Word: hakim
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...suggested the crisis had passed because Iraq's elected leaders had decided to work together to avoid a civil war. Khalilzad has been working behind the scenes to coax the main Sunni parliamentary parties back to the negotiating table and to tamp down the belligerence of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), the largest party in the Shi'ite alliance...
...regional power. But we are a noble regional force. Iraq is a Muslim neighboring country. We are natural allies. Stability, democracy and security in Iraq are definitely in our interest, too. When the Americans supported Saddam, all the present leaders were our guests, including Talabani, Barzani, Jafari, Hakim, and all those. The reason for our friendship now is that it goes back many years...
...August: Four months after the fall of Saddam Hussein, a car bomb kills leading Shi'ite politician Ayatullah Mohammed Bakir al-Hakim and 90 others near Najaf's Tomb...
...negotiations will be a bright-line test: Who will control the Interior Ministry, now in the hands of Shi'ite religious extremists with close ties to Iran, who have murdered and tortured thousands of Sunnis? Even the Shi'ite leadership-in the person of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (sciri)-has acknowledged the excesses. "We call upon our faithful security forces," al-Hakim said last week, "to continue strongly confronting terrorists but with more consideration to human rights...
...that "the day began quietly, because people are cautious about coming out. They are waiting and watching their TVs, for news of any violence or disturbance. Once they hear that voting is going normally, they will come out." He said that at his polling station, the Muhammad Baqr al-Hakim Boys' High School, there was actually less security this time than on Jan 30. One reason, he said, is that "the Iraqi security forces have learned from the [previous] elections, and are now more strategically positioned--they don't all crowd around one spot." Another lesson from...