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CARETAKER GOVERNMENT
IGe leaves mark on new
The applause was long and
loud but there were some
notable absentees yesterday
when Iyad Allawi, Iraq's
prime minister designate,
announced the much-antici- ,
pated new caretaker government
that will assume Iraqi
sovereignty on June 30.
Most notably absent was
Adnan Pachachi, the former
foreign minister who was
UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi's
favourite candidate to
become Iraq's first new president
in 25years. He had earlier
fallen on his sword after
recognising that he had lost
the support of colleagues on
the Governing Council.
Mr Pachachi was the victim
,of a whispering campaign,
mounted late in the
day, alleging liberal views
and an overly close relationship
with the US..the occupying
power in Iraq.
Although the USappointed
council dissolved
itself yesterday, it did
so only after having secured
the prime minister and
president posts for its own
members. Mr Allawi, a secular
Shia, was nominated
prime minister last Friday,
though he is not believed' to
have been Mr Brahimi's
favourite.
Sheikh Ghazi al-Yawar, a
45-year-oldSunni Arab with
strong tribal links, had been
the last president of the Governing
Council. Yesterday he
became Iraq's first postwar
president. He will be assisted
by two vice-presidents, a
Kurd and a religious Shia
Muslim leader.
The presidency has been
billed as only a figurehead
job, but Mr Yawar is likely
to play an important ,role in
one of the two important
streams that characterise Mr
Allawi's new government.
That stream is an alliance
of tribal leaders and former
'governors, includiQg the
new ministers of defence and
interior, who will be dominated
by Mr Allawi and who
will try to deal with Iraq's
vicious security problems.
They will be joined by at
least one of the ministers
without portfolio who is also
,a tribal leader, and Iraq's
new intelligence chief -
Mohammad Abdullah al-
Sbahwani, a, former, heliCopv
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By James Drummond in BqhcIad
Iraq: the interim government
':pr~~ident: ~haliai~Y~w.ar ;'
, .sunf!iMuslim néphewot'the' ,
~Ieadér of thé Shainmar tribe,
'ànd Governing Council '
, member who chaired the '",
,group for pârt of May. Born in ' ,
, MosUl, he trained as à civil' "
'engi!leer in Saudi Arabia arid,
,thé US;and waùecently Xic~: .
president of the. Hicap ,.,' • '
, Tech!lQlogy Company iri"
Riyadh, Saudi Aràbi~" '
Prime minister: Iyad Allawi
Governing Council member and chairman of its security committee.
Formerly exiled leader of the Iraqi National Accord, a CIA-backed,
group bringing together ex-Ba'athists and military commanders
opposed to Saddam Hussein. A neurologist and businessman, he hails
from a wealthy Baghdad family
with a strong political
heritage - his grandfather
helped negotiate Iraqi
independence from
Britain in the 1920s -
and survived an
assassination attempt
in London in 197B
Iraqregime
) :,vi~ president: ' ."""
,16..ahitri al-Jaafar! '~.- .
',' GOverning Council ' '
, memller, representing the •
.D~aw~ I?'Irtf - Iralrs ,.'
'oldest Islamist movement."
EXiledto Iran and then' ',:',
London aftér the partY' ,
, w~banned by' Saddam: .'
Hussein in 19BO.Graduated
,in medicine from Mosùl .
• Univenity
. ,
-Deputy prime minister
for national security~,
, Barham Saleh
" Primé ministerof the
, Patriotic Union of
"Kurdistan
., administration, based in
, Suleimaniya. Trained in '
. ' engineering and
computer science In the lii(;' he was PUK ' '
• spokesman in Was~irigton:tor 10 yèars before
returning to the autonomous Kurdish region of
northern Iraq. Survived an assassination attempt
in Suleimaniya in 2002 "
F~rèi&n minister. ',. , :"
Hoshyar- Zebari, . "
COQtinl!es in the role he: ' . , /
. 'filled under the,US,lèd '"
. ocCupation. Senior'
"mèinber of the Kurdistan, "
Democratic Party, who .
served as its . ', ,
representative in EuroPe'
,-before managing its,international rélations office
from 19B8-.2003.Born il) Aqràh, northerr;1 Iraq, he ' - .
,graduated from jordanUniversity inAlT1Jl1anand
.completed a master's in the UK
Oil minister: Thamir .
Ghadban ,
'A technocrat who was',
head of planning in the oil.";
ministry under Saddam '
Hussein ànd had been
expected to take the oil,' ,
pOrtfolio under the US- ",
led occupation - a post
:which instead weilt tolbrahiri1 Mohaminad Bahr al-
",Uloum;son ota prominentShia cleric. Educatedin
; thé UK,he has wor,ked for the Iraqi Ministry of Oil '
:,. since 1973 and written numerous technical
;; reports on the Iraqi oil fields
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