Kurds Playing Key Role in Iraqi Politics

NPR | By Renee Montagne

Published March 3, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

After January's elections in Iraq, the interim government is starting to form. Barham Salih, a Kurdish member of parliament, discusses the behind-the-scenes political wheeling and dealing of the provisional government.

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