With war on its doorstep, Iraq taps a political outsider to become prime minister
by editors@theworld.org (Joshua Coe) from The World: Latest Stories on (#75ASJ)
After a long political impasse, Ali al-Zaidi has been tapped to become Iraq's new prime minister. A wealthy oligarch, al-Zaidi is seen as both a compromise candidate, but also a political outsider. The World's Host Marco Werman learned more from Hamzeh Hadad, an Iraqi political analyst with the Center for a New American Security, a Washington-based think tank.