Shi'ite Scientist Likely to be Iraqi Prime Minister

Article (Washington Post)

Hussain Shahristani, a Shi'ite nuclear scientist who spent years in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison under Saddam Hussein's regime, is emerging as the leading candidate for prime minister. U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and Robert D. Blackwill, the U.S. presidential envoy to Iraq, are still working out the "complicated geometry" of dividing power among Iraq's disparate ethnic and religious factions.