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"Al-Jaafari spent more than two decades in exile, mostly in Britain and Iran, helping to lead anti-Saddam opposition forces in the Islamic Dawa Party, Iraq's first Shiite Islamic political party. He also has close ties to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric. Al-Jaafari's wife is a distant relative of al-Sistani's."

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=648709

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Asked about the timetable for the multinational forces to withdraw from Iraq, Jaafari said, "We will set a timetable for building Iraqi security forces and this would be the timetable for the foreign forces to withdraw from Iraq."

Great response.