Iraq minister resigns in kidnapping dispute

[ECH1969]

Iraq's Higher Education Minister stepped down on Wednesday while at least 70 hostages from Baghdad's mass kidnapping were still missing.

"I have suspended my participation as a minister with the government until those people who have been kidnapped are released," Abed Theyab said.

He said that at least 70 people out of at least 150 are still being held, contradicting a report from a ministry spokesman that 72 victims have been released. snip.

Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki played down the kidnapping as "due to dispute between militias."

http://www.gulf-news.com/region/Iraq/10082833.html

[jpwhite]

1. good for him

A person with his level of responsibility actually is being accountable for what happens in his department? Wow, imagine what would happen if people in American government did that?

James
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[Kagemusha]

2. Then 90%+ of departments would be leaderless, actually

which is why governments institutionally shun accountability. Like Maliki's government as a whole, which feels the need to put out the wildest lies to cover up its total lack of control over this mere "militia dispute".