Desperate Allawi Now Claims Assassination Plots, not many Buyers…..
“Former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, who is vying to once again lead his nation, on Sunday accused unnamed figures in the current government of being involved in a plot to kill him. Allawi, whose Iraqiya bloc won the largest share of parliamentary seats in March elections that have still not produced a new government, did not name the alleged culprits but provided an April 29 letter from the U.S. military to back up his contention that his life was in danger. "People in the government are definitely involved," Allawi said in an interview. "We know a lot of people want this country to suffer and they want to destabilize this country. I'm sure of that and probably they feel that my presence poses an obstacle to their designs on this country, and this leads them to the fact that they want to kill me." He emphasized that he did not think Prime Minister Nouri Maliki was involved…….”
This Allawi is beginning to sound really silly, it is getting real silly. In the past months, Allawi has approached his friends in the Saudi media (asharq alawsat, alarabiya) several times, and they obligingly headlined this nonsense about an assassination attempt, or plot. Trying to get international coverage for it. Now the LA Times has finally bitten. Allawi is in no danger: with only 91 seats he has no chance of becoming prime minister of Iraq against the new alliance (159 seats). He is trying to build a movement in the WEST to get him the job, after his public pleas to Washington failed.
He still won't be prime minister, not of my fatwa remains valid and binding.
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