Dam­as­cus and Riyadh are coop­er­at­ing to sup­port Iraq’s nation­al­ists fac­ing those who are asso­ci­ated with the United States, and the sep­a­ratists to pro­tect Iraq’s unity and stability.

Jaa­far Mohammed Baqir Al-Sadr is the cousin of Muq­tada Al-Sadr and son of Aya­tol­lah Moham­mad Sadiq Al-Sadr, who cre­ated Dawa Party (later hanged by Sad­dam Hus­sein), con­firmed by Al-Hayat today.

Pres­sured to join SoL few months before the elec­tion to bal­ance his cousin’s Muq­tada Al-Sadr’s weight in INA. Ja’afar lives in Lebanon after he forced to flee Iran after ide­ol­ogy dif­fer­ences between his father and the Iran­ian regime led by Khomeini.

The young man is well known with his week char­ac­ter, intro­duced as Maliki’s alter­na­tive and a neu­tral can­di­date to hold the PM posi­tion. Some peo­ple sug­gested that Ja’afar will be a pup­pet, while in real­ity Maliki will pull the strings.

Must admit, this is a British plan and a British idea. I don’t think that the Amer­i­cans like this idea, they love some cor­rupt busi­ness­men, Ja’afar is not corrupt.

John Wilks Deputy British ambas­sador in Iraq wrote the fol­low­ing in his Blog:

A price for a deal could be the appoint­ment of an inde­pen­dent or rel­a­tively unknown fig­ure. So the answer to the ques­tion, who will be the next Prime Min­is­ter of Iraq is: nobody knows.

Why Ja’afar?

- He stood against the exclu­sion of the Ba’ath party from the polit­i­cal process.

- He sup­ports the sep­a­ra­tion of the reli­gion from the state.

- He doesn’t sup­port the impo­si­tion of the veil on women. Doesn’t mind to sit with the veiled or unveiled women.

- He Rejects the fed­er­a­tion of the south and sup­ports the fed­eral Kur­dis­tan. (His argu­ment is weak on this mat­ter … Say­ing that Iraq is not a big coun­try to sup­port fed­er­al­ism … UAE is a tiny coun­try con­tains ten federations).

- He said that the pre­vi­ous Gov. made lit­tle efforts to win the trust of the neigh­bor­ing countries.

The prob­lem with this plan:

scott sullivan
March 29th, 2010
As I said in op-eds through­out 2006 in Petro­le­um­world (VEN), Per­sian Jour­nal (Iran), and the Con­ser­v­a­tive Voice (USA), Muq­tada al Sadr would be the most qual­i­fied can­di­date as Iraq’s next PM bea­cause he will become another Tito.

Tito led Yugoslavia to great­ness in three areas., First. Tito led Yugoslavia to vic­tory over the Nazis in WW II. Tito had the great dis­tinc­tion of lead­ing the only coun­try in Europe that was occu­pied by Ger­man forces through­out WW II but whose lead­er­ship did not sur­ren­der, choos­ing instead to con­duct a five year suc­cess­ful resis­tance to the Nazis, just as Muq­tada al Sadr is doing in Iraq.

Third, after defeat­ing the Nazis, the Com­mu­nists, and the Vat­i­can, Tito led the Third World states , many of them Arab, to defy the Super­pow­ers in the UN.

Finally, as the leader of a multi-ethnic and mul­ti­con­fes­sional state, Tito was care­ful to pro­tect the rights of Yugoslavia’s reli­gious minori­ties, espe­cially the Muslims.
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Tito led Yugoslavia to greatness in three areas., First. Tito led Yugoslavia to victory over the Nazis in WW II. Tito had the great distinction of leading the only country in Europe that was occupied by German forces throughout WW II but whose leadership did not surrender, choosing instead to conduct a five year successful resistance to the Nazis, just as Muqtada al Sadr is doing in Iraq.

Second, Tito turned Yugosalvia into a regional superpower who defeated aggession from Hitler and the Nazis, Stalin and the communists, and the Roman Cathoiic Popes. As the Romans used to say about Titos tank corps after WW II, “When Tito orders his tanks to start their engines, the knees of all the Romans start to tremble.”

Third, after defeating the Nazis, the Communists, and the Vatican, Tito led the Third World states , many of them Arab, to defy the Superpowers in the UN.

Finally, as the leader of a multi-ethnic and multiconfessional state, Tito was careful to protect the rights of Yugoslavia’s religious minorities, especially the Muslims.