Kurds boycott Cabinet meetings
Iraq’s Kurds say they will ask politicians to stay away from Cabinet meetings. They are asking Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to step down and blame him for not stopping the Sunni militant offensive that is sweeping through the country. Deputy Prime Minister Roz Nouri Shawez, the highest level Kurdish official in the government:
Such statements are meant to hide the big security fiasco by blaming others, and we announce our boycott of Cabinet meetings.