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| Iraq |
| Under pressure to form new government, Iraq parliament to convene Sunday |
| 2014-07-09 |
| [Washington Post] Iraq's parliament has announced that it will convene on Sunday, amid mounting pressure to form a new government that can deal with a litany of challenges that threaten to tear this country apart. The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... had expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... s on Monday after parliament cancelled Tuesday's session to give the country's deeply divided political factions time to reach an agreement. Lawmakers had planned to meet on Aug. 12. But the delay would have further imperiled Baghdad's ability to keep this oil-rich country intact a month after al-Qaeda-inspired snuffies seized much of Iraq's north and west, spurring the partial collapse of the nation's armed forces, politicians and government critics said. The turbans, who call themselves the Islamic State, have declared a caliphate in that territory and have vowed to press on toward Baghdad. Amid the chaos, Iraq's Kurdish minority has threatened to hold a referendum on independence for its own largely autonomous region in the north. |
| Posted by:Fred |