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Shiite powersharing deal exacerbates sectarian divisions in Iraq
Friday, January 11, 2008 :Under pressure from the US embassy and the military, Iraq’s two most powerful Shiite parties are seeking to reach a power-sharing arrangement to end, at least temporarily, the often bloody conflict between them. Representatives of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), the dominant party in the Iraqi government, and the Sadrist movement of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr held talks on January 3 in Kufa—Sadr’s home city and religious base in southern Iraq.
Friday, January 11, 2008 :Under pressure from the US embassy and the military, Iraq’s two most powerful Shiite parties are seeking to reach a power-sharing arrangement to end, at least temporarily, the often bloody conflict between them. Representatives of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), the dominant party in the Iraqi government, and the Sadrist movement of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr held talks on January 3 in Kufa—Sadr’s home city and religious base in southern Iraq.
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