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Anti-American bloc seeks new Iraq elections

Sadrist group wants ouster of prime minister

By Jack Healy and Michael S. Schmidt

 |  New York Times  

  December 27, 2011

A powerful political bloc led by the anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called Monday to dissolve the Iraqi Parliament and to hold early elections, a potentially fatal blow to a power-sharing government that has teetered on collapse since U.S. troops withdrew a little more than a week ago. In a statement posted on its website, the Sadrists said scrapping the current government was the only way to steer Iraq out of a deepening political crisis that has put Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shi’ite, at odds with leaders representing the country’s Sunni minority.

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