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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49336)	10/26/2005 6:43:51 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Iraq's top Shiite cleric has decided to withhold his endorsement of a Shiite coalition that swept last January's general election, rejecting repeated pleas by senior politicians for him to reconsider, associates on both sides said Wednesday. The move by the Iranian-born Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani reflected the cleric's disappointment with the performance of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's Shiite-led government, according to three associates of the cleric who are in regular contact with him. They spoke on condition of anonymity because al-Sistani's closest allies are not permitted to talk to media on the ayatollah's positions. Their comments represent the first known rift between the prominent ayatollah and the Shiite political parties he has supported since the ouster of Saddam Hussein in 2003. A senior official of al-Jaafari's Dawa party, Ali al-Adeeb, confirmed that al-Sistani had not "yet" agreed to endorse the Shiite alliance.