Shiite exile nominated to lead Iraq Governing Council wants Ayad Allawi for interim prime minister -- but the people may not From: Oakland Tribune | Date: May 29, 2004| Author: Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Washington Post | Copyright 2004 Oakland Tribune. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's U.S.-appointed Governing Council on Friday unanimously nominated Ayad Allawi, a Shiite Muslim politician and former exile whose party was supported by the CIA, to be the country's interim prime minister.

The council's selection of Allawi, a physician who left Iraq in 1971, was quickly endorsed by L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. civilian administrator of Iraq, and later by Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N. representative who is leading efforts to form an interim Iraqi governme...

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