Democratic Centrist Tendency
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The Democratic Centrist Tendency was an Iraqi political party founded in 2000 in London by Iraqi exiles who were opposed to the rule of Saddam Hussein. The group publishes the newspaper Al-Nahdah.[1]
[edit] Supporters
The founder members included:
- Secretary-General: Adnan Pachachi, Foreign Minister and UN Ambassador under the 1960s Baathist government of Abdul Salam Arif
- Deputy Secretary-General: Mahdi al-Hafez, UN Ambassador under Saddam Hussein during the 1970s who became Minster of Planning under the Iraqi Governing Council
- Executive Committee Member: Ayham al-Samarie, who became Minister of Electricity in the Iraqi Governing Council
- Spokesman: Ghassan al-Atiyyah, who was sentenced to death in 2000 after meeting with Israel at a Cairo conference[2]
- Hussein al-Shalaan, a close associate of Faysal al-Istrabadi, who drafted the Transitional Administrative Law
The DCT was supported by the U. S. State Department as an alternative to the Iraqi National Congress which was supported by the the Pentagon. It participated in the Follow-Up and Arrangement Committee in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
[edit] References
- ^ Independent Iraqi Democrats/Democratic Centrist Tendency, Global Security, accessed on 2007-01-20
- ^ Democratic Centrist Tendency (DCT) / Independent Democrats Movement (IDM), www.middleeastreference.org.uk, accessed on 2007-01-21
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