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    Iraq offers advice to Libyan leader on democracy

    AP – Thu, Oct 6, 2011

    BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's prime minister offered to help Libya, a country with a shared history of dictatorship, build its fledgling democracy during a meeting Thursday with Libya's visiting prime minister, said an Iraqi spokesman.

    Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told his Libyan counterpart, Mahmoud Jibril, who was on a one-day visit to Iraq, that Baghdad is will to ready to lend support on writing a constitution and holding elections, said Ali al-Moussawi, a spokesman for the Iraqi leader.

    "Al-Maliki expressed Iraq's readiness to support Libya especially because there are similarities between the Iraqi and Libyan experiences, where the two countries got rid of dictatorships," al-Moussawi said.

    Iraq has held several democratic elections with wide participation across the political, religious and sectarian spectrum since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion ousted Saddam Hussein.

    But there are key differences between Iraq and Libya.

    Libyans themselves, although supported by a NATO air campaign, were the driving force that ousted Moammar Gadhafi from power; in Iraq, U.S. troops toppled Saddam. Also, Libya does not have the same sectarian divide between Sunni and Shiite that fueled much of the violence that crippled Iraq and brought it to the brink of civil war.

    Jibril's visit is the first by any member of the senior Libyan leadership to Iraq since Moammar Gadhafi's fall and could indicate a significant change from relations during the Gadhafi era. The former Libyan dictator broke off relations with Iraq in 2003.

    Jibril said Libya wants to send an ambassador soon to Iraq and al-Maliki said Iraq wants to send an ambassador to Libya as well, al-Moussawi said.

     

    8 comments

    • Gonina
      Gonina  •  7 mths ago
      iraqi please please just help yourself nothing els if you can't help yourself than just forget okkk
    • m p
      m p  •  7 mths ago
      there is a fungus in the jungle that takes over the insect brain...so that a fungus can grow....you can quote on that!
    • George W
      George W  •  7 mths ago
      Iraq has as much democracy as USA invaded troops allow on it!
    • Brenda M
      Brenda M  •  7 mths ago
      salaam,
      Fugitives are criminals whom took without wisedome in the steps and certainty of college masters degree of REAL ESTATE still says GRANTORSHIP shall not bare foreign shoes
      USA and ISARELI both foreign to Palestine origins Linage Tree service civil oath side,
      PENTAGON and supporters adopted nick name kingdome not attached to linage Tree system
      not to deny wisedome system of Palestine
    • FREDERICK2660
      FREDERICK2660  •  7 mths ago
      ##35128.10/07/11
      BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's prime minister offered to help Libya, a country with a shared history of dictatorship, build its fledgling democracy during a meeting

      What is on offer there's no rush to buy
      As wisdom on the breezes does not fly,
      Yet breezy talk about what isn't there
      Contests the current flowing in the air:
      Democracy comes just in time to die.

      © 2011, Frederick2660
      All Rights Reserved
    • supreme
      supreme  •  7 mths ago
      shouldnt the headline be that iraq gives libya tips on sucking #$%$,and letting most of your resources leave your country,,,and to get used to having a civil war running between your people,,,
    • George
      George  •  7 mths ago
      This is the "Joke of the Decade!" The Pot telling the Kettle how Not to be Black?
      Iraq doesn't even have a Democracy yet and it wants to tell Libya a few things?
    • Adaptive
      Adaptive  •  7 mths ago
      USA = Union of Satanic Aliens.
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