Thursday, April 26, 2007
Allawi meets with al-Sadr to convince him to join Iraq National Front
Politics
(Al Watan) - Former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi reportedly met with radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr recently in the holy city of Al-Najaf, the Saudi daily "Al-Watan" reported on April 22. An informed source said one of the aims of the meeting was to convince al-Sadr's political movement to join Allawi's newly announced political bloc, the Iraq National Front.
"The meeting dealt with the ongoing political process in Iraq after the withdrawal of the al-Sadr trend from Nuri al-Maliki's government, as well as other issues pertaining to improving the security situation and the future of the situation in Iraq. They also discussed the possibility of coordinating positions between the al-Sadr trend and the [new] Iraqi bloc," the source said. In March, Allawi announced that he was moving to form a new broad-based political bloc, in an effort to form a new national-unity government.
Labels: Iraq National Front, Iyad Allawi, Moqtada Al-Sadr, Najaf
