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2010
Jan 14
Iraq’s Independent High Election Commission upheld a ban on nearly 500 politicians (reportedly Sunni) handed down some days earlier by the Accountability and Justice Commission. They were accused of having had ties to the Baath Party of Saddam Hussein. Among those not allowed to run in the nationwide elections scheduled for March 7 were Abdul-Kader al-Obeidi (the defense minister - a former Baathist, but one who turned against the party in the 1990s and was imprisoned and tortured by the Saddam regime) and Saleh al-Mutlaq, one of Iraq’s most influential Sunni politicians. The interpretation by many Iraqis is that the Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is disqualifying large numbers of political rivals, particularly Mutlaq, who had already allied himself with Ayad Allawi, a former prime minister. Ref-Link
Feb 8
Armed clashes between gunmen and Iraqi army happen in the Makhmour district. The army source claims the gunmen were of the Al Qaeda organization. Ref-Link
Feb 10
Iraqi Army cordoned off the provincial council building in Tikrit, Iraq by order of the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. The reported reason was a dispute over the provincial council’s legal powers to appoint a governor. Col. Henry A. Arnold III, commander of the First Infantry Division’s Fourth Brigade, told a council member outside the besieged building, “You have the law on your side.”
Photo: Michael Kamber for the New York Times
Feb 19
Saleh al-Mutlaq and his National Dialogue Front (NDF) decide to withdraw from Iraq's parliamentary election of March 7, 2010. Ref-Link. Ref-Link
Mar 5
Ali al-Lami, executive director of the Justice and Accountability Committee (JAC) which had barred around 500 candidates from the polls (in which he himself is running), quoted that: "The JAC decisions have been made according to the law." He also told the AFP: "Some of them are Baathists, and others are working as spies, all of them are dangerous." He was speaking from the Baghdad home of Ahmed Chalabi, chairman of the JAC, also a parliamentary candidate.
Per AFP: He said that on January 1 his committee received from the election commission a list of the names of all 6,500-odd candidates in the poll with the request that their pasts be checked to see if they had any part in the Sunni dictator's oppression of his people.
It cross-checked the names with three databases, whose details he did not specify, and built dossiers of candidates' alleged links to the Baath Party, said Lami, who like Chalabi is running on the Iraqi National Alliance slate.
Within 10 days, a list of 511 names had been compiled. Twenty-eight have since been reinstated, but political parties have largely either withdrawn the remaining candidates or replaced them with new names.
Lami noted that two-thirds of the names on the list were from the majority Shiites, while the remaining third were Sunni. Lami dismissed charges of a conflict of interest.
Saleh al-Mutlak, leader of the Sunni National Dialogue Front was the most prominent candidate barred. Ref-Link.
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executive director of the Justice and Accountability Committee (JAC) which had barred around 500 candidates from the polls (in which he himself is running), quoted that: "The JAC decisions have been made according to the law." He also told the 