Word: jaafari
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...tout the flowering of democracy in Saddam Hussein's former dictatorship. But not all the fruits of Iraqi democracy are to Washington's taste - the Bush Administration has reportedly told the Shi'ite bloc that dominates Iraq's elected legislature that President Bush opposes its nomination of Ibrahim al-Jaafari to a second term as Prime Minister...
...future of Iraq with Iran, which retains significant influence over the main Shi'ite parties. Now it appears Washington has also reached out to Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani - Iraq's leading Shi'ite clerical authority and the country's most influential figure - for support in its effort to block Jaafari, though? Sistani has consistently refused, since the fall of Saddam, to meet with U.S. officials...
...notice that the politicians seem to be back-tracking even on things that they had more or less agreed upon. For instance, this effort to unseat Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. Before Samarra, it seemed the parties had come to the general acceptance that he was going to remain Prime Minister in the new government. Now there seems to be a strong effort to dislodge him, and that really angers the Shi'ite bloc...
...nomination of the biggest bloc, the UIA. It was 64 votes for him out of 130 and 63 for Adel Abdul Mehdi. And there was a discussion among the other elements about their response to this nomination. There were some issues with regard to the response of [Jaafari's] government immediately in the aftermath of Samarra, where some people thought that a curfew should have been imposed immediately while the government took more than a day-and-a-half to make that decision. And there is the issue of the visit to Turkey that also has been a very [upsetting...
...that Khalilzad presided over. "Sometimes meetings went on until 3 or 4 in the morning," he says as his SUV roars to his next appointment. "That may be what's required to get this job done at a faster pace." A major impediment is the current Prime Minister. Al-Jaafari is clinging to control despite widespread dissatisfaction with his tenure. But Khalilzad is not about to tell him to quit--that, he says, would be interfering in Iraq's politics. "We used to make those decisions--run the place," he says. "But now [the Iraqis] have to take responsibility...