Badr Supports SIIC, both with Iraqiya against Maliki

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Badr Organization stands with the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) in rejecting the nomination of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for a second term in office, a source from the Iraqi National Alliance (INA) said on Tuesday. “The SIIC will boycott a meeting today that will be attended by the Dawlat al-Qanoon Alliance (Maliki’s party), the Sadr Movement, and the al-Fadheela Party,” Mohammed al-Bayiati told IraqiNews.com news agency. He stressed that the INA has withdrawn from the National Coalition (a group of Shiite parties) as some of this bloc’s members “admitted to local and regional pressures.” “Our dialogues with the Al-Iraqiya Alliance (Ayad Allawi’s party) is getting closer to forming the new government, after the Kurds decide their position with which side (Allawi or Maliki) they will form a coalition,” al-Bayiati added. MH (P)/SR 2