The Challenges Of Terrorism - Iraq, Part 50- The Next Prime Minister.

The PM-Designate of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Dr Barham Saleh, on Oct. 2 told the Saudi-owned pan-Arab TV al-'Arabiya the next national legislative elections, due to be held on Jan. 1, 2010, were crucial for the unity of Iraq. Now based in Erbil, the capital of Kurdistan, Dr Saleh was until recently the deputy PM of Iraq charged with the country's economy including the petroleum sector.

There is a new geo-strategic game in the Greater Middle East (GME), by far the biggest energy reservoir in the world and now the most crucial factor to the future of the global economy. This is because the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) - in this order of importance to the global economy: the US, China, France, the UK and Russia) - and Germany (the 5+1) are unanimous in fighting global terrorism.

This unanimity, with both China and Russia having recently faced revived challenges from the Neo-Salafi insurgent movement, stems from the fact that these now are key players in the Group of 20 (G-20) economic powers whose Sept. 24-25 summit at Pittsburgh (USA) took important decisions to end the global recession and set a multi-polar order for world economics. Though still vague, the summit's decisions are intended to set the rules of the monetary, fiscal and financial elements of this new order.