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  • Thousands of Sadr supporters, as you're seeing, protesting on the streets, calling Nouri al-Maliki the new Iraqi dictator.

    CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2008 2008

  • At a press conference in Washington, former Democratic party leader and presidential candidate Howard Dean called Nouri Al-Maliki a

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Abbas Rezai 2011

  • Just recently, for instance, Iraqi caretaker prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, went to Tehran to try to hammer out a deal to keep his position (see Sadr, Muqtada al -, below).

    Tom Engelhardt: Handicapping the Global Midterms: Winners and Losers Tom Engelhardt 2010

  • In an interview with Foreign Policy on Wednesday from Sulaymaniyah in Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region where the vice president has fled to evade an arrest warrant, Hashemi declared that the Iraqi political system is "drifting from building democracy to building an autocratic regime" -- and implied that Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, was becoming a new Saddam Hussein.

    Tareq al-Hashemi: Nouri al-Maliki Is Becoming A New Saddam Hussein The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Now, with the potential power to return Nouri al-Maliki (for whom he has no love) to the prime ministership, he is evidently insisting that Washington retain not a single future base in Iraq -- and the Obama administration is twitching with discomfort.

    Tom Engelhardt: Handicapping the Global Midterms: Winners and Losers Tom Engelhardt 2010

  • "Even though a state of stability has reigned here for the past few days, people are in a terrible situation," said Nouri Boukhchem, 45, a professor at Al-Wifak University in Tripoli.

    Gadhafi clamps down on protesters in Libya's capital 2011

  • In an interview with Foreign Policy on Wednesday from Sulaymaniyah in Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region where the vice president has fled to evade an arrest warrant, Hashemi declared that the Iraqi political system is "drifting from building democracy to building an autocratic regime" -- and implied that Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, was becoming a new Saddam Hussein.

    Tareq al-Hashemi: Nouri al-Maliki Is Becoming A New Saddam Hussein The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • A state of stability has reigned here for the past few days, but people are in a terrible situation, said Nouri Boukhchem, 45, a professor at Al-Wifak University in Tripoli.

    Gadhafi increasingly alone as the opposition builds 2011

  • Allawi says the re-election of Nouri al-Maliki could reopen sectarian violence.

    Iraq faces biggest test yet of democracy 2010

  • A state of stability has reigned here for the past few days, but people are in a terrible situation, said Nouri Boukhchem, 45, a professor at Al-Wifak University in Tripoli.

    Gadhafi increasingly alone as the opposition builds 2011

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