WH expects Allawi to lead parallel administration on new Security Council

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Iraq leaders meet as US presses for deal

Fri Mar 24, 2006 -- {snips} A senior government source told Reuters that the meeting scheduled to begin at the president's offices at 3 p.m. (1200 GMT) would focus on finalizing an agreement to set up a National Security Council. Negotiations on the make-up of the government itself would not resume until Saturday, the source said.

A spokesman for President Jalal Talabani said leaders of the main parliamentary parties elected in December would attend, although an aide to at least one of them, secular former prime minister Iyad Allawi, said he was unlikely to attend in person.

ALLAWI ROLE

Allawi, with powerful backers in Washington, is widely tipped among senior political sources to play a leading role in the new Security Council, which some portray as a powerful parallel administration whose creation could sidestep deadlock among Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds on forming a unity government.

Some Shi'ite Islamists are putting up resistance to such a deal, sources said. Campaigning against Allawi's cross-sectarian list in December, the Islamist Alliance compared the secular Shi'ite to Saddam Hussein, accusing him of dictatorial leanings . . .

full report: http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-03-24T144629Z_01_L17519334_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ.xml



Meanwhile the U.S. ambassador is busy today pressuring the Iraqi ascendents to 'unify', or else, he says, they'll face more violence. Chaos or unity, as Bush put it. More meddling.

I think there's almost zero chance the violence will abate just because this propped up regime decides to 'unify', unless it could be followed by our immediate exit. Not much chance of that without much more pressure, if Bush's blabbing about leaving Iraq to future presidents is more than just an idiot's rambling.

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1. Allawi will lead nothing

Do they seriously think the UIA shi'ah are going to permit their victory at the ballot box to be usurped?

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2. This is a terrible plan.

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3. Oh, the same way the * admin just works around our laws and

constitutional rights.

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4. Uh - when did they pronounce the new Iraqi democracy dead?

I knew it was on life support, but this appears to be rev 3 of the Iraqi puppet regime. Ooops. So much for all that blue finger wagging freemon'n'moxy nonsense, we'll just have government by decree under the guidance of our proconsul Zalmay Khalilzad. Allawi back in charge.

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5. this is it, isn't it?

this is the point where they clumsily try to re-elevate their puppet.

chimp and his handlers . . . same old tricks

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6. This is a big deal

POWER GRAB SEEN IN ‘ALLAWI COUNCIL’

http://www.arabtimesonline.com/arabtimes/world/Viewdet.asp?ID=7376&cat=a

An agreement by Iraqi leaders to set up a national Security Council reflects efforts to curb the power of Shi’ite Islamists and sidestep deadlock in talks on a unity government, political sources said on Monday. The council is likely to provide a platform for former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a secular figure popular in Washington, to take a lead in trying to stop Iraq sliding into civil war and may meet before a deal is reached on a national unity cabinet. Indeed the council, whose creation was announced on Sunday, will be a powerful parallel administration, in overall control of security, the economy and all major policy decisions, reducing the influence of Shi’ite Islamists.

“The point of forming the Council was political compromise,” a senior source in the Shi’ite Alliance bloc said. “Some parties want to take decision making out of the hands of the majority.” The Alliance’s strength in parliament gives it a lock on the premiership. It is resisting pressure to drop Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and also rejects Sunni, Kurdish and US complaints about its controversial interior minister. Several sources said that Allawi, who was premier in 2004 under US control, is a prime candidate to lead the Council. “The job was created for him,” a senior political source said. “We have been discussing it for at least two months.”

President Jalal Talabani gave no details of the Council when he announced the general accord on its creation on Sunday. But sources in various parties agreed on its overall design. Allawi, a secular Shi’ite who plotted with US intelligence against Saddam Hussein during his exile in London, ordered US military assaults on both Sunni and Shi’ite rebels in 2004. Alliance leaders countered his well-funded and high-profile campaign for December’s election by accusing Allawi of trying to establish himself as a strongman in the mould of Saddam. His Iraqi List bloc has 25 of parliament’s 275 seats.

Allawi said on Sunday that the number of Iraqis killed each day showed the country was already embroiled in a civil war. Another senior source said the head of the Council would be elected at the first meeting and chosen from its 19 members, who will include the president, prime minister and parliamentary speaker, all their deputies, and various party leaders. Powerful regional leaders like the president of autonomous Kurdistan would also have a seat, the sources said. It was not clear when the Council would first meet. When it does, it will also define its own rules of operation.

full report: http://www.arabtimesonline.com/arabtimes/world/Viewdet.asp?ID=7376&cat=a

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7. has this been mentioned in the news today?

I wonder why not?

The Bush administration is setting their puppet in a position of power that they just created out of the blue sky. It's no coincidence that it's justification is contained in the name, 'National Security' council. That's the same ploy the Bush regime uses here at home when they want to put a new subversion of democracy past us. That's what the Allawi post is designed to do. Subvert the vote that they so thoroughly celebrated to allow the Sunnis a false representation from Allawi. I can't imagine that the Sunnis would choose the man who worked so hard to put their allies out of power in Iraq as their savior now.

This is Bush democracy. Installed and backed up by the justification of their military force. 'National Security'. Trust the people. Chaos or unity.

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9. A former car bomber would be a logical pick for Iraq's Security Council

Makes complete sense.

Don