Nouri Kamel Mohammed Hassan al-Maliki (Arabic: نوري كامل المالكي, transliterated "Nūrī Kāmil al-Mālikī"; born c. 1950), also known as Jawad al-Maliki, is the State Prime Minister of Iraq. He is a Shi'a Muslim, and is secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Al-Maliki and his government succeeded the Iraqi Transitional Government. His 37-member Cabinet was approved by the National Assembly and sworn in on May 20, 2006. Wikipedia
Shi'a leaders in the U.S. are cautiously optimistic about political changes in Iraq and have called the naming of Shi'a politician Jawad al-Maliki as Iraq's new prime minister part of the nation's fledgling democratic process. al-huda.al-khoei.org/news/63/ARTICLE/1138/2006-04-23.html
It took a leading role in the Damascus based coordinating forum, the Joint Action Committee (JAC), and had one of its senior members, Jawad al-Maliki installed as the chairman of the JAC. www.meib.org/articles/0306_iraqd.htm
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