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 Cole: What I cannot understand is why the Iraqi Accord Front thinks 
 that the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) is 
 less implicated in the "oppression" of Sunni Arabs or prison abuse 
 that Ibrahim Jaafari. The likely prime minister if Jaafari steps aside 
 is Adil Abdul Mahdi of SCIRI. It has been suggested that if SCIRI gets 
 the prime minister post, it would be forced as a matter of political 
 bargaining to give up the Ministry of the Interior, which it is 
 accused of packing with members of its Badr Corps paramilitary. The 
 Dawa Party that Jaafari leads does not have as big or important a 
 militia. It is possible that the Sunnis are trying to maneuver SCIRI 
 out of Interior, and Jaafari is just the sacrificial lamb here. 
 Veteran Iraq analyst Joost Hiltermann prescribes 4 steps to avoid the 
 disintegration of Iraq. 
  
 Khalid Jarar discusses the dominance of religious Shiites in the 
 security forces, his own false arrest, and the Sunni Arab brain drain 
 from Iraq. Iraqis are now ten percent of the Jordanian resident 
 population, a little less than the proportion of Latinos in the US . . 
  
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