Iraq Reviews > Iraqi Government formed, three key security posts remain unfilled

http://www.sirhumphreys.com [Sir Humphrey's | The Department of Unspin] However three key security posts (Defense, National Security, Interior) remain unfilled. Prime Minister Maliki will handle the Interior portfolio for one week, while the Deputy PM (a Sunni) has been temporarily appointed to lead the Defense Ministry.

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[Captain's Quarters] Iraqis Join The Club: Considering that and the religious and ethnic tensions that exist in Iraq, along with the bitterness of the past few decades under Saddam Hussein's brutal rule, the marvel is that it only took three years to get to this stage. After Washington beat Cornwallis at Yorktown, it took an ethnically and religiously monolithic populace over seven years to agree on a permanent form of government, during which they got it wrong once.

http://bareknucklepolitics.com [Bareknucklepolitics.com] Key Obstacle In Forming Iraq Govt Resolved: BAGHDAD, Iraq May 9, 2006 (AP)”” Iraq’s prime minister-designate said Tuesday the main stumbling blocks to forming a new Cabinet have been overcome and he expects to present his team to parliament for approval by the end of the week.

[Don't Go Into The Light] Iraq government making progress: BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's prime minister-designate said Tuesday the main stumbling blocks to forming a new Cabinet have been overcome and he expects to present his team to parliament for approval by the end of the week.

http://madmanofchu.blogspot.com [Madman of Chu] Iraq Cabinet Woes: In addition to the various factions that comprise the insurgency, the Iraqi national army, and the new paramilitaries, there are the Kurdish pesh merga militia, the Iranian-backed Badr Brigade, and Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army. If the new police commando units become alienated from government authority not only will the Iraqi government lose its most effectve counterinsurgency weapon, but a collapse of trust might occur that would set all the various armed factions into motion against one-another, turning the civil war from a bilateral conflict into an anarchic cataclysm resembling the situation of Lebanon in the 1980's.

http://revolutionagainandagain.blogspot.com [Aquarian Conspirators: ALERTS, NEWS, COMMENTARY, and the occasional Rant] Iraq Car Blast at Funeral Leaves 25 Dead on... : A car bomb obliterated a tent packed with mourners at the funeral of a Kurdish official in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing 25 people and wounding more than 50 in the single deadliest attack since insurgents started bearing down on Iraq's newly named government late last week.

[Inthebullpen.com] In the Bullpen » Iraqi Parliament to be Formed ”˜Today or Tomorrow’: on who will head “the main posts”, including the ministries of the interior, .Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator linked with New Iraq .

Newsday.comhttp://www.newsday.com [Newsday.com] Iraqi parliament OKs elected government -- Newsday.com: Seven posts in the new government remain unfilled as the new prime minister, Shia Ibrahim Jaafari, notably failed for now to bring the disaffected Sunnis into his government. Most experts, and Jaafari himself, have said that doing so is key to eventually ending the Iraqi insurgency.

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