Iraq’s new government has yet to emerge, but the Shi’ite Islamist bloc that dominated this month’s election says it will be led either by current Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari or Vice-President Adel Abdul Mahdi. “The competition is between these two. They are the Alliance candidates and there is no third,” a senior source in the Shi’ite Islamist United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) said on Friday. Full Story