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| Iraq |
| Maliki busy choosing cabinet |
| 2006-05-01 |
| Bombs and drive-by shootings killed 10 people yesterday, and the bodies of seven Iraqi men who apparently had been kidnapped and tortured in captivity were found in three different areas of Baghdad, police said. The deadliest attack yesterday involved a roadside bomb that exploded on a highway south of the capital, killing three security contractors and wounding two. Police said the casualties were all British, but Britain's Foreign Office said the dead were not British and that it could only confirm that one of the two wounded was. Despite the violence, Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Nuri Al-Maliki continued to meet with politicians to choose his Cabinet for Iraq's new national unity government — one aimed at calming sectarian tensions and luring disaffected Sunni Arabs away from the insurgency. Al-Maliki has promised to finish the job in the next two weeks, but it could be difficult for him to fill top Cabinet posts with politicians who are not affiliated with parties that have maintained armed militias being blamed for sectarian violence. |
| Posted by:Fred |