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Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki works in his office in the International Zone in the center of Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday December 26, 2010. Al-Maliki collected the coalition he needed to form a new government on December 21, 2010, which allowed him to start his second term even though his political bloc lost to Iyad Allawi’s rival bloc in the March 7th parliamentary elections.
Baghdad, Iraq

Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki works in his office in the International Zone in the center of Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday December 26, 2010. Al-Maliki collected the coalition he needed to form a new government on December 21, 2010, which allowed him to start his second term even though his political bloc lost to Iyad Allawi’s rival bloc in the March 7th parliamentary elections.