http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2072321
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouri_al-Maliki
Nouri Kamel al-Maliki (Arabic: نوري كامل المالكي, transliterated Nūrī Kāmil al-Mālikī; born c. 1950), also known as Jawad al-Maliki, is the Prime Minister of Iraq.
He is a Shi'a Muslim, and is the deputy leader of the Islamic Dawa Party. He was appointed to succeed the transitional government of fellow Dawa leader Ibrahim al-Jaafari.
His 37-member Cabinet was approved by the National Assembly and sworn in on May 20, 2006. Al-Maliki's constitutional mandate will last until 2010. On April 26, 2006, al-Maliki's office announced that he would thenceforth use the first name Nouri instead of his pseudonym Jawad.
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