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To: John Carragher who wrote (111542)	4/28/2005 6:33:23 AM
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Iraq Assembly Approves Cabinet Thursday, April 28, 2005 PHOTOS Click image to enlarge STORIES BACKGROUND •Five Iraqis Die in Attacks•Lawyer: Saddam in 'Good Health, High Spirits'•Zarqawi Laptop Treasure Trove of Terror Info•Iraqi Lawmaker Assassinated•Rumsfeld: Italian Shooting Probe Not Complete•Insurgent Attacks in Iraq Increase BAGHDAD, Iraq — The interim National Assembly (search) approved by show of hands Thursday a partial Cabinet, including 27 ministers and five acting ministers, ushering in Iraq's first elected government since the fall of Saddam Hussein (search). The Cabinet was approved by 180 lawmakers out of the 185 present in the 275-member parliament, Speaker Hajim al-Hassani (search) announced to applause. Prime Minister-designate Ibrahim al-Jaafari submitted a broad-based Cabinet, including members of Iraq's main Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish factions. But disputes remained over two deputy prime ministers' slots and mself will be acting defense minister, a position that was supposed to go to a Sunni Arab. Ahmad Chalabi, a former Pentagon favorite from al-Jaafari's Shiite-dominated alliance, will be one of four deputy prime ministers and acting oil minister. Kurdish official and former Vice President Rowsch Nouri Shaways will be another deputy and acting electricity minister. Al-Jaafari has struggled to reconcile the competing demands of Iraq's myriad factions since Jan. 30 elections. Shiite leaders rejected his initial choices for a Sunni deputy prime minister and defense minister because of suspicions they had ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, which brutally repressed Iraqi's majority Shiites and Kurds.