Mustafa had been the Minister of Defense for less than three months.
But he was very clear about how he had come by his power, and he was quite adept at wielding it.
To outsiders, his promotion to the position of minister seemed accidental, but Mustafa knew very well it was because he had the support of the Americans behind him.
In Illigo's current temporary government, there were numerous parties, both big and small, amounting to more than twenty, but in general, they could be divided into three factions: the Sunni, the Shiye, and the Kurds.
The Freedom Front, to which Mustafa belonged, was a small branch within the Sunni Sect, which made up only about forty percent of Illigo's population, while the Shiye Sect occupied more than fifty percent.
Moreover, because the Shiye Sect had been marginalized during Sadam's rule, they saw the election as a rare opportunity to turn their numerical advantage into political power.
