Allawi called to broker Sadr cease-fire

[maddezmom]

Source: UPI

BAGHDAD, April 21 (UPI) -- Former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Monday members of the Sadrist Movement appealed to him to negotiate a cease-fire with U.S. troops in Sadr City.

Allawi made his comments at a news conference Monday with Fattah al-Sheikh of the Sadrist Movement and members of the Shiite Fadhila party in Baghdad.

Allawi said Sadrist lawmakers called on him to intervene Saturday to mediate a cease-fire with the U.S. military and to seek a halt to the construction of a wall around Sadr City, Voices of Iraq reported.

The former prime minister suggested he held various talks with U.S. officials, but declined to provide further details.



Read more: http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Briefing/2008/04/21/allawi_called_to_broker_sadr_cease-fire/1064/

[slingsam]

1. Would you say

that, that...is surrender? By the Sadrists?

If you buy........the propaganda?

[maddezmom]

2. I would say that Allawi is looking to get back into power

[badgervan]

3. Just Great

The biggest liar of 'em all, Allawi... the guy who lied us into Iraq as much as any one person could.... gets to be the "broker"?! Iraqis don't trust or like the guy! He's a U.S. stooge who plays both sides as needed to advance his own interests!

[maddezmom]

4. I think Chalabi was as bad

[badgervan]

5. You're Right....

they're two of a kind.

[PufPuf23]

6. Barbour Rogers & Griffith GOP K Street and Allawi

The $300,000 paid BRG was for 6 months.


Allawi Uses Loophole to Keep Backers Secret

By Spencer Ackerman - September 5, 2007, 6:03PM

It's official: Ayad Allawi is no longer represented by Barbour Griffith & Rogers, the White House-connected lobbying firm he retained to sell the U.S. government on his "parliamentary coup" to become Iraq's next prime minister. Well, sort of.

Allawi doesn't want to disclose who's paying BGR's $300,000 fee. But since Allawi admitted on CNN that he's not paying the bill himself, BGR has to either disclose to the Justice Department which "agent of a foreign principal" it receives money from or violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Disclosure, however, is for amateurs.

Yesterday, BGR took an anticipated third option: changing its filing with DoJ so that BGR no longer represents Allawi, but rather his political party, the Iraqi National Accord. Christina Davidson reports for IraqSlogger (sub. req.) that since political parties aren't required to disclose their sources of funding under FARA, "BGR has managed to pull an easy sidestep in order to maintain the anonymity of Allawi's backer."

more at:

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/004080.php