Iraq's interim PM gets to work amid confusion over how he was chosen
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=526370
By Justin Huggler in Baghdad and Raymond Whitaker
30 May 2004
Iyad Allawi, Iraq's newly nominated interim prime minister, set about
forming a government team yesterday amid international astonishment
and local scepticism at how his appointment came about.
Names of appointees spilled out in Baghdad yesterday, with Adnan
Pachachi - like Mr Allawi a member of the outgoing Iraqi Governing
Council - tipped as interim President. But the confusion that
surrounded Mr Allawi's nomination on Friday by the American-appointed
IGC continued, with one senior official in the US occupation authority
in Baghdad calling him "just a nominee", even though the White House
and the United Nations have endorsed him.
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