The al-Dawa party, which just won the Iraqi "elections" used to be on the US list of terrorist organizations. They have been implicated in bombings of US, and French Embassies, and took hostages at the British Embassy in Iraq.
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| Al Dawa was founded in the late 1950s in Iraq by Shiite mullahs and ayatollahs who hated Communism, socialism and the Baath Party, and for more than 40 years they’ve left an unbroken trails of murder, assassinations, and bombings in their wake. Under various Iraqi governments, before and after Saddam Hussein, Al Dawa carried out a campaign of terror . In the 1970s they regularly assassinated Iraqi officials and then joined hands with the Iran ’s Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979. After 1979, backed by Iran, Al Dawa’s terror campaign stepped up—at a time when the United States was trying to work with Saddam’s Iraq against the threat of Iranian expansionism. (Also working with Saddam, of course, was virtually the entire rest of the world, from the USSR to Saudi Arabia.) Also in the 1980s, Al Dawa expanded its terrorism to Kuwait, bombing the U.S. and French embassies. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/our_terrorist.php |
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| Three terrorists took over the British Embassy in Baghdad on the eve of Iraq's first parliamentary election in 22 years, but died an hour later in a shootout with Iraqi security forces. Iraqi authorities received permission from the British ambassador to storm the building. The embassy staff members were not injured. An anonymous caller claimed the attack on behalf of the Al Dawa party in Iraq. http://www.terrorismknowledgebase.com/Inci....jsp?incID=2660 |
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| KUWAIT. A suicide driver drove a car wired with explosives into the motorcade of the ruling Emir of Kuwait. The Emir escaped with only minor injuries; however, four people traveling with him, as well as the suicide driver, were killed. Twelve people were injured. The terrorist driver has been identified as an Iraqi member of the Al-Dawa (Islamic Call Party). Al Dawa provides a recruiting pool for the Islamic Jihad terrorist cells, and Al Dawa personnel participated in the December 1983 truck and car-bomb attacks in Kuwait against U.S., French and domestic installations. Although an anonymous phone caller originally claimed the attack for Islamic Jihad, a later communique denied involvement. http://www.terrorismknowledgebase.com/Inci....jsp?incID=4189 |
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| LEBANON. The Iraqi Shi'ite "Al Dawa" Party claimed credit for the bombing in Beirut of the Kuwaiti Embassy. http://www.terrorismknowledgebase.com/Inci....jsp?incID=4000 |
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| Iraqi political leaders are likely to select a new prime minister this week as officials jockey for position in the transitional government. Among those vying to become prime minister are interim Finance Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi and Dawa Party leader Ibrahim al-Jaafari. Al-Jaafari is the preferred candidate of two top parties in the alliance, said Barham Salih, Iraq's interim deputy prime minister and the top Kurdish official in the interim government. Salih said that the Dawa Party and Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq have agreed that al-Jaafari is their favorite... http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/15/iraq.main/ |
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| Yesterday, the bloc of Shiite parties that won the most seats in Iraq's election chose Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the leader of one of the two main Shiite Islamic parties, as its candidate for prime minister. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/23/opinion/23wed2.html?8br |