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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48259)	4/6/2005 3:32:42 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Iraq's squabbling factions reached agreement on the country's next president and vice presidents, a key step toward overcoming a political stalemate and forming a new government. It needed a big resolve to bring three groups together under one umbrella government; no one expected it, everyone thought this is beginning of a new Vietnam but it looks like Iraqis are taking responsibility, this is a great beginning and we all should rejoice in seeing a tormented nation moving forward albeit with a huge external help to get rid of the innate regime based on terror and disenfranchisement. Leaders of the main political blocs said veteran Kurdish politician Jalal Talabani would be named president at a parliament meeting on Wednesday, more than nine weeks after millions of Iraqis braved insurgent bombs to vote. Politicians said the two vice presidents will be Adel Abdul Mahdi, a Shi'ite who was finance minister in the outgoing government, and Sunni Arab tribal leader Ghazi Yawar, the previous president. Hoshyar Zebari, a Kurdish negotiator and foreign minister in Iraq's outgoing government, described the choice of Mr Yawer as "the common denominator". They have also been trying to include representatives of the Sunni Arab minority that dominated Iraq under Saddam Hussein but was left sidelined after most Sunni Arabs stayed away from the Jan. 30 polls. There are only 17 Sunni Arab lawmakers in the 275-member parliament. Once the presidential council is appointed it must name a prime minister, who will choose a cabinet. Shi'ites and Kurds have agreed that Islamist Shi'ite leader Ibrahim Jaafari will be prime minister, taking over from secular Shi'ite Iyad Allawi.