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Allawi Gambit Gilbert Achcar Writes In

Juan Cole 03/04/2005

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Allawi Gambit

Gilbert Achcar writes in an email:

Today’s (3/3) Al-Hayat quotes Allawi’s conditions for any agreement on the government:

“to keep the security apparatuses in their present formula; no interference from the [Shia parties’] militias in their functioning; to prevent regional and neighboring states [not the US, of course!] from interfering in Iraq’s domestic affairs; to recognize the [Bremer-devised]Transitional Administrative Law as the main reference of the state, and not to allow its revision.”

According to the same article in Al-Hayat, Allawi is offering Chalabi’s group within the UIA — Chalabi, formerly Washington’s man, is bitter against al-Jaafari’s designation as the UIA’s candidate to head the future government, after having tried to get himself nominated — to form an alliance which could try to get the 2/3 majority in alliance with the Kurdish bloc.

Allawi is very active at trying to form a 2/3 bloc (he even offered the Iraqi Communist Party 2 MPs to join — the ICP is considering the offer!), though this prospect is quite difficult to achieve and, if successful, would lead to a severe deterioration of the already strained relations between the Shia parties + Sistani and the occupation.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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