Under the stewardship of the country's most powerful religious figure, Iraq's fractured Shiite Muslim majority has closed ranks and produced a unified list of candidates for the parliamentary elections set for Jan 30.... The names of the 240 candidates will be released later this week, said Hussein Shahristani, the nuclear scientist charged by Sistani with organizing the list....
- Anthony Shadid and Karl Vick, "Candidate Slate Shows Shiites Closing Ranks: Sistani Backs List for Parliamentary Vote", Washington Post (Tuesday, 7 December 2004), page A-20.
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