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To: LindyBill who wrote (89943)	12/9/2004 5:21:37 PM
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Platform of Shiite Coalition Calls for U.S. to Start Withdrawing By Marc Schulman on Iraq From the New York Times: Iraq's leading Shiite political groups formally announced today that they had formed an alliance to run in the national elections, saying their 23-point political platform included a call to start negotiations for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. Members of the group who spoke at the news conference today included Ahmad Chalabi, the former exile and onetime Pentagon favorite; Hussein al-Shahristani, a nuclear scientist who was imprisoned by Saddam Hussein; and members of two important groups within the alliance, the Islamic Dawa Party and the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, known as Sciri. Beyond a comment by Mr. Shahristani that the alliance's platform included a call to start talks on an American military pullout, members of the group offered little in the way of details on the other 22 points in their declaration of principles. The platform's main elements, Mr. Shahristani said, are sovereignty, unity and respect for Iraq's Islamic identity. "We may disagree on the details but we agree on the headlines," he said.