Iraq: Attempts to remove Shahristani from the Oil Ministrynote

Some advisers to Iraqi PM Nouri Al-Maliki are said to be seeking to remove Hussein Al-Shahristani from the Oil Ministry in the new government. The following 429-word report tells the name of those advisers and tells what about the reaction of Al-Shahristani and that of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr. It also tells what about the reactions to proposals to let the Oil Ministry go to the Kurds or the Iraqiya List of former Iraqi PM Ayad Allawi.