Sunday, October 21, 2007

Ex-top envoy calls Iraqi government a failure

Former ambassador says country ‘falling apart,’ blames ministers, U.S.

Contributed by Fatima

"WASHINGTON - A principal architect of Iraq’s interim constitution, who resigned in August as one of the country’s top diplomats, has laid out a devastating critique of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the U.S. occupation, telling NBC News that, functionally, “there is no Iraqi government.”

The diplomat, Feisal Amin Istrabadi, said in his first interview since stepping down as Iraq’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations that “this government has got to go.”....."

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