Allawi Threatens Civil War, Shimon Perez of Iraq……….
“The candidates were disqualified on election eve by a commission empowered to ban government officials perceived to be loyal to Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath Party. Most of the 55 disqualified candidates belonged to the Iraqiya list of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, which appeared to have drawn strong support from secular and Sunni communities in Sunday's election, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. Annulling votes for the banned candidates could lead the Iraqiya coalition to allege vote-rigging by rival politicians, including some in the Shiite-led camp of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Allawi told The Post Tuesday. "It will be a very violent reaction," said Allawi, who is a Shiite. "A lot of violence will take place, and God knows how this will end."……”
Iyad Allawi is now threatening civil war if his coalition of former and current and closet Baathists is not given power after losing the election. I still stick by my last fatwa: that he will never become prime minister of Iraq.
They keep calling him the “former prime minister”. The true title would be the former “appointed” prime minister. Allawi is like Israel’s Shimon Perez: he was never elected to the job, and was appointed to it once for a short time only. Except Perez would never threaten civil war when he lost.
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