Iraq's New Government And Social Outcome Of War
On April 29, 2005, officials from Iraq's six neighbors, Jordan, Syria, Kuwait, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and regional Egypt, met in Istanbul to welcome the formation of a Iraq's new government and give the emerging democratic process a boost despite regional fears of instability in the country.
After nearly three months of haggling over key government posts, Iraq's National Assembly finally approved the country's first popularly elected government on April 28.
Iraq's neighbors are extremely concerned that the violence in Iraq could destabilize the region and remain divided concerning Iraq's future.
The officials drafted a "communique" to be adopted by the ministers and carefully watch by the Untied States and international community, that expressed support for the new government, stressing the political integrity and sovereignty of Iraq.
Sunni-dominated neighbors, including Egypt, Jordan, and the Gulf countries, are concerned that Sunni under-representation will sidestep the once powerful minority and undermine their influence in Iraq.
The increasingly vocal Shiite majority in Iraq is of great concern for many of Iraq's neighbors.
While other countries, such as Turkey, Iran and Syria, are concerned that the strong influence of Iraqi Kurds in the government could enable them to push for an independent state, thus, encouraging Kurds in neighboring countries to take a similar path.
The presidency, Foreign Ministry and approximately half dozen other ministerial posts are held by Iraqi Kurds, and is a particular concern in Turkey, which has been battling Turkish Kurdish rebels in its own southeast since 1984, resulting in 37,000 dead.
Even before it started work, Iraq's new cabinet was under pressure as Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari tried to complete the government line-up during a surge of car bombings and other insurgent attacks.
On April 30, six people were killed and thirty wounded in four separate car bombings, three of them targeting army patrols.
A suicide driver in east Baghdad ploughed into a joint Iraqi-U.S. convoy, killing two civilians, a day after a wave of nine car bombs.
The attack was claimed by the group of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al Qaeda's top man in Iraq.
Then a second car bomb exploded outside a building holding a meeting of senior Sunni leaders from the Council on National Dialogue, killing one guard and injuring ten people.
The council is one of a number of Sunni groups that have been involved in talks with the new government on forming a new cabinet.
Another car explosion targeted a U.S. military convoy east of the capital, killing two civilian, while a fourth car bomb in Mosul aimed at Iraqi police, killed a one civilian.
Two days earlier, four U.S. soldiers were killed in a bomb attack in Tall Afar, bringing the number of American troops killed in Iraq since the 2003 invasion to 1,572.
And the death toll of Iraqi civilians runs into the tens of thousands.
On April 30, 2005, the Associated Press reported that insurgents set off at least seventeen bombs in Iraq, killing at least fifty people, including three U.S. soldiers.
The series of attacks were aimed at shaking Iraq's newly formed government and in an audio tape by one of America's most-wanted insurgents, Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, warned President Bush that here was more bloodshed to come.
Wounding 114 Iraqis and seven Americans, the well-coordinated attacks came as political leaders were trying to cub the insurgency by including all of Iraq's main religious and ethnic groups into an uncertain new Shiite-dominated government that was to take office May 3rd.
The majority of the bombing targets were Iraqi security forces and police, whom insurgents accuse of collaborating with the Americans.
An association of Sunni Muslim clerics believed to have ties with the insurgency, said that there is little prospect for peace as long as American forces remain in Iraq.
Head of the Association of Muslim Scholars, Harith al-Dhari, told Turkey's Anatolia news agency, "We don't believe that the government will solve the problems of an occupied Iraq. We don't trust the government. We don't see hope because the occupation is continuing."
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