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On Friday, the Shiite-led political bloc, the United Iraqi Alliance, put forward al-Maliki of the Dawa Party as its candidate to replace al-Jaafari.
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Presumably aware of this danger, General Musharraf has praised the job being done by Jamaat-ud-Dawa and the Al-Rasheed Trust, two Islamist groups in the forefront of the aid effort.
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The alliance includes al-Maliki's Dawa Party and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.
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Mr Allawi did even better as an individual, polling at 35% against 11% for his closest competitor, Ibrahim al-Jaafari of the Dawa Party, probably the Alliance's strongest component.
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Jack Reed said Iran has close ties to all of Iraq's Shiite factions, including al-Maliki's Dawa party and the country's largest Shiite religious party, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.
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The United Iraqi Alliance on Sunday night discussed the draft, which was presented by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, whose Dawa Party is also a member of the ruling bloc.
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In addition, much of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Dawa Party leadership took refuge in Iran before Hussein's overthrow by a U.S.-led army in 2003, though al-Maliki himself was in exile in Syria.
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Al-Maliki's Dawa Party has been trying to avert a governmental collapse by entering into an alliance with another Shiite party and the two top Kurdish parties, but it has not been able to attract a top Sunni party to join its effort.
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Almost certainly, Mr Talabani will be Iraq's president and Dr Ibrahim al-Jaafari, who heads the Dawa party within the Shia alliance, prime minister.
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In contrast, Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, the Dawa Party and the Badr Brigades are agents of the Iranian regime, as are Hizbullah and the Iraqi Special Groups.
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And al-Maliki, who is a member of the Dawa Party, which is a very religious organization, it calls for the Shia religious leadership to direct the government.
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