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Once again, Maliki looks like a shoe in as Iraqi PM and Alawi looks like he has accepted a power sharing post in a deal.
Which may finally allow Iraq to get a functional government for the first time since elections nearly a years ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/world/middleeast/16iraq.html?_r=1&ref=global-hom
Of course the critical thing that vaulted Maliki over the top of his rival, Alawai, who won a few more seats in Parliament than Malaki, was Al-Sadar tipping his support to Maliki some two months or so ago.
As I recall, the same deal was announced about a month ago, only to have Alawi arrive, and find the Maliki block unwilling to actually grant the Alawi side what they had promised. So the deal collapsed in a few hours with the Alawi side walking away.
Will it be different now? I certainly hope so, because there has been a slow and steady increase in terrorists and sectarian violence in Iraq, that could easily send Iraq into a civil war at exactly the same time there are not enough peacekeeping troops left to stop anything. Hopefully a functioning Iraq government can be the cure.
Which may finally allow Iraq to get a functional government for the first time since elections nearly a years ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/world/middleeast/16iraq.html?_r=1&ref=global-hom
Of course the critical thing that vaulted Maliki over the top of his rival, Alawai, who won a few more seats in Parliament than Malaki, was Al-Sadar tipping his support to Maliki some two months or so ago.
As I recall, the same deal was announced about a month ago, only to have Alawi arrive, and find the Maliki block unwilling to actually grant the Alawi side what they had promised. So the deal collapsed in a few hours with the Alawi side walking away.
Will it be different now? I certainly hope so, because there has been a slow and steady increase in terrorists and sectarian violence in Iraq, that could easily send Iraq into a civil war at exactly the same time there are not enough peacekeeping troops left to stop anything. Hopefully a functioning Iraq government can be the cure.
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