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"The Secretary General deployed a fact-finding mission to Iraq from 6 to 13 February 2004. This initiative was in follow-up to the meeting he convened in New York on 19 January 2004 with the Governing Council of Iraq and the Coalition Provision Authority and in response to requests from both parties as well as many Iraqi organizations and personalities, including Ayatollah Ali Sistani, a prominent Shiʻa cleric. The fact-finding mission was led by ... Lakhdar Brahimi"--Introduction.

Iraq's transition to democracy : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, June 29, 2005.