The image below is one of the evi­dence used by the Jus­tice and Account­abil­ity against Salih Al-Mutlaq. It is a doc­u­ment from 2002 shows that Salih Al-Mutlaq was in con­tact with the Iraqi Intel­li­gence ser­vice, and as the paper says he worked for the service.

I don’t know if it is authen­tic or not, because Iraq is full with such faked doc­u­ments (post con­tin­ues below the image … ).

The Jus­tice and Account­abil­ity released a state­ment say­ing that the list doesn’t stop with the 499 names, there will add more names, the num­ber can reach up to 1200 can­di­date. At the same time Allawi announced his Al-Iraqiyya list, but what makes the (333) list spe­cial is: the only clerics-free list (Sunni and Shi­ite) in the election.

Mind you, this is not the top news of today. INA released the names of its can­di­dates, and there were few sur­prises. From the 300 can­di­dates Ibrahim Al-Jaafari came first (sup­ported by the Sadrists), fol­lowed by Al-Zubaidi (aka Soulagh) and Ahmed Cha­l­abi came in third.

I want to stop here a bit, because there are two can­di­dates (Al-Jaafari and Al-Zubaidi) opposed by the Kurds, I bet part of Hakim’s visit to Irbil was to con­vince the Kurds to accept the both (sup­port my can­di­dates and I will sup­port yours) kind of deal.

Also inter­est­ing to see the Adil Abdul Mehdi is not one of the top-three can­di­dates (all his meet­ings in Wash­ing­ton with Obama and Biden for nothing).

Another Sur­prise is that the Sun­nis in INA man­aged to obtain high-ranks in the can­di­dacy, Naseer Al-Chaderchi came as num­ber 9, fol­lowed by Al-Sharif Ali bin Al-Hussein Bin Ali, which encour­aged Al-Hakim to hold a meet­ing a meet­ing with for­mer House speaker AL-Mashhadani try­ing to con­vince to join the coalition.

For the Kur­dish coali­tion, there are also few results (based on rumors), which says that the Kurds are ready to sac­ri­fice the “Pres­i­dent” post, because this posi­tion will lose a lot of pow­ers in the next term, and become an hon­orary position.

More rumors from Kur­dis­tan says that Kur­dis­tan provin­cial pres­i­dent Barzani, addressed cur­rent FM Zebari that he can hold his posi­tion as a For­eign Min­is­ter in the next Gov­ern­ment (he is in this post for three Gov­ern­ments). Zebari will be the Kur­dish coalition’s can­di­date for Ninewa Province, and they will try to appoint him as a Vice-President or a House speaker in the next Government.

If we look to the Sunni side, there are three nom­i­nees for the pres­i­dency, Tariq Al-Hashemi, Ahmed Abu Risha and Saleh Al-Mutlaq, but with Mutlaq’s recent cri­sis, Abu Risha’s (who run with Bol­nai) chances are increasing.