The alliance includes nontechnology companies like American Airlines, Bank of America and Fidelity Investments.
Mr. Allawi's alliance includes Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi.
The alliance includes 167 pupils, as well as 150 schools, 42 councils and six professional bodies.
The Star Alliance includes Air Canada, Lufthansa and United Airlines, and is expected to add Continental later this year.
South Africa's main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, includes members of the former apartheid government.
The alliance includes Sun Microsystems, a longtime foe of Microsoft, as well as companies like Nokia, AOL Time Warner, Eastman Kodak, Fujitsu and Oracle.
The alliance includes left-wing parties and environmental organizations, Indian tribes and intellectuals, rubber tappers and Roman Catholic lay groups.
The alliance includes business software makers Salesforce.com and Oracle, who are moving to let third-party programmers write applications that can be accessed by their customers.
The diverse alliance includes philosophers Slavoj Žižek and Noam Chomsky, movie A-listers Susan Sarandon and Peter Sarsgaard, artist Sarah Lucas, and musicians Moby and MIA – not to mention the ubiquitous Russell Brand.
The alliance includes a $25 million investment in Strategy.com, a subsidiary of MicroStrategy, by Aether Systems, a worldwide wireless and mobile technology provider.
