The New Nuri al-Maliki
U.S. officials used to worry that Iraq's prime minister was too weak. That was then.
The circumstances surrounding Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's visit to Washington this week could not be more different from the last time he was in town. In July 2006, Maliki was largely unknown, both in Iraq and in the West, and lacked a constituency. Today, he is the dominant force in Iraqi politics, has consolidated much of the emerging Iraqi state into his own hands, and has won a measure of democratic legitimacy after January's provincial ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
