Iraq Shi'ite blocs to join forces in parliament

2010/05/04 17:07:34 @Reuters: World News

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's two big Shi'ite political coalitions, one led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and one whose leaders have close ties to Iran, agreed on Tuesday on an alliance to form a single bloc in parliament, officials said. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=lhVEqhUtn4k:NIFpQvNcl84:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=lhVEqhUtn4k:NIFpQvNcl84:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=lhVEqhUtn4k:NIFpQvNcl84:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=lhVEqhUtn4k:NIFpQvNcl84:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=lhVEqhUtn4k:NIFpQvNcl84:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/lhVEqhUtn4k" height="1" width="1"/
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