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By Atul Aneja
Jalal Talabani
MANAMA, APRIL 6. After several weeks of deadlock, Iraq's newly elected Parliament has chosen Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as its new President. The outgoing President, Ghazi Al Yawer, a Sunni, and the current interim Finance Minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi, a Shia, have been named as the two Vice-Presidents. The appointment of the President is largely symbolic, but the stage has been set for the formation of government. Mr. Talabani and the two Vice-Presidents would name an executive Prime Minister. The Transitional Assembly, which was elected on January 30, is slated to write constitution by August 15. Fresh elections would be called in December. Mr. Talabani's appointment follows protracted negotiations, which mainly involved the Shia and Kurdish communities, who have got the maximum number of seats in the 275-member Assembly.
Acceptable to U.S.
The Kurds insisted on Mr. Talabani in return for the support for the Shia nominee, Ibrahim Jaffari, for the post of Prime Minister. AFP quoted the outgoing interim Foreign Minister, Hoshyar Zebari, as saying that a Cabinet headed by Mr. Jaafari would be approved "within a few days." As Parliament met, guerillas fired mortar rounds, which landed near the Ministry of Agriculture building, injuring at least one Iraqi civilian. One U.S. soldier was killed on Tuesday, while four other American personnel have died over the past two days. The total U.S. death toll till Tuesday was 1,537, according to figures provided by the Pentagon. The Iraqi interim Human Rights Minister, Bhaktiar Amin, quoting an official survey claimed that 6,000 Iraqi civilians had been killed and 16,000 wounded during the last two years of the U.S. occupation.
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