Tuesday, December 05, 2006
MPs: National salvation front nothing new
Politics
A number of Iraqi legislators said the proposal tabled by Dr. Saleh al-Motlak, the head of the National Dialogue Front (NDF), about forming a national salvation front in Iraq, was not new, and existed since the period that followed the December 2005 elections. Motlak, an Iraqi Sunni politician, had said on Sunday that a national salvation front would soon be declared in Iraq that includes a number of political and religious figures. Legislator Omar Abdul-Sattar, of the Sunni Iraqi Accordance Front, said "there has always been a nucleus for a national Iraqi project to overcome sectarianism, this malicious sedition. With the beginning of the Iraqi parliament's second legislative term in September 2006, the project has received the kiss of life," said Mr. Abdul-Sattar. Mr. Zhafir al-Saadi, a member of the Sadrist bloc in parliament, said "some blocs have proposed to us the idea of forming a front, and we are still studying the proposal. We are still part of the Unified Iraqi Coalition, and we would join any group that serves Iraq's interests," added Saadi.
Motlak had said "in addition to the NDF, the front would include Iyad Allawi’s National Iraqi Slate, Mesha’an al-Jubouri’s Reconciliation and Liberation Front and the Sadr Movement. "Motlak earlier said that other parties and movements from outside the political process would also join in the new front. “These include the Iraqi Institutional Conference headed by the moderate Shiite Jawad al-Khalisi, tribal sides from southern and central Iraq, representatives of the Yezidis, Turkmen, anti-secessionist Kurdish movements, Christian blocs and the pan-Arab Shiite movement,” he added.
