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Petraeus: Leaders of accountability and justice commission manipulated by the Iranian Quds force

Regarding the decision to blacklist several hundred candidates in Iraq, , General Petraeus  in an interveiw with The Times of London  on January 25 called the of  the accountability and justice commission as the ones who had not been confirmed as the leadership of it and were manipulated by the Iranian Quds forc.


 


Q: How worried are you that this furore over the decision to blacklist several hundred candidates could trigger fresh unrest over there and delay the US withdrawal plans?


Petraeus: I’m considerably much less worried than I was say last weekend when this was all really appearing that it actually could boil over and result in a reversal of the effect of two and an half years of reconciliation among different groups. It appears however in the last 48 to 72 hours that Iraqi leaders have really gripped this issue.


It turns out now that each party has at least double-digit numbers of individuals on this particular list of over 500 names and that it is reportedly 55 per cent or so Shia and 45 per cent or so Sunni.


So if it ever was as was reported a predominately Sunni list and predominately focused on sidelining Sunni candidates that is not the case now and it appears there is going to be, as has been the case in Iraq on a number of previous occasions


when there has been quite considerable political drama, that Iraqi leaders will resolve the issue without unhinging and undoing again two and a half years of very hard work at reconciling all of the factions inside the new Iraq.


Q: So no panic.


Petraeus: No panic.


Q: No timetable changes.


Petraeus: No timetable changes. Still a weather eye though at this issue and a number of other issues and I think residual concern from this particular issue by Iraqi leaders about how leaders of a previous organisation that was supposed to have been defunct by the legislation that established the accountability and justice commission that replaced the former de-Baathification committee, those leaders seemingly hijacking the new organisation without having been confirmed as the leadership of it and being manipulated by reportedly the Iranian Quds force.


You said that US intelligence believes that Peter Moore spent some time in Iran but Britain’s FCO insists there is no evidence of this. Who is mistaken?


We’ll throw it back to the intelligence community and let them tell us what they think.


You haven’t heard any different? You still think he was held in Iran?


I have heard no different information.


Do you know how long?


I do not. No.

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