Looks like the top leadership posts in the new Iraqi government will be divided between representatives of the Unified Iraq Coalition and Kurdish Alliance, with Ibrahim al-Ja’fari, leader of the Shia al-Dawa party, as Prime Minister and Kurdisj leader Jalal Talibani as President. The insurgents have been hoping to bring these tow groups into open civil war (witness yesterday’s bombing of a Shia mosque in Kurdish Mosul) but the pro-democracy Iraqi’s are more sensible than the terorrists or many western analysts have given them credit for.

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James S. Robbins is a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council.
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