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Iraq needs new government, says former PM Allawi


WASHINGTON (AFP) - Iraqi former prime minister Iyad Allawi on Monday blasted
the current government for being ill-equipped to halt the slide toward
all-out chaos, and urged a nonsectarian replacement of the regime.

Allawi, whose mixed Sunni-Shiite Iraqi National List this month joined a
boycott of the government led by Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, told
US National Public Radio that the present government is fueling the problems
ravaging the country.


Allawi, who once plotted a CIA-backed coup against former president Saddam
Hussein, is widely viewed as a darling of US powerbrokers and has
relentlessly portrayed himself as a secular strongman capable of reuniting
the country.

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Alawi had a lower approval rating among Iraqis than Saddam, he got a tiny
percentage of votes in the elections, and here he is poised to take over
Iraq, just like planned by the neocon/Pentagon axis.

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