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Sunnis bring negative claim
against new Iraqi leadership
The Iraqi prime minister predicts insurgents will be
defeated within months; politicians reach out to Sunnis
BY ROBERT H. REID
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq’s interim
prime minister declared Wednesday
that the success of the national elec
tions had dealt a major blow to the
insurgents — who have not carried
out a major attack since the balloting
— and he predicted they will be de
feated within months.
But a major Sunni clerical group
declared that Sunday’s elections
“lack legitimacy” because many Sun
ni Arabs did not participate, saying
the new government would have no
mandate to guide the nation’s future.
The declaration suggested that prob
lems remain in reconciling with the
Sunni Arabs, who comprise about
20 percent of Iraq’s 26 million people
but form the core of the insurgency.
Nevertheless, both Prime Minister
Ayad Allawi and his major Shiite
Muslim rivals reached but to the Sun
nis, promising them a major role in
drafting the new constitution even
though many shunned the ballot —
either out of fear of rebel attack or op
position to the electoral process.
“Definitely the Sunni Muslims will
take part in the government and will
have a role in the drafting of constitu
tion,” Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, head of
the main Shiite political faction, told
The Associated Press.
Allawi, a secular Shiite backed by
the Americans, told Iraqi television
that the elections, which drew large
turnouts except in Sunni insurgent
strongholds, constituted a “major
blow to all forces of terrorism.”
He noted that attacks by Sunni in
surgents had fallen dramatically
since the elections, but it was un
clear whether the drop was the start
of a trend. Insurgent activity also
slowed after the transfer of sover
eignty to the Iraqis in June but
picked up weeks later.
“They might be reorganizing them
selves and changing their plans,”
Allawi said of the insurgents. “The
coming days and weeks will show
whether this trend will continue ...
But the final outcome will be failure.
They will continue for months but
this (insurgency) will end.”
Following the election, U.S. military
planners hope to shift from offensive
operations against the insurgents to
training Iraqi forces to do the job. Still,
U.S. troops are continuing offensive
operations, arresting four suspected
rebels in northern Iraq and killing a
suspected member of an al-Qaida
linked group northwest of Baghdad,
the U.S. command said Wednesday.
Three days after the balloting, the
Iraqi election commission has still
not released any results or turnout
figures, promising them within a
week. Political sources say the ticket
endorsed by the Shiite clergy was ex
pected to win the largest share of the
275 National Assembly seats. Tickets
led by Kurdish politicians and by
Allawi also were running strong.
Al-Hakim, the head of the Shiite
ticket, suggested Wednesday that his
group would insist on the prime min
ister’s post, saying his faction had
several qualified candidates. That
could mean Allawi might lose his job
in the new administration if the Shiite
ticket ends up with more than half
the Assembly seats.
Still, the new government’s ability
to reconcile with disaffected elements
in the Sunni community is consid
ered the key to stability and to en
abling the 170,000 mostly American
foreign troops to leave.
In its first official statement since
the ballot, the Sunni clerical Associa
tion of Muslim Scholars, which had
called for an election boycott, said
the new government would lack le
gitimacy because many Sunnis
stayed home on election day.
The association said the new
government would lack the man
date to draft a new constitution —
one of the major duties of the new
National Assembly.
“We cannot participate in the
drafting of a constitution written
under military occupation,” said
association spokesman, Mohammed
Bashar al-Feidhi.
Despite statements by Sunni hard
liners, Allawi met with leaders of the
16 major political factions to discuss
plans for the new government. The
group included two of the leading
Sunni politicians — President Ghazi
al-Yawer and elder statesman Adnan
Pachachi — and Finance Minister
Adel Abdul Mahdi, a Shiite men
tioned as a possible prime minister.
Allawi said he would meet Thurs
day with representatives of groups
that did not take part in the elections,
but names of the participants were
not released.
Iraqi politicians were relieved the
elections went off without major vio
lence, despite rebel threats to “wash
the streets in blood.” More than
40 people were killed in eight suicide
bombings and about 100 attacks on
polling stations.
U.S. and Iraqi officials attributed
the success to a massive security op
eration, which included tens of thou
sands of soldiers and police on the
streets, a ban on most private vehi
cles, closing the borders and extend
ed curfew hours. Those measures
have since been relaxed.
Encouraged by the election suc
cess, the police chief in the city of
Mosul, Gen. Mohammed Ahmed al
Jubouri, gave insurgents two weeks
to hand in their weapons or he would
“wipe out any village” that gave
them shelter.
Mosul has been tense since insur
gents rose up in November in support
of militants under siege in Fallujah,
west of Baghdad. The entire 5,000
member police force deserted before
U.S. and Iraqi troops regained control.
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