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...more Sunni and secular Iraqi National Movement, led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, is likewise in favor of a strong central government. The push for decentralization is represented by the ruling parties of the Kurdistan Regional Government and an alliance of Shi'ite parties - led by Ammar al-Hakim and chastened warlord Muqtada al-Sadr, among others - that critics claim is bent on creating a semiautonomous Shi'ite enclave in oil-rich southern Iraq...
...coalition, and the ideologically similar, but more Sunni and more secular, Iraqiya coalition, led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. Pushing for decentralization are the ruling parties of the Kurdistan Regional Government - the Kurdish enclave of northern Iraq - and an alliance of Shi'te parties led by Ammar al-Hakim, Ahmed Chalabi and Moqtada al-Sadr among others - which critics claim is bent on creating a semiautonomous Shi'ite enclave in oil-rich southern Iraq...
...formidable organization. Its predominant partners are the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq - the largest Shi'ite political party now led by Ammar al-Hakim, the son of the recently departed and revered cleric Abdulaziz al-Hakim - and the militant Moqtada al-Sadr's party, which has its pulse on the much of the country's poor and frustrated Shi'a underclass. (Read how the shoe-thrower put Maliki in a sensitive spot...
...February 2007, U.S. troops detained al-Hakim as he crossed into Iraq from Iran in a heavily armed convoy. The officials said they only had questions about his passport but allegedly blindfolded and strip-searched him. The then U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, issued an apology to al-Hakim, which he accepted...
...Voting for Ammar al-Hakim is normal because of the symbolism of his family name and the sacrifices that the family made." - SIIC lawmaker Nabil Ismail on voting for al-Hakim. (AlArabiya.net...