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...Earlier this week, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the head of the largest Shiite party SCIRI, officially called for the creation of a Shi'ite region in the south after meeting with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. What effect will this have on the process...
...will surely complicate things and possibly split the Sistani-backed United Iraqi Alliance. Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari's Dawa party, SCIRI's alliance partner, has opposed creating a Shi'ite region in the south. There is suspicion that Iran is behind Hakim's call because of fears that Iraq, under the new constitution, will have a weaker central government than it has now, meaning any Iranian influence via Baghdad will be curtailed as well. The proposal alarms the Americans, who never anticipated the emergence of an Iranian-influenced southern region. Iranian influence is widely perceived as one of the greatest...
...There are people who you can say, ‘I played with Hakim Warrick’ and it means nothing to them,” Frank says, grinning. “Which is a shame...
Lest you belong to the unlucky few, let’s just say that Hakim Warrick is, with apologies to Ron Burgundy, kind of a big deal. In sports fan circles, at least, the immensely talented Syracuse forward belongs to the pantheon of Household Names...
...Such security issues may pose some of the trickiest challenges for the new government. Key leaders of the UIA, such as Abdelaziz Hakim of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, have made clear they want to conduct a wholesale purge of the security forces to weed out former Baathists. But in the past year Prime Minister Allawi has quietly reversed the U.S. policy of ?de-Baathificiation,? which he viewed as dangerous mistakes. A renewed push to purge former Baathists could create further tensions that would play into the hands of the insurgency...