'Sami Askari, a member of Maliki's inner circle and his State of Law election slate, described the electoral commission as a U.N. puppet. He also accused the CIA and elements of the State Department of working to bring Allawi, who has ties to the U.S. intelligence community, back to power.
"The Americans told me six months ago that the CIA and State Department are working on bringing back Allawi," Askari said. "Within State of Law, many believe this."
Askari referred repeatedly to a plot to bring down Maliki's coalition and install Allawi's slate, which includes figures associated with the late dictator Saddam Hussein's Sunni Arab-dominated regime. Askari said if there was no recount, many Shiites would refuse to support a central government that they feared heralded the resurrection of Hussein's Baath Party, which tormented the Shiite majority for 35 years before being toppled in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.'
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I've never seen such incessant conspiracy theorists as you Iraqis. The endless plots make for great reading and discussion as long as they're not taken too seriously in the end.
How's this one. Maybe if Allawi wins it's because more Iraqis voted for him.
" Maybe if Allawi wins it's because more Iraqis voted for him. "
Hopefully that's true! I hope there has been no fraud. This post is a quote from the LA Times, which quotes Sami Askari, one of Maliki's inner circle.
It's true that Iraqis are quite the conspiracy theorists. Arabs in general are this way. Many Arabs still believe that Americans caused all those bombings of markets and public places in Iraq. But it would not surprise me if the US govt helped Allawi somehow.
How can the electoral commission be a UN puppet? The seven voting board members and chief electoral officer are Iraqi. Only the ninth member,the "outside expert" is appointed by the UN.
Maliki and Chalabi had 500 secular candidates banned from office and still got beat by Allawi. Sucks to be them.
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