Maliki’s options rapidly shrinking

As Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki wrapped up a two-day visit to Syria aimed at appeasing the Arab neighborhood and the Sunnis within Iraq, a criminal court in Baghdad was bringing charges of genocide against 15 of Saddam Hussein’s strongmen.

Judge Mohammad Uraibi, head of the Higher Criminal Court, accused former senior Iraqi officials of mass murder against Shi’ites in southern and central Iraq in 1991. The trials made it on to the inner pages of Al-Hayat, the leading pan-Arab daily newspaper
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