Iraqi Parliament Removes Speaker

Mahmud al-Mashhadani had been involved in frequent shouting matches with other lawmakers, and colleagues had complained he was being disrespectful.

Members of parliament said the final straw came on June 10, when a Turkoman lawmaker accused al-Mashhadani's bodyguards of heavy-handedness.

Al-Mashhadani will be replaced by another member of the Iraqi Accordance Front, the main Sunni political bloc.

(Reuters, AP, AFP)

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A boy looks out from his Baghdad home (AFP)

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