Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks to the media after a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on October 20, 2009. UPI/Aude Guerrucci/Pool 
BAGHDAD, April 11 (UPI) — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has done “great wrong” to his Dawa Party and must be removed from the political group, an Iraqi leader said.
Maliki is struggling to form a new government more than four months after securing a second term in office. His second term followed a divisive political row that followed parliamentary elections in March 2010.
Salim al-Husni, a leading figure in the Iraqi Dawa Party, said the political group was prepared to hold a general conference soon to discuss Maliki’s removal from the party. Husni told the pan-Arab daily newspaper Asharq al-Awsat that Maliki would be removed because of his “abuse of the principles and ideas adopted by the Islamic Dawa Party.”
Husni complained that Maliki was using the Dawa Party to secure a position of power, which went against the principles of a party founded on serving the interests of the people
“We will call for Maliki’s removal, because he has done great wrong and extensive harm to the party’s history and to the political process,” he was quoted as saying.
His comments come as supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr vow to oppose any U.S. military presence beyond the end of the year.
U.S. and Iraqi officials said it might be possible for U.S. forces to remain in the country beyond the terms of a bilateral security agreement.
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