From a very young age, the 58-year-old [Ibrahim Al-Jaafari] struggled against Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime. Born in Karbalaa, Al- Jaafari graduated as a medical doctor from Mosul University and in 1968 joined the Islamic Dawa' Party of Iraq. He fled to Iran after the Baathist crackdown on Dawa members. Membership in the party was made punishable by death and tens of thousands of [Shi]'a were slaughtered throughout the 1980s and 90s by the Saddam regime. Al-Jaafari's effectiveness as a Prime Minister remains to be seen. The Iraqi Interim Government faces daunting challenges to its legitimacy in many parts of the country. Al-Jaafari reportedly favors the implementation of an Islamic state in Iraq but has been willing to take the concerns of minorities into consideration. This will pro...
The coalition list which won the 2005 elections is the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA). Comprising mainly religious Shi'a parties, it was formed with the blessing of Iraq's most influential Shi'a cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. INA, a mostly Shi'a coalition, includes [Ammar Hakim]'s Mamie Supreme Council of Iraq (formerly SCIRI), Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress, the Badr Organization, the Sadrists, breakaway Dawa party members led by former prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the Islamic Virtue Party (Fadhilah)~ the Shi'a Turkmen Movement, and other parties. The list won 75 seats in the January 2005 elections, making it the second most powerful political bloc. It was allied to the United Iraqi Alliance in government until the Shi'a bloc split into two parties. Since tensions ...
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A U.S. military helicopter crashed Saturday during a "combat air patrol" southwest of Baghdad, but the status of the crew was unknown, according to the American command. Meanwhile, pressure mounted on Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari to step aside as the Shiite bloc's nominee for a second term, with some fellow Shiites urging him to withdraw to break the deadlock over a new government amid increasing sectarian violence.
What's the underlying message of the frenzied commotion over establishing a government in Iraq? Last week, word emerged that President Bush wants to get rid of Iraq's prime minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, who doesn't seem able to put together a government and has aroused the enmity of parties in and out of his own Shi'a community. It came from aides to Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, one of the two biggest parties in Iraq's dominant Shi'a bloc. They revealed that Zalmay Khalilizad, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, had passed on the Bush message. Mr. al-Jaafari's predicament arises from his membership in Iraq's predominant Shi'a community and that many powerful forces in that community are unhappy with him. The Kurds are unhappy with hi...
BAGHDAD - The two front-runners vying to become Iraq's next prime minister failed to get the support of an influential Shiite movement in results from a poll released Wednesday, further muddying the political situation following inconclusive March elections. Instead, the bulk of supporters of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who has emerged as a kingmaker, said he should back Shiite politician Ibrahim al-Jaafari, who was interim prime minister from 2005 to 2006. Nearly as many cast ballots for one of al-Sadr's relatives.
The United States military says it is hoping to make a substantial reduction in its forces in Iraq, beginning next spring and summer. General George Casey, the senior US commander in Iraq, said that if political developments continued positively and Iraqi security forces became stronger then there could be sharp cuts in his 135,000-strong force. The Iraqi Prime Minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, said at a joint press conference with Mr [Donald Rumsfeld] that the Americans should leave as soon as Iraqis are ready. He said: "The great desire of the Iraqi people is to see the coalition forces on their way as soon as [the new Iraqi security forces] take more responsibility." He added that there should be no surprise pull-out. Al-Qa'ida in Iraq has said it has killed two kidnapped Algerian envoys...
BAGHDAD, Iraq Shiite lawmakers Sunday chose incumbent Ibrahim al- Jaafari to be Iraq's new prime minister, endorsing the physician and longtime exile for a second term by a single vote thanks in large part to support by a radical anti-U.S. faction. Al-Jaafari's selection paves the way for the Shiite alliance to begin talks with parties representing Sunni Arabs, Kurds, secularists and others to form a broad-based government, which the U.S. hopes can calm the insurgency so American and other foreign troops can begin leaving.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite growing anxiety about the war in Iraq, President Bush refused to set a timetable Friday for bringing home U.S. troops and declared, "I'm not giving up on the mission. We're doing the right thing. Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, with Bush at a White House news conference, expressed gratitude for the heavy U.S. sacrifice in Iraq - the deaths of at least 1,730 members of the military.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb killed at least seven people and wounded 24 on a busy avenue Saturday as Shiite politicians floated a proposal to end the standoff over a new government by having Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari step down - but only if his replacement comes from his own party. The blast occurred at lunchtime outside an east Baghdad restaurant frequented by police officers, four of whom were among the injured, Sgt. Sabah Mohsen said. All the dead were civilians, police said.
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