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This is an archive article published on April 24, 2006

New attacks after Iraqi PM named

Fresh mortar attacks and the discovery of six bodies in Baghdad on Sunday highlighted the security challenge still facing Iraqi leaders after they broke months of political deadlock to appoint a new Prime Minister.

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Fresh mortar attacks and the discovery of six bodies in Baghdad on Sunday highlighted the security challenge still facing Iraqi leaders after they broke months of political deadlock to appoint a new Prime Minister.

Jawad al-Maliki, chosen on Saturday, has a month to form a cabinet sharing power among Shi8217;ites, Sunni Arabs and Kurds and his choices for key posts, such as Interior Minister, are seen as critical to uniting Iraqis.

8216;8216;Overcoming this impasse of forming the government doesn8217;t mean solving all the political crises in Iraq,8217;8217; Saleem al Jubouri, a professor at Baquba8217;s Diyala University, said on Sunday.

8216;8216;Maliki has tough issues to deal with8212;occupation, armed militias and illegal detention centres.8217;8217;

Underlining the security crisis, a mortar attack killed at least five people near the Defence Ministry on Sunday, within earshot of the heavily fortified Green Zone, home to Maliki and other government leaders.

Police found the six bodies, shot in the head, in Baghdad8217;s Sunni district of Adhamiya where sectarian tensions sparked gun battles last week.

 

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