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Last week’s turmoil in Iraqi political realm occasioned by the increasing influence of the Islamic State (former ISIS) in northern Iraq, led to the untimely exit of Nuri al-Maliki as Iraqi Prime Minister. With that emerged Haider al-Abadi, who was nominated on August 11 by raqi President Fouad Masoum Abadi. “The country is in your hands,” said Masoum, a Kurd, to the 62-year-old Shiite politician.
Abadi, a Baghdad-born, electrical engineer-turned-politician was well-known (and well-liked) by US officials in Iraq ever since his 2003 return from exile in Britain. “Haider al-Abadi,” a leaked US cable noted, was “one of the few trained economists in the COR [Council of Representatives – or parliament].”
Abadi was re-elected to parliament in the March 7, 2010 poll. And chaired several parliamentary committees and served as deputy speaker.
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