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"Abdul Aziz al-Hakim is a member of the
Iraqi Governing Council and the leader of the
Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq
(SCIRI), a large, influential, and moderate Iraqi
Shiite political organization formerly based in
Iran. Having long opposed Saddam and operated
clandestinely against his regime, SCIRI did not
interfere with the U.S.-led invasion, and it has
since formed a tactical alliance with the
Coalition Provisional Authority. Al-Hakim is also
believed to be the commander of SCIRI's militia
group, the Badr Brigade, renamed the Badr
Organization for Development and Reconstruction.
Al-Hakim's brother, the revered Ayatollah
Muhammad Baqr al-Hakim, was killed in a car
bombing in August 2003 outside the shrine of Imam
Ali in Najaf." Notes-on-Abdul-Aziz-Al-Hakim Born
in 1959 as a son of the late Grand Ayatollah,
Muhsin al-Hakim at Najaf. He fled to Iran with
his brother, Baqr al-Hakim to avoid Saddam's
persecution. He has been return from Iran after
23 years of exiles and participates now to
American appointed Iraqi interim governing
council. After the assassination of his brother
in August 2003 at Najaf, he became the president
of Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in
Iraq, an organisation founded in Iran by his
brother against Saddam's regime. Online
dictionary of Iraq
SCIRI (Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution
in Iraq)or as it also known SAIRI (Supreme
Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq) is
the voice of the Shia people in Iraq. Founded by
refugees from the Iran Iraq war in 1982 it has
grown into a political union with a military
wing. JBOC
How
Iran Is Winning Iraq (washingtonpost.com)
The
New York Times: The Elections: Iraqi
Campaign Raises Question of Iran's Sway
The
Daily Star - Politics - Shiite cleric
with links to Iran tops Iraqi election
list
Boston.com
/ News / World / Representative of Iraq's
dominant Iran-linked Shiite party tops
election list
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