Tikriti to head IAF’s electoral list
BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Sunni Iraqi Accord Front (IAF) on Saturday said its electoral list for the upcoming elections will be headed by Usama al-Tikriti and will include several religious figures and parties. During a Baghdad-based press conference held by the members of the new alliance today and attended by IraqiNews.com news agency, the front said that 52 prominent figures have joined the alliance. The new list includes the following: Saleem al-Jabouri, Naseer al-Aani, Hassan Toran, Usama al-Tikriti, Iyad al-Samarraie, Kanaan Basheer, Sheikh Muqdad Abd Awwad, Ahmed Bilal al-Jabouri, Ragaa Hamdoon, al-Sheikh Hassan al-Teif al-Samarraie, Khaled Mohammed Obeid, Sheikh Mohsen Sabhan al-Khalaf, Azhar al-Samarraie, Mohammed Amin Othman, Amin Shaalan Zaban, Nadira Ali, Wessam Mahmoud al-Khazraji, Qassem Mahmoud al-Jabouri, Ibrahim Jumaa Ibrahim, Rushdie al-Aali, Aesha Ghazal, Shakir Fazaa, Jawda Bahgat, Abduljabbar Shalash, Ghaleb Nofoos al-Hamad, Sheikh Taha Ahmed al-Nueimi, Sheikh Abdullah Muhidi, Tayseer al-Mashhadani, Taleb Mokhlef al-Janabi, Mohammed Rasheed Mohammed, Ziyad al-Aani, Ahmed Raheem, Faris Abdulkareem, Matshar al-Samarraie, Amal al-Qadi, Asmaa Adnan al-Dulaimi, Anwar al-Birqirdar, Sheikh Akram Fahmi al-Janabi, Mohammed Shakir al-Ghannam and others. On Wednesday (Oct. 14), MP Hashem al-Taie from the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) said that an alliance with other political blocs will create a wide political spectrum that will help strengthen the Iraqi national identity and build a state of institutions and law. Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held on January 16, 2010. SS (S) 1