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February 22, 2006
Iraq's Prime Minister Ibrahim Al Jaafari Dismisses U.S. Warning
Topics: IraqYesterday we posted that the U.S. ambassador delivered a blunt warning to Iraqi leaders yesterday that they risk losing American support unless they establish a national unity government with the police and the army out of the hands of religious parties. Iraq's Prime Minister Ibrahim Al Jaafari has already responded by angrily dismissing US warnings to shun sectarianism in the country's new government, saying Iraqis would not accept interference in their affairs:
Speaking after talks with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who echoed the US call for a government of national unity in Iraq, the normally calm and diplomatic Al Jaafari said Iraq knew its own best interests.So what can we expect from the "angry" Prime Minister Ibrahim Al Jaafari? In the way of finding out I checked on what the Islamist apologist and anti-American oft-discredited University of Michigan Professor Juan Cole had to say about him, figuring that from Cole we'd get a "best case" scenario:"When someone asks us whether we want a sectarian government the answer is 'no we do not want a sectarian government' - not because the US ambassador says so or issues a warning," he told a news conference.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about what Jaafari stands for now?In other words, as Al Jaafari clearly said in his "angry response." there's not much of a chance that the Iran-leaning Shi'ite Al Jaafari is going to do much in the establishing a national unity government with the police and the army out of the hands of religious parties. He's going to make it as close to a Shi'ite Islamic State as possible, and one that is so snuggled up to Iran that it might as well be called "Iraqiran."JUAN COLE: Well, Jaafari is an old-time Muslim fundamentalist. He will want as much Islamic law to be implemented in Iraq as possible. The Dawa tends to view civil law in Iraq as a British colonial heritage so they want to get rid of it. And he was part of a group that attempted to implement Islamic law, even when there was an American administration. So, they would like, you know, personal status, marriage, divorce, alimony, inheritance, all those things to be governed by Islamic law.
AMY GOODMAN: What about the whole competition with Ahmed Chalabi. Did he ever have a chance? And where does he stand now? Some are saying he might be the deputy.
JUAN COLE: Oh, no. I would be surprised if Chalabi were given a very high post. He might get a cabinet post. He had some support, Chalabi did, among the United Iraqi Alliance group which was the Shiite and more fundamentalist parties, although it was a big tent and some secular groups like Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress were in it. It has been reported by AP that some of the women in the list -- about a third of the list are women -- were a little afraid of Jaafari's Islamism and that they were -- they were the ones who were supporting Chalabi. So I think Chalabi will get something, but I don't expect him to have any kind of executive post.
Time for plan B in Iraq!
Posted by Richard at February 22, 2006 1:28 AM
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