Allawi waits impatiently in the wings
Despite losing out in Iraq’s January elections, former prime minister Iyad Allawi has not taken defeat lying down and is busy playing the role of statesman — until he can once again be one. Allawi recently met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Jordan’s King Abdullah II, spoke with US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair and is to head to Egypt to meet President Hosni Mubarak.Full Story