Iraqi Islamic Forces Union
Reportedly formed by former members of SCIRI who split from that organization in 2002. It also reportedly contains various wings of the Al-Da'wah Party (see above also). Abu-Haydar al-Asadi is often cited as a member of the union's provisional leadership. "Al-Hayat" reported on July 2002 that the group rejected relations with the United States. Al-Asadi said in a statement to the daily: "Washington's main aim from this dialogue is to harm the credibility of the Iraqi Islamic opposition, exclude it from the masses, and isolate it at the Arab and Islamic levels." He added that the Iraqi people would not trust the United States, which abandoned Iraq during the 1991 uprising that followed the Gulf War. Al-Asadi instead advocated that the regime be toppled through an independent Iraqi resistance.
He also told "Al-Hayat": "The Iraqi Islamic Forces Union's vision of change is based on activating the resistance inside Iraq and making it the top priority so that jihad [military] action becomes the ultimate cover for all actions as a result of the dictatorial Iraqi regime's practices against the people."
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