Saturday, March 10, 2007

Kurds Open to Coalition with Allawi, Fadhila

This would have huge ramifications...

Al-Hayat is reporting that Iraqi Kurds are considering abandoning their alliance with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s Shia-dominated coalition and instead forming a new coalition led by former prime minister Iyad Allawi’s Iraqi List and recently including the Shia Fadhila Party (“Inclusion of the Kurds in Allawi’s Coalition Depends on Its Success”).

Prominent Kurdish leader Mahmud Uthman told news agencies that the Kurds were interested “if it is confirmed that the coalition that Iyad Allawi is trying to form can bring together diverse parties capable of bringing about change in Iraq.” The article also noted that there was speculation that the new coalition was being supported by the United States, as U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and Allawi together visited Kurdistan recently just as Fadhila was withdrawing from the United Iraqi Alliance.

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