A Nascent Effort to Form a New Iraqi Gov't

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

A Nascent Effort to Form a New Iraqi Gov't


U.S. leaders aren't the only ones who are fed up with the ineptitude of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki.

A move to form a new Shiite-Sunni coalition government is gaining momentum in Iraq. The major goals are to end the sectarian civil war that has raged for several months and to break the hold that Moqtada al-Sadr has over the current regime. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is reportedly backing this effort.

This is probably good news. But, as Tapped's Spencer Ackerman explains, nothing in Iraq is quite as simple or easy as it may seem.

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