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In the middle of continuing violence and insurgency Iraq’s controversial expatriates apparently in control of oil ministry
Violence and insurgency continues in Iraq. The tussle is between Iraq’s former Baathist regime and the newly elected Shitte-Kurd coalition with embedded Iraq’s expatriates like Ahmed Chalabi who was based in Washington and had questionable banking dealings in Jordan. He is now the new Iraqi Oil Man.
Gunmen shot and killed an officer in the Iraqi Interior Ministry on April 28. Iraqi police said Lt. Col. Allaa Khalil Ibrahim, who worked in the visa section, was killed on his way to work in Baghdad. Meanwhile, insurgents tried to attack a U.S. military base in Musayyib with mortars, but hit a bus station in the neighborhood instead. The attack, which occured during morning rush hour, killed four Iraqi civilians and wounded 21, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials. In Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, a suicide car bomber attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint, reportedly injuring four Iraqi soldiers, three U.S. soldiers and seven Iraqi civilians.
In the middle of this, interesting things are happening in Iraqi politics. Iraq's 275-seat Parliament approved a partial Cabinet on April 28, with 180 of the 185 members present voting in favor of Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari's new government. The government will begin working with 27 ministers and five acting ministers. Negotiations continue over positions for deputy prime minister and the ministries of defense, oil, power, industry, and human rights. Jaafari will serve as acting defense minister and Ahmed Chalabi will hold one of the deputy prime minister slots as well as the oil ministry portfolio on an interim basis.
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