Shafaq News-Baghdad
Iraqi PrimeMinister Ali al-Zaydi dismissed Sami al-Sudani from his post as adviser forborder ports and customs affairs on Friday, replacing him with Hassan al-Akeili,an informed source told Shafaq News on Thursday.
Thereshuffle extends a wave of senior appointments al-Zaydi issued this week,including appointing Adel al-Yasiri as the head of the Investment Commission,replacing Haidar Makia.
Al-Zaydialso assigned Qassem al-Aboudi to serve as acting national security adviser,succeeding Qassem al-Aaraji, and tasked Bassem al-Badri with leading theNational Intelligence Service in place of Abdul Karim al-Basri, according tothe same source.
Governor Alial-Allaq was also removed from his post, with Nizar Nasser appointed in hisplace.