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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47726)	2/1/2005 4:58:57 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Exit polls favour a grand Kurdish/Shiite-Sistani backed government. As far as this Sunni relegation to sidelines is concerned it should be noted that Iraqi nationalism is more important to Shiites of Iraq firstly and Kurds are Sunnis, the descendents of Saladin the great warrior of Islam who was instrumental in removing the Shiite caliph of Cairo under order of Nurudin, Iraqi nationalism more than the few voices of ‘Sunni disgruntled ex baathists’ shall help cement Iraqi nation, it is going to be a long way, federations all over have splintered, from USSR to Yugoslavia one can see that, but an experiment where economic and geo strategic realties dictate a nation like Iraq to exist may help Iraq survive these testing times. Sistani the grand Ayotallah needs freedom from influence of Qom activism, for him a united Iraq guarantees a shift of Shiite theological centre from Qom to Nejd its traditional hereditary headquarters. Ideological Puritanism in defining the seat of shiism for Sistani is more important than putting 20 percent Sunnis of the north under its theological Shiite state, that he knows will be a preamble for disaster and will ensure loss of northern oil fields as well as instability to regions around middle Shiite communities of Iraq, he knows it is important that all three constituents remain together and he will warrant like he ensured mass participation in elections that government may be tolerant, secular and broad based with enough Sunni representation, it is exactly the fears after Afghans fall that northern alliance will dominate majority Pushtun that never happened, Karzai is a Pushtun and runs a government that has representation from all sectors of Afghanis mosaic.