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Iraq to call new parliament into session
(AP)
Updated: 2006-03-06 19:57

Iraq's president said Monday that he would call the country's new parliament into session for the first time on March 12, staring the clock on a 60-day period during which the legislature must elect a new head of state and sign off on a prime minister and Cabinet.


Iraqi president Jalal Talabani, during a meeting with Austrian counselor in Iraq Codren Hareber, unseen, in Baghdad on Sunday March 5, 2006. Pressure mounted Sunday on Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari to give up his bid for a new term amid anger over the recent surge in sectarian killings that has complicated already snarled negotiations on a new Iraqi government.[AP]

The constitution requires parliament to hold its first meeting no later than four weeks after the vote was certified, which occurred Feb. 12, nearly two months after the election was held.

"We will call today for holding the meeting on the 12th of this month because it is the last day that the constitution allows us to hold the meeting of the new parliament," President Jalal Talabani told reporters.

Iraq is in the midst of a political crisis, with its many parties deeply divided over the main Shiite bloc's decision to name Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari to a new term.

A coalition of Sunni, Kurdish and some secular politicians began a drive last week to block al-Jaafari from continuing as head of government.

On Monday, Explosions killed at least 10 people and wounded 36 in the Iraqi capital and a northern city Monday, ending a relative lull in bombings over the past days.

A car bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol exploded near a market in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, killing at least six people and injuring 23, police said. Those killed were all civilians; four policemen were among the injured.

Baqouba, a mixed Sunni-Shiite city, has been at the forefront of a wave of sectarian and other violence since the Feb. 22 bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in Samarra.

In eastern Baghdad, a suicide car bomber struck a police patrol near al-Mustansiriyah University, killing two policemen and wounding three, said police Capt. Ahmed Qassim.

Another bomb exploded as a police patrol drove through the northern Azamiyah neighborhood, killing a policeman and a civilian bystander, said Interior Ministry official Maj. Falah al-Mohammedawi. Three people were wounded, including another policeman, he said.

A car bomb targeting another police patrol exploded in Baghdad's downtown Nidhal Street, wounding at least seven people, police said.

A roadside bomb exploded outside the blast walls surrounding the Buratha Shiite mosque in the northern Oteifiyah neighborhood, causing no casualties, police said.

Two roadside bombs went off in Baghdad's dangerous Dora neighborhood. One targeted an Interior Ministry patrol, wounding one commando, police said. A second attack struck a U.S. patrol, but police said there did not appear to be any casualties. There was no immediate comment from the military.
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