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'''Nouri Maliki''' (1950- ) is the current Prime Minister of [[Iraq]]. He is a [[Shiite]] [[Muslim]. After the rise of the Baathist party in the 1970's, Maliki was involved in underground resistance efforts to topple the regime of [[Saddam Hussein]]. He fled the country in 1980 and settled as a refuge in [[Syria]]. More then twenty years later, after the [[United States]] liberation of [[Iraq]], he returned and was part of the writing of the country's new constitution.

'''Nouri Maliki''' (1950- ) is the current Prime Minister of [[Iraq]]. He is a [[Shiite]] [[Muslim]. After the rise of the Baathist party in the 1970's, Maliki was involved in underground resistance efforts to topple the regime of [[Saddam Hussein]]. He fled the country in 1980 and settled as a refuge in [[Syria]]. More then twenty years later, after the [[United States]] liberation of [[Iraq]], he returned and was part of the writing of the country's new constitution<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4932468.stm</ref>. He was chosen to be Iraq's prime minster in the April, 2006.