AFP is reporting that Moqtada al-Sadr is not on the list assembled by Ayatollah al-Sistani’s United Iraqi Alliance.
The United Iraqi Alliance, backed by highly revered Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, includes the Dawa party, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress, Dawa’s Ali Adib said.
But Moqtada al-Sadr, whose militia battled US-led forces in Baghdad and Najaf before calling a truce, “is not on the list” after not registering his movement for the elections, said Hussein Shahrastani, a member of the coalition’s organising committee.
Oddly, several reports still claim that the Sadrists are on the list.
