Wednesday, April 06, 2005

[News] New President of Iraq - Jalal Talabani

BBC, Kurd leader named Iraq president, Wednesday, 6 April, 2005, 08:47 GMT:
Iraq's parliament has chosen Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as the country's new president after the first elections since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

His deputies will be former President Ghazi Yawer, a Sunni Arab, and Finance Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, who is Shia... more ...


(BBC / AFP)

More peace and stability to Iraq and the Middle East! But seriously, is it just me or does his name remind anyone of the Tellytubbies and the Taleban?

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