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...Finally, there is a shred of hope that the imminent arrival of an independent, majority-Shi'ite government will create a new dynamic within Iraq. The Sunni insurgency remains the dominant fact of life, of course, but significant Sunni groups like the Association of Muslim Scholars have hinted they may cooperate on a new constitution...
...running in the election, the United Iraqi Alliance (U.I.A.), is a grab bag of parties that have little in common apart from a desire for power and a deep-seated distrust of U.S. motives. Backed by Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, the supreme religious leader of Iraq's Shi'ite majority, the U.I.A. includes the country's strongest Shi'ite parties, among them the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (S.C.I.R.I.) and the Dawa Party, which have close links to Iran. It also includes such wild cards as former Pentagon favorite Ahmad Chalabi as well as representatives of Muqtada...
...absence of reliable nationwide opinion polls, predicting a victor in the Jan. 30 election is a fool's game. Even if the Shi'ite slate lives up to claims by its leaders that it has the backing of 60% of the country, it's hard to know who would emerge as the candidate for Prime Minister...
Leaders of the Shi'ites and the Kurds, who together make up 80% of the population and are likely to be disproportionately represented in the new Assembly, have promised to include Sunnis in the government. Ensuring Sunni participation is crucial to the Assembly's most important task: writing a new Iraqi constitution, which must be drafted by Aug. 15 and put to a nationwide referendum by Oct. 15. Sunnis in and outside Iraq fret that a Shi'ite-dominated Assembly might produce fears of an Iranian-style Shi'ite theocracy taking root in Baghdad. But Iraqi Shi'ite leaders have...
...just the insurgents who would like to see the U.S. go. "The best way to please the masses, to gain legitimacy and credibility," says al-Dulame, "is to slap down the Americans in a very public way." Many of the leaders on the Shi'ite slate say a summary eviction of the U.S. would not serve the new government's interests, since Iraqi security forces are in no position to pick up the slack. "When the Americans go will depend on when our own forces are ready and on how the resistance responds after the elections," says al-Mahdi. Still...