HW 31: Responding to Riverbend

During the reading, from Baghdad Burning, I became interested in Al-Hakim (Riverbend 43). I did some research on the Internet and found out that he was an Iraqi theologian and politician and the leader of SIIC, the largest political party in the Iraqi Council of Representatives. His full name is Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, and he was born in 1950. He was also a member of the United States-appointed Iraqi Governing Council and served as the president in December 2003. He was the top candidate listed for the United Iraqi Coalition during the first Iraqi legislative election of January 2005 but has not sought a government post because the Alliance had decided not to include theologians in the government. The reason I chose him was because Salam had sent Riverbend a post on her site saying that they were going to have an Iraqi blog-fight. (Riverbend 43). This “blog-fight” was going to be over Al-Hakim’s death. This interested me.