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Badr and Sadr – Together Again

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Three of Iraq’s most powerful Shiite Muslim religious parties on Thursday formed a reshuffled alliance to field a slate in December’s legislative elections, raising the prospect that balloting will once more break along ethnic and sectarian lines. The agreement was reached after the Shiite alliance reportedly had been on the verge of splintering in recent days. The two parties that control Iraq’s transitional government — Dawa, led by Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari, and the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq — will now work with political affiliates of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr.

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