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To: redfish who wrote (8004)	2/22/2005 1:41:11 PM
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To: redfish who wrote (8004)	2/22/2005 1:42:46 PM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361333

Shiites Name Jafari as PM Candidate Ahmed Chalabi Drops Bid for Prime Minister By Jackie Spinner, Anthony Shadid and Fred Barbash Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, February 22, 2005; 10:17 AM BAGHDAD, Feb. 22 -- Iraq's majority Shiite coalition has chosen Ibrahim Jafari, Iraq's interim vice president, to be its candidate for the powerful post of prime minister of Iraq. The coalition's decision, while not the last word, is crucially important. The United Iraqi Alliance holds 140 of the new assembly's 275 seats following the country's Jan. 30 election and has the tacit support of the country's most influential religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. Interim Iraqi Vice President Ibrahim Jafari was chosen Tuesday to be his Shiite ticket's candidate for prime minister. Ahmed Chalabi, a former U.S. ally and the head of the Iraqi National Congress, who was still in the running for the post, withdrew from the race Tuesday apparently after seeing he had no chance of winning the Shiite alliance's support. "There are no problems," he said in an interview. "And the choice is democratic." Jafari still faces a possible challenge from Ayad Allawi, the interim prime minister, whose coalition garnered 14 percent of the vote and 40 seats. The Shiite group must also deal with a Kurdish alliance led by Jalal Talabani that holds 75 seats. The Kurdish alliance wants Talabani for the largely symbolic post of president. While its leaders do not like Jafari as a choice for prime minister, they might support him and not press the issue if the Shiites support Talabani's presidency. The final choice will be made in the National Assembly. Jafari is a soft-spoken physician and former exile who leads the Dawa party. He emerged as a surprise front-runner earlier this month. He returned from exile in London after the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. His party has long advocated a religious government. But in a recent interview with The Washington Post, he said Dawa had tempered that desire to accommodate secular and non-Muslim Iraqis. Jafari said Dawa did not "aim to establish an Islamic state to apply the Islamic sharia," or law. Instead, it would establish a government "respecting human rights and applying justice and respecting the rights of women." Jafari also said that his new government would include all ethnic parties, including Sunnis who boycotted the election. "Every country has its own character," he said. "Not all Iraqis are Muslims. Not all Muslims are Shia. Not all Shia are Islamic. We have to have a system that is open to all components of society." He has been less conciliatory about the issue of dealing with former Baath Party members, estimated to number between 1 million and 2.5 million. Jafari fled Iraq after former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein carried out a purge that executed thousands of Dawa members and their families. When Hussein fell, the U.S. administrator, L. Paul Bremer, dismissed the Iraqi army and all civil servants above the bottom rung of Hussein's Baath Party. But Allawi and others argue that Bremer's move crippled Iraq's government and security systems; Allawi has been rehiring Baathists during his eight months in office. Jafari said that "the new appointments and those who were dismissed will be looked over" on the same basis: Those who committed crimes would be barred, those who did not would be allowed to keep their jobs. Under Iraq's interim constitution, the parliament is supposed to choose a president and two deputy presidents who will, in turn, choose a prime minister. That choice must be unanimous. A cabinet will follow, which will be approved by the presidency council. Fred Barbash reported from Washington.