Word: mutlaq
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...capital, Rice met with five prominent Sunnis of different political leanings: Deputy President Ghazi al-Yawar, whose base is among tribal leaders; Deputy Prime Minister Abd Mutlaq al-Juburi, a former Baathist general under Saddam; Ala Makki, a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Iraqi Islamic party, the largest Sunni political group; Dr. Hatem al-Mukhlis, a secular New York-based doctor and ally of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi; and Sheikh Adnan al-Janabi, a secularist tribal leader and expert on petroleum...
...will be very difficult to convince people to come back to the political process," said Saleh Mutlaq, a member of the National Dialogue Council, a Sunni group that strongly opposed the constitution. "People will be disappointed that their voices mean nothing." That will be bad for Iraq, "and for the people occupying it," he added ominously...
...Mosul doesn't make any sense," said Mutlaq...
...December. This was enough to win over the Iraqi Islamic Party, one of the largest Sunni political parties, but it left groups such as the Muslim Clerics' Association and the National Dialogue council fuming at the Islamic Party's reversal. "This is bad for the Iraqis," said Saleh Mutlaq, an influential member of the National Dialogue Council, which includes many former Ba'athists. The move by the Islamic Party is a "betrayal" of all the Sunnis, he said, and hinted that the Dialogue Council would consider excluding them from its fractious coalition of Sunni Arabs when they...
...Sunni Arabs make up barely a fifth of Iraq's population but were the dominant political class until the fall of Saddam Hussein. The majority of Sunnis sat out the Jan 30 general election, but leaders like Mutlaq were persuaded in the summer to join a committee to draft the constitution. The U.S. believes that drawing the Sunnis into the political process is the key condition for defeating the insurgency. But even those Sunnis that entered the process have rejected the draft charter, citing several controversial clauses. Their main bone of contention is federalism: while Shiite and Kurdish parties favor...