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Article: Iraq's leader sets broad coalition as vote season dawns
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 2, 2009
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BAGHDAD - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced the
formation of a broad political coalition yesterday, setting the
stage for a parliamentary election campaign dominated by rival blocs
each claiming to appeal across Iraq's sectarian and ethnic divides.
Maliki, a Shi'ite seeking a second term, assembled an array of
political figures and tribal leaders in a hotel ballroom inside the
heavily fortified Green Zone and pledged that his coalition, State
of Law, would represent those "believing in the unity of Iraq and
its social diversity."
"The birth of the State of Law coalition is a historic turning
point and a qualitative development in the building of a modern
Iraqi state," Maliki told ...