Iraqi PM says cabinet shakeup within two weeks
AFP, March, 2007
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BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Sunday he would reshuffle his 39-member multiparty cabinet of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds within two weeks.
Asked at a media conference when a reshuffle could be expected, he replied: "Either this week or next week."
In the shakeup, Maliki is expected to streamline his cabinet and replace underperforming ministers.
There has been increasing talk in Iraqi political circles that Maliki may review the position of six ministers representing radical anti-American Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's political bloc.
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The group, which has 32 MPs in Iraq's 275-member parliament, suspended participation in the political process following Maliki's November 30 meeting with US President George W. Bush, but ended its boycott in late January.
US and Iraqi forces have targeted Sadr's militia -- previously regarded as untouchable -- in a massive security sweep through Baghdad in ...
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