{"id":37,"date":"2003-07-16T12:24:52","date_gmt":"2003-07-16T16:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=37"},"modified":"2003-07-16T12:24:52","modified_gmt":"2003-07-16T16:24:52","slug":"abdelaziz-al-hakim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Abdelaziz Al Hakim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeanne at Body and Soul has asked<\/a> for more information on Abdelaziz Al Hakim, a Shiite now sitting on the new Iraqi Governing Council.<\/p>\n

Via Juan Cole<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Abdelaziz Al Hakim, a leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution (and head of the paramilitary Badr Corps)<\/i><\/p>\n

More on the Badr Corps from FAS<\/a>;<\/p>\n

It started as a brigade and developed into a division and then into a corps. The Badr Corps consist of thousands of former Iraqi officers and soldiers who defected from the Iraqi army, Iraqi refugees and POWs. A mutual agreement has been signed by SCIRI with The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) headed by Jalal Talabani to work against Saddam’s regime. A similar agreement was signed with the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) headed by Masood Barzani several years ago.<\/i><\/p>\n

As for connections to Chalabi’s INC I’d guess they go as deeply as either side finds beneficial to their respective ambitions.<\/p>\n

Jeanne described Chalabi as…well you read it<\/a>…and I completely agree.<\/p>\n

It could be the reason this loose cannon who can’t be trusted is now sitting on the council. He doesn’t fit the Bush & Co. profile of usual suspects tapped to fill these kinds of positions. Not pliable enough.<\/p>\n

‘One picture<\/a> is worth a thousand words.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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