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| | IRAQ: The Transitional Government - Council on Foreign Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | On April 6, the 275 members of the transitional National Assembly elected the nation's new president, Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani, and two vice presidents, Adel Abdul Mahdi, a Shiite, and interim President Ghazi al-Yawar, a Sunni Arab. |
 | | Iraq's transitional government is a parliamentary democracy with a legislature, executive branch, and independent judiciary. |
 | | Jaafari, a 58-year-old doctor, is a Dawa leader and served as a vice president in the interim government. |
| www.cfr.org /background/background_iraq_govt.php (1669 words) |
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