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| | www.IRAQ.net :: Iraq's up to the minute news |
 | | Reuters - A handpicked group of U.S. troops told President George W. Bush on Thursday they believed the Iraqi people were eager to vote in a weekend referendum on an Iraqi constitution. | | | Sunnis Arabs mobilize opposition to Iraqi constitution (AFP) | | | AFP - Around 18,000 detainees in US- and Iraqi-run jails began voting on the constitution, two days before the rest of Iraq votes on a charter that has sharply divided the country along ethnic lines. |
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| | Iraqi political groupings and individuals |
| | Iraqi National Alliance (al-Tahaluf al-Watani al-Iraqi): a reformist opposition grouping in Iraq that was tolerated under the Ba‘th regime, coming to prominence in Nov02, and with Ba‘thist and Nasirist participants. | | | Participated in "Group of 4" meetings (with INA, PUK and KDP) to coordinate opposition outside the framework of the INC; and established its dominance at the London conference of December 2002, reflected in the scale of its representation on the follow-up committee. | | | National Democratic Party (al-Hizb al-Watani al-Dimuqrati): founded as a legal organisation on 2 April 1946 by Kamil al-Jadirji (Chadirchi), an Ahali-linked former minister in Hikmat Sulayman government (1936-37) who resigned in Jun37 over the lack of reforms; other founding leaders include Muhammad Hadid, a former leader of the Ahali group, and Husyan Jamil. |
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http://middleeastreference.org.uk/iraqiopposition.html
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| | Why the United States should help the Iraqi opposition |
| | The United States should help the Iraqi National Congress (INC)--an umbrella group of many different opposition groups--to establish itself as the nucleus of an Iraqi government-in-exile. | | | Why the United States should help the Iraqi opposition | | | Why the United States Should Help the Iraqi Opposition |
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http://www.heritage.org/Research/MiddleEast/em563.cfm
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| | Iraqi Dissidents - History |
| | In March 2000 a number of Iraqis and exiled Iraqis formed the INC to act as an umbrella group for the fifteen opposition groups in hope of providing a united front to bring their case to Britain, Europe, and the United States. | | | One opposition group even favored the return to a constitutional monarchy. | | | The Iraqi National Coalition (INC) offers a useful overview of the principles of their group and a historical account of Saddams rule which enumerates the reasons that this group has been seeking a government based on democratic ideals. |
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http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art19602.asp
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| | Iraqi National Congress - SourceWatch |
| | According to ABC, Rendon came up with the name for the Iraqi National Congress, an opposition coalition of 19 Iraqi and Kurdish organizations whose main tasks were to "gather information, distribute propaganda and recruit dissidents." ABC also reported that the INC received $12 million of covert CIA funding between 1992 and 1996. | | | "The Iraqi National Congress, and its most famous spokesperson Ahmad Chalabi, are entirely the creation of a media strategy company (Rendon Group) doing the bidding of the United States government." [2] (http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/092104A.shtml) | | | Another potential violation of U.S. funding laws is a non-profit group set up by individuals who held senior positions with the INC called the Iraq Liberation Action Committee. |
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Iraqi_National_Congress
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| | The Administration, Congress, and the Iraqi Opposition |
| | Iraqi National Congress: An umbrella group that has attempted to pull together Iraqi opposition factions into a loose organization that would be the basis for instituting democracy in Iraq. | | | The leadership recently met with Tariq Aziz, the Iraqi deputy prime minister, and Nazar Hamdoon, the Iraqi UN ambassador. | | | This listing might reflect the type of thinking that produced the "KLM" fiasco at the recent INS California trial of Hashim Qadir Hawlari in which the government was shown to not understand that KLM was a generic military acronym for any Kurdish liberation movement and not an acronym for a specific group. |
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http://www.fas.org/news/iraq/1998/06/980618-in.htm
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| | Iraqi political groupings and individuals |
| | Iraqi National Alliance (al-Tahaluf al-Watani al-Iraqi): a reformist opposition grouping in Iraq that was tolerated under the Ba‘th regime, coming to prominence in Nov02, and with Ba‘thist and Nasirist participants. | | | National Democratic Party (al-Hizb al-Watani al-Dimuqrati): founded as a legal organisation on 2 April 1946 by Kamil al-Jadirji (Chadirchi), an Ahali-linked former minister in Hikmat Sulayman government (1936-37) who resigned in Jun37 over the lack of reforms; other founding leaders include Muhammad Hadid, a former leader of the Ahali group, and Husyan Jamil. | | | Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP, al-Hizb al-Islami al-'Iraqi): The main Sunni Islamist party, a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. |
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http://middleeastreference.org.uk/iraqiopposition.html
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| | Assembly of Turkish American Associations |
| | The 1957 census--the sole reliable count in Iraq and the only one in which Iraqis were allowed to declare their mother tongue--placed Turkmen as the country's third-largest ethnic group, after Arabs and Kurds (8.5 percent to 21 percent of the nation as a whole). | | | "Turkmen are really overreacting," says Dr. Najmaldin Karim, president of the Washington Kurdish Institute and a leading Iraqi Kurdish voice in Washington. | | | A post-Saddam Iraqi constitution, drafted by one of the main Kurdish parties and circulated in Washington last month, designated Kirkuk as nothing less than the capital of an autonomous Kurdish federation. |
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http://www.ataa.org/spotlight/s_aug13.html
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| | Global Vision News Network |
| | Some of the main Iraqi opposition group leaders, who earlier gathered in London on Dec. 14, visited the Turkish Foreign Ministry before the last roll of the dice in neighboring Iraq. | | | Mukhlis is not in favor of the Iraqi opposition meeting in northern Iraq. | | | Turkey openly met the Supreme Court of Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and Iraqi National Congress (INC) leaders, Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy for the first time in history. |
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http://www.gvnews.net/html/Crisis/alert662.html
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| | "Iraqi National Congress Convenes Assembly in New York" (October 1999) |
| | The INC was created in 1992 as an umbrella organization representing the major Iraqi opposition groups, but many of the original participants had since broken away from it. | | | INC sources said that the Clinton Administration will soon begin supplying the group with military assistance as stipulated by the 1998 Iraq Liberation Act, which allocated $97 million dollars worth of aid to the Iraqi opposition. | | | Iraqi National Congress Convenes Assembly in New York |
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http://www.meib.org/articles/9910_me5.htm
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| | War Propaganda and the Capture of Saddam Hussein |
| | The choice of the Rendon Group to advise the Pentagon may not be a coincidence given its past work on behalf of the Iraqi opposition. | | | In all likelihood, The Rendon Group played a role in mounting the media spin for the Pentagon's "Liberation of Baghdad" disinformation campaign on April 8th, including the pulling down of the statue of Saddam on Fardhus square. | | | More generally, the Rendon group is one of the main media companies involved in bidding for the "reconstruction" of Iraq's media and information system including newspapers, TV and Radio. |
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http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO312B.html
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| | NTI: Global Security Newswire |
| | The United States has provided support for the council as an Iraqi opposition group, the State official said. | | | Six top Iraqi opposition leaders are scheduled to meet today with Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman and Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith to discuss coordinated efforts against the Hussein regime and the future of a post-Hussein Iraq (see GSN, July 29). | | | Three senior Iraqi opposition officials recently held fruitful meetings with the council leadership in Iran, bin Hussein said. |
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http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/thisweek/2002_8_9_womd.html
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| | The Observer Special reports Iraqi opposition slams plan for military governor |
| | In an interview with The Observer, Kanan Makiya, an adviser to Iraq's main opposition group, the Iraqi National Congress, said America now appeared to have dumped its commitment to bring Western-style democracy to Iraq. | | | The Iraqi opposition is also deeply suspicious of an agreement between Washington and Turkey that will see thousands of Turkish troops enter northern Iraq, ostensibly for humanitarian purposes. | | | An Iraqi opposition conference scheduled for this week has so far been delayed three times, with Washington making it clear it regards the meeting as an unhelpful distraction. |
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,896779,00.html
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| | NewsFromRussia.Com Office of Sunni Arab political party bombed |
| | Insurgents determined to derail this weekend's historic referendum bombed an office of Iraq's largest Sunni Arab political party on Friday, police said, after the group dropped its opposition to the draft constitution. | | | No one was wounded by the roadside bomb outside the Iraqi Islamic Party office in Fadhal, a district of central Baghdad. | | | Friday's roadside bomb attack against the Iraqi Islamic Party came as coalition forces closed Iraq's borders and its international airport in Baghdad in another effort to improve security to protect voters. |
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http://newsfromrussia.com/hotspots/2005/10/14/65242.html
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| | Forums - The Rendon Group Got Almost $100M From CIA |
| | Between 1991-96, The Rendon Group did "media relations" work for the Iraqi National Congress, a coalition opposition group supported at the time by the CIA. | | | Hersh also reports that CIA clandestine service veteran Linda Flohr, who had worked for the "top-secret" Iraqi Operations Group, went to work for the Rendon Group in 1994 after her retirement from the CIA. | | | The Rendon Group received close to $100-million dollars from the CIA for work it did in Iraq in the five years following the Gulf War according to reporter Seymour Hersh in a New Yorker article. |
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http://www.prwatch.org/forum/showthread.php?t=899
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| | BBC NEWS Monitoring Media reports Profile: Kurdish Islamist movement |
| | Elements who later became part of the group have also been held responsible for the assassination in February 2001 of a senior official of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Franso Hariri, and for the attempted killing of Burhan Salih, head of the PUK-led Iraqi Kurdistan regional government. | | | In 1999 the movement merged with another armed Islamic group, the Islamic Al-Nahdah (Renaissance) Movement, to form the Islamic Unity Movement in Kurdistan, but the original name of the movement was readopted after a split in 2001. | | | The group, led by Mala Ali Bapir, is based in Khormal and nearby areas near the border with Iran. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/not_in_website/syndication/monitoring/media_reports/2588623.stm
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| | Indiainfo.com -> News -> World -> Bush to help 6 Iraqi Oppn groups to oust Saddam |
| | Washington: As part of the efforts to herald a regime change in Iraq, United States President George W Bush on December 10 announced assistance to six Iraqi Opposition groups to help overthrow Saddam Hussein and establish Democracy in Iraq. | | | Certifying the six Opposition groups the Assyrian Democratic Movement, the Iraqi Free Officers and Civilians Movement, the Iraqi National Front, the Iraqi National Movement, the Iraqi Turkmen Front and the Islamic Accord of Iraq as Democratic, Bush has qualified them for assistance to help overthrow Saddam Hussien. | | | The group, which includes the Iraqi National Accord, Iraqi National Congress, Kurdistan Democratic Party, Movement for Constitutional Monarchy, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, were being given assistance in accordance with the plans "being developed by the Department of Defence and the Department of State". |
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| | Iraq INC? - Don't expect postwar miracles from the Iraqi National Congress. By Gideon Rose |
| | What they fail to appreciate are the magical powers attributed by administration hawks to the Iraqi opposition, and in particular to one opposition group known as the Iraqi National Congress. | | | Luckily for everyone but the Iraqi leader, they were overruled, and in the end the Bush administration fought the war with American and British troops instead. | | | Don't expect postwar miracles from the Iraqi National Congress. |
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http://slate.msn.com/id/2081321
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| | Iraqi opposition member wants a Monarchy in Iraq |
| | He added that there is not even one Iraqi group that wants to partition Iraq and that rumors about that issue are the fabrication and the very creation of the Iraqi intelligence in order to frighten the region and provoke the illusion of such a threat in the circles of the Iraqi opposition. | | | Iraqi opposition member wants a Monarchy in Iraq | | | Member of the Iraqi constitutional royal movement al-Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein has said that 98% of the Iraqi people want the royal system because monarchy is the best system to settle the crisis caused by the era under the Republican govenment. |
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http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/990107/1999010757.html
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| | Zionists in collusion with Iraqi National Congress--Ummah.comGeneral |
| | Jewish groups have privately met with Iraqi opposition leaders in the past, | | | prominent Iraqi opposition group that is financially supported by the U.S. government. | | | have sponsored discussions with members of the Iraqi National Congress, a |
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http://www.ummah.net/forum/showthread.php?t=9560
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| | Irak Türkmen Cephesi |
| | Iraqi Turkmens, the third biggest ethnic group in Iraq, complain of insufficient representation in political institutions in the country. | | | The 25-seat Iraqi Governing Council has only one Turkmen member. | | | Abdurrahman said the Turkmen Front had talks with members of the Iraqi Governing Council on the issue after the demonstration. |
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| | tendency to preserve the statu qui existing in Iraq seems to be in unison with the too-discrete presence of this ethnic group within the Iraqi society, since their political and (even social activities) have been almost imperceptible if not inexistent throughout the 8 decades of the existence of the state of Iraq. | | | The first proposition means that the Turkmen are already putting themselves in opposition to 5 million Kurds and more than 10 million Arabs since all Kurds and more than half of the Iraqi Arabs support the federal solution for Iraq. | | | Hence the Turkmen stance can be interpreted as a declaration of civil war against the rest of the Iraqi people. |
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http://poshtkoh.mysite.freeserve.com/Images/fugitive.html
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| | The CIA’s Secret War in Iraq |
| | It first supported the Iraqi National Congress, a popular political opposition group led by Ahmed Chalabi. | | | Both the Republican president and his Democratic successor commissioned secret plots to eliminate the Iraqi despot, and for more than six years the CIA has struggled to carry out that task. | | | He joined the Iraqi National Congress in May 1992, but was recruited a month later to work secretly for the CIA within the Accord. |
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| | Washington Business Forward - May 2002 - Government, Inc. |
| | A year later, the group was hired to help the Kuwaiti government bolster opposition to Saddam Hussein after the Iraqi invasion. | | | The Rendon Group is run by former Democratic National Committee executive director and national political director John Rendon. | | | The Rendon Group, a super-secretive firm that specializes in burnishing the image of the United States around the world, was hired in October to track news and views on the United States around the world - and it is still working on that contract. |
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| | Iraqi Turkman Front |
| | A coalition of 26 Turkman groups including: the Turkoman Shura Council, the Iraqi Turkoman National Party, the Turkomaneli, and the Independent Turkomans. | | | Has voiced concerns over a US invasion because of the chaos that would be caused in the Northern Iraq, but was subsequently invited to participate in US-coordinated opposition group meeting. | | | Iraqi Turkman Front was established in April of 1995. |
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| | Kurdistan Observer |
| | As the PUK cracked down on the Iranian and Al-Qaeda-supported Jund al-Islam in September 2001, Ali Bapir became the leader of the more moderate Islamist opposition. | | | According to the Islamic Republic News Agency on 1 June, Ahmad Torknejad, governor of Iran's Kermanshah province, called for the bolstering of Iranian-Iraqi Kurdistan trade. | | | The Kurdistan Islamic Group is the latest incarnation of 'Ali Bapir's Islamist militia and political party. |
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| | The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition |
| | A banker who left Iraq in 1958 and who heads the Iraq National Congress exile opposition group, Mr. | | | Chalabi's base are still decorated with the old red-white-and black Iraqi flag. | | | He also is upset that coalition officials, eager to stop rampant looting and general mayhem spreading across Iraq, are planning to resurrect the old Iraqi police force and some other parts of the previous bureaucracy. |
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| | Hard-Core-DX.com - Probably the best DX site in the world |
| | Voice of Iraqi Kurdistan, operated by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) | | | Voice of Rebellious Iraq - broadcasts in Arabic and supports the Iranian-sponsored Shi'i group, the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI); believed to transmit from Iran. | | | Ashur Radio - The station reportedly began operation in April 2000 and is operated by the Assyrian Democratic Movement, an opposition organization in northern Iraq. |
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http://www.hard-core-dx.com/article.php?story=20030805181215536
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| | Political Resources on the Net - Iraq |
| | Iraqi National Congress The Main Opposition Group To Saddam Hussein's Regime In Iraq | | | Indict Iraqi Regime Organisations created in 1996 for the purpose of bringing Saddam Hussein and other leading figures in the current regime in Iraq before an international tribunal to face charges of war crime |
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| | Pravda.RU The Americans are fed up with the Iraqi opposition |
| | The Iraqi opposition plays a key role there, since it is the opposition that is supposed to overthrow Hussein. | | | That decision was really made, in spite of the fact that the Iraqi opposition had a considerable support in the US Congress. | | | The goals of the Iraqi opposition included the collection of the discreditable material against Saddam. |
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