Iraq leader announces Cabinet changes

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Iraq leader announces Cabinet changes

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writer
17 minutes ago

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's prime minister asked Parliament Thursday
to approve six new Cabinet members to replace a group which
resigned last month on the orders of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada
al-Sadr.

Al-Sadr ordered his ministers to quit the government over Prime
Minister Nouri al-Maliki's refusal to call for a timetable for U.S.
withdrawal. The anti-American cleric went into hiding in Iran last
February when the Baghdad security crackdown was launched.

In Parliament, al-Maliki thanked al-Sadr for giving him the "authority
to choose the ministers."

He told the chamber, which will decide in a vote Sunday, that all six
were independent "not because we have something against parties,
but we were keen on their being independent because that was one
of the conditions put for the selection."

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1. "Next we want to get rid of the corrupt puppetmaster oil crusaders." - Al-Sadr

"No one could have imagined how corrupt these republicon crusaders would be: telling lies to begin the crusade, TORTURING everyone they got their hands on, stealing billions of US taxpayer & Iraq dollars, using highly paid mercenary soldiers for black ops, and on and on and on -- all of it led by a Connecticut Preppy Crusader who DESERTED his own National Guard Unit. Who could of imagined this shit? Our next goal is to get rid of these corrupt stooge invader-crusaders."

- Al-Sadr