On the governing front, the country’s new prime minister Iyad Allawi, who is a former Baathist with ties to the CIA, lashed out at the US for disbanding Saddam Hussein’s Baathist army, police and security forces. He is expected to soon announce that some Baath party members will be allowed to begin working again for the government. Meanwhile Iraq’s appointed president Ghazi Al Yawar will make his first trip to the United States as president this week to attend the G8 sumitt on Sea Island, Georgia where attendees will consider passing a resolution calling for more democratic reforms in the Arab world.