School of Politics and International Relations

The Chicago Tribune

4 March 2011

The Chicago Tribune, 

 Iraqi politician Iyad Allawi has refused to head a strategic council in parliament arguing that the Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has broken his promises about its purpose. says these comments are probably a move by the Prime Minister’s opponents to unseat him. He says: “I think Maliki will see it as a threat, partly because he is deeply paranoid and partly because it is.”