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Iraq
Iraqs Shiites create new alliance for election
2009-08-25
" I wish that our brothers in the Dawa party would be among us today and God willing, efforts will continue to include everyone, with Dawa at the top of the list "
Iraqi Vice President and ISCI member Adel Abdul-Mehdi
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iraq's leading Shiite coalition, the biggest group in parliament, announced a new alliance on Monday for January's general election, while Abdel Aziz al-Hakim's son announced that the country's Shiite leader has been admitted to a Tehran hospital.

The grouping includes members of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC), supporters of radical anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, as well as a large number of independent candidates.

The new Iraqi National Alliance will replace the United Iraqi Alliance, which was created for the 2005 election and which once consisted of all Shiite parties.

No reason was given publicly for the exclusion of Maliki's Dawa party but the increasingly assertive prime minister had demanded a greater say in the alliance and also insisted the coalition be broadened to include more Sunnis and Kurds. "I wish that our brothers in the Dawa party would be among us today and God willing, efforts will continue to include everyone, with Dawa at the top of the list," Iraqi Vice President and ISCI member Adel Abdul-Mehdi told reporters.
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