Second Iraq interim minister resigns

[Barrett808]

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi interim human rights minister Abdel Basit Turki has resigned, a day after the interior minister quit, senior coalition spokesman Dan Senor told a news conference.

Senor did not mention the reason for the resignation.

On Thursday, interim Interior Minister Nuri Badran announced that he had submitted his resignation after US overseer Paul Bremer expressed dissatisfaction with the performance of his ministry.

The resignations come amid widespread protests against US-led coalition offensives across the country against Shiite and Sunni insurgents.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=afp/iraq_politics_resign

[Beetwasher]

1. Getting Out While the Gettings "Good"??

Our hanpicked stooges are fleeing the debacle...I guess they value their lives...

[54anickel]

2. No reason given. Do you suppose it is in response to the calls of

the Iraqi citizens. Can't report that though. That's appeasment to the insurgents. :eyes:

I hope his resignation is based upon principle, it would be a powerful statement to the CPA indeed!

[wryter2000]

3. That's the only ethical thing for them to do

How can they stay on when the US is killing civillians? Besides, the minute we're out of the country, all of Iraq will treat them as collaborators.

[qanda]

4. You mean they had a human rights minister?

Now, that is shocking!

[NewYorkerfromMass]

5. votes of no confidence

Bush is a loser and everything he touches turns to shit.

[Just Me]

6. As if the downward spiral outside the CPA isn't bad enough,...

,...it now appears that the CPA is also becoming fractured.

Exactly how bad does this neocon endeavor have to get before we change course?

*sigh*

[Jazzgirl]

7. Looks like he talked to Bremer.

Sounds like Bremer told Badran that he didn't think the interior minister and the defense minister should both be lead by Shia. Sounds like Bremer is on a roll...idiot!

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/99599502-4246-4876-A020-566B5F6970EE.htm

Iraqi Interior Minister Nuri Badran has resigned, saying he had been told that the US occupation administrator thought the defence and interior ministries should not both be led by Shia.

Badran, a Shia, told a news conference on Thursday that he had spoken to administrator Paul Bremer.

"He (Bremer) said that the problem was that the interior and the defence ministers could not both be Shia... So I am resigning my position and I hope that by my decision, balance will be restored to the ministries in Iraq," he said.

[markses]

8. The Human Rights minister MUST resign

When the human rights of the citizens of Iraq are being trampled all over the country.

Of course he resigned. What else could you do?

[Prodemsouth]

9. That Monkey and his glorified organ grinder need to go now. I have had

enough!

[modaya]

10. welcome to the reality before he gets killed and linched. on the bagdad st

Life is more presious then any puppet job in the us led regime

[Aidoneus]

11. Iraqi Hizbu'llah (no relation) leader suspended his as well

'abd al-Karim al-Mohammedawi, who met with Sadr recently, suspended his seat on the puppet council due to the violence.

He's known for leading the most effective resistance to Saddam's government from the marshes on the border with Iran, and before taking a seat on the puppet council he left open the question of open resistance if the occupyers stayed around too long.