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re:[casi] Iraqi opposition delegation in Baghdad...,



Dear all

In part reply to IRAQI's query as to who the 'Iraqi National Alliance' might
be here is an article from The Radio Free Europe Iraq Report,
http://www.rferl.org/iraq-report/2002/10/35-251002.html >. For another
article on the same subject see, in the News mailings, News, 19-25/10/02
(1), 'Al-Rikabi might preside over an Iraqi government; Baghdad negotiate
with oppositions abroad', from
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/021024/2002102416.html.

The Democratic Accord Group, which is mentioned below, is referred to in
another Free Radio Europe article,
www.rferl.org/iraq-report/2001/04/12-130401.html (13 April 2001) when they
were not invited to a broadly pro-US meeting of the Free Iraqi Council in
London.

Peter


HUSSEYN ASKS OPPOSITION TO RETURN, JOIN GOVERNMENT. Iraqi President Saddam
Husseyn extended an invitation to several opposition figures to return to
Iraq and join in the formation of a new "national coalition" government,
according to a 23 October report in the Jordanian newspaper "Al-Arab
al-Yawm."

A leftist Iraqi writer and politician, Abd-al-Amir al-Rikabi told the
newspaper that Iraqi officials contacted him and a number of other
opposition figures before the 15 October referendum in which Iraqis
unanimously voted to keep Husseyn in office for another seven years. The
interview came amid reports that Iraqi officials Nizar Hamdun and
Abd-al-Razzaq al-Hashimi asked al-Rikabi to head a national coalition
government. Al-Rikabi told "Al-Arab al-Yawm" that negotiations are under way
"within the framework of attempts to reach a coalition formula, which will
rebuild the Iraqi nationalist forces' alliance in the face of U.S. threats
against Iraq. These negotiations also aim at forming national unity
government, the basic function of which will be moving towards democracy in
Iraq." Al-Rikabi currently lives in France.

"Al-Arab al-Yawm" reported that among those contacted by the Iraqi
government were the former leader of the Syrian branch of the Ba'ath Party,
Abd-al-Jabbar al-Kubaysi; Baqir Ibrahim, former member of the political
bureau of the Iraqi Communist Party; Salah Umar al-Ali, former member of the
Regional Command of the Ba'ath Party and head of the opposition Democratic
Accord Group; and Awni al-Qalamji, a Nasirite leader.



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From: "IRAQI" <baghdad@easy.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 07:40:22 +0000
To: casi-discuss@lists.casi.org.uk
Subject: re:[casi] Iraqi opposition delegation in Baghdad...,

Dear Hassan,

About the "Iraqi National Alliance" you
mentioned. I was wondering if you have any
further information about it, like when was it
founded? and where? an alliance of what? do they
have a newspaper? a website? or even a yahoo
group? have they held any conferences?
Please tell us!

ahmed


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