Nouri al-Maliki... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014...
rejected calls for forming an emergency government to help the country counter a surge by Sunni Islamist murderous Moslems.
The sectarian conflict in Iraq threatened to spill beyond its borders as warplanes of the Syrian Army bombed Sunni strongholds in western Iraq and Iran has reportedly begun to send in military equipment and is flying unarmed surveillance drones over the country.