag">Muqtada al-Sadr</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sadrist-bloc/" rel="tag">Sadrist Bloc</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/siic-sciri/" rel="tag">SIIC (SCIRI)</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%ad%d8%b1%d9%83%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1/" rel="tag">حركة الصدر</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>The leader of the Sadrist Current in Iraq, Muqtada al Sadr, who is currently residing in Iran, is expected to reveal what one leading member of the current described as the “bargaining [offers]” made to the Sadrist Current by the State of Law Coalition headed by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, in exchange for supporting al Maliki’s nomination for premiership. </p> <p>The senior member of the Sadrist current, who spoke to Asharq Al-Awsat on condition of anonymity, said that “during a television interview that will be broadcast within days on one of the satellite channels [Muqtada al Sadr] will reveal the scale of bargaining [offers] made to the current in exchange for him (Nouri al Maliki) keeping or taking the prime minister position.” One of the lists tried to offer the Sadrist Current ten ministries in exchange for nominating [a member of] that list to assume the position of prime minister. The source said, “In any case, the [Sadrist] current obtained ten ministries and haggling will not help.”</p> <p>On his part, a source from the Islamic Supreme Council headed by Ammar al Hakim stressed that the National Iraqi Alliance does not want a prime minister “who provokes the neighboring [states].” The source explained that the dialogue between the National Iraqi Alliance, which is also headed by al Hakim, and the State of Law Coalition headed by Nouri al Maliki, is still in its preliminary stages.</p> <p>Abbas al Khafaji, a media official from the office of Humam Hammoudi, a leading figure in the Islamic Supreme Council, told Asharq Al-Awsat that “there has been agreement on a specific mechanism through which the next prime minister will be selected, as a set of conditions have been put in place, the most important of which are the election of the person will not provoke neighboring states, [the person] will be accepted by all political parties in the country, competent and will not act independently.”</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=20531" class="external" target="_blank">Sadrist Current: Our Share Includes Ten Ministries Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English)</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-9264"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/03/22/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d9%8a%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%a7%d9%86%d9%8a-%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%a8%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%8a%d8%b9%d8%b1%d9%81-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%b3-%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%ad%d9%82%d9%88%d9%82%d9%87/#respond" title="Comment on السيستاني : لابد ان يعرف الناس بان حقوقهم وارادتهم لن تكون الا عبر الانتخابات">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 22nd, 2010 by Ali</div> <h3><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/grand-ayatollah-sistani/" rel="tag">Grand Ayatollah Sistani</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/political-guidance-by-clergy/" rel="tag">Political Guidance by Clergy</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p dir="rtl" align="right"><a title="Grand_Ayatollah_Sistani_350x250 by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/3318825102/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; margin: 10px 15px 5px 0px" height="250" alt="Grand_Ayatollah_Sistani_350x250" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511im_/http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3557/3318825102_0b32db69b5_o.jpg" width="350" align="left"/></a>اكد المرجع الديني آية الله السيد علي السيستاني ضرورة ان يعرف الناس بان حقوقهم وارادتهم لن تكون الا عبر الانتخابات. نقل ذلك عنه السيد عمار الحكيم رئيس المجلس الاعلى الاسلامي العراقي في كلمة له بمناسبة الذكرى السنوية لرحيل المرجع محسن الحكيم في النجف الاشرف. <br/>وقال الحكيم " ان السيد السيستاني يشدد على ضرورة ان يعرف الناس بان حقوقها وارادتها لن تكون الا من خلال صندوق الانتخابات وعليهم ان يعرفوا هذه الحقيقة ، ويحاكموا المتصدي ان كان محسنا يجددوا له الثقة وان اخطأ بحقهم وأساء يمنحوا الثقة لمن يستحقها. <br/>وتابع الحكيم ان السيد السيستاني ذكر ان صندوق الانتخابات هو الأساس وهو المدخل للحفاظ على حقوق الناس ، وحماية مصالحهم وصيانة مستقبله ، ومن الآن اذهبوا وثقفوا الناس على الانتخابات القادمة بعد اربع سنوات.</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-8939"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/03/04/iraq-all-parties-in-iraq-set-for-the-vote-asia-news/#respond" title="Comment on IRAQ All parties in Iraq set for the vote – Asia News">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 4th, 2010 by Yusuf Al-Jezani</div> <h3><a 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padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: lightgrey 1px solid; width: 360px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: lightgrey 1px solid"> <p>The election begins today for certain military and service sectors. Double suicide attack to election polls in Baghdad. The Shiites are divided into two camps, even the Kurds. The novelty of the secular party of Allawi. The game play is between a unitary and centralized state and a federal state. </p> </p></div> <p>Baghdad (<a title="AsiaNews" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://www.asianews.it/news-en/All-parties-in-Iraq-set-for-the-vote-17794.html" class="external" target="_blank">AsiaNews</a>) – Voting in parliamentary elections in Iraq starts today, with a part of the electorate called to the polls in advance of the March 7date. This amounts to 796 thousand people – including soldiers, prison officers and health care workers and hospitalized patients – divided into 450 polling stations opened specifically in all regions. Tomorrow it will be the turn of Iraqis abroad. In the meantime, suicide bombers attacked two polling stations in different areas of Baghdad killing at least seven people and wounding many others .    </p> <p>There are six candidates for the post  of prime minister: the current prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, Vice President Adel Abdel Mahdi, Minister of Finance Baqer Jaber Solage, Iyad Allawi, prime minister of the first post-Saddam Iraqi government, the controversial financier linked to the CIA and former deputy prime minister Ahmed Chalabi, and Interior Minister Jawad Bolani. This time the political spectrum of candidates in the running are very different than that of the last elections in 2005.  </p> <h3>The split of the Shiites </h3> <p>The United Iraqi Alliance (UIA), the Shiite coalition that won in 2005, no longer exists. Its dissolution has marked the split of the Shiites. The new coalition, the Iraqi National Alliance (INA), brings together parties along more confessional lines, such as the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) led by Ammar al-Hakim, a current of Moqtada al-Sadr and Fadhila party, but does not include the followers of the Da’wa Party who have remained loyal to al-Maliki, who has founded a new list. It is the Alliance for the Rule of Law, which aims to have a more nationalist and secular spirit (so much so that he tried to involve some Sunnis and Kurds), but has failed to unmark a suspected close reliance on the Islamic regime in Tehran .     The recent campaign de-baathification – which excluded 500 candidates, mostly Sunnis – put the outgoing premier in a bad light for having supported the move, causing him to lose credibility as a figure above the sectarian struggles.  </p> <h3>Allawi’s "secularists"</h3> <p>It’s a real debut at the polls, however, for the Iraqi National Movement (INM), led by former prime minister, Iyad Allawi (Shiite). The coalition also includes several Sunni formations and offers itself as the only real secular grouping. The INM is the greatest opponent to the INA and the list of al-Maliki, and was also struck by  the controversial de-baathification campaign.      </p> <h3>The Sunni Front </h3> <p>After the boycott of the vote in 2005, a choice that relegated them to the margins of decision making in the country, the Sunnis seem willing to take part in the elections. Sunni political groupings are present within INMA, but also on independent lists.  </p> <h3>The Kurds </h3> <p>Although the formations have maintained a strong Kurdish identity, even here the political landscape has changed. For the two historical parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), have been moine by Gorran (Movement for Change), led by a former member of the PUK, Pusherwan Mustafa. The movement that emerged in the regional elections in July, promotes itself as independent and the sole opponent of corruption and cronyism.    </p> <p>The idea now seems established that national reconciliation is no longer an issue of  resolving the conflict between Shiites and Sunnis, but between advocates of a centralized unitary state (the formation of al-Maliki) and proponents of a federal or confederal state (Kurds and of the Sunnis), between defenders of a secular approach (Allawi) and defenders of a religious approach. </p> <p>Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://www.asianews.it/news-en/All-parties-in-Iraq-set-for-the-vote-17794.html" class="external" target="_blank">IRAQ All parties in Iraq set for the vote</a> – by Layla Yousif Rahema – <a title="Asia News English" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120517021511/http://www.asianews.it/en.html" class="external" target="_blank">AsiaNews</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="navigation"> <div 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