Kurdish Leader Jalal Talabani Elected As New President Of Iraq

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - APRIL 6: Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani delivers a speech after the National Assembly's meeting in which he was elected as the new President of Iraq on April 6, 2005 in Baghdad, Iraq. Talibani's deputies will be former President Ghazi Yawer, a Sunni Arab, and Finance Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, who is Shia. The National Assembly are likely to name Shiite leader Ibrahim Jaafari as Prime Minister, clearing the way for lawmakers to begin focusing their attention on writing a permanent constitution. (Photo by Ali Haider-Pool/Getty Images)