State Department indicates Nouri al-Maliki’s days numbered as Iraq prime minister

The Washington Times, 24 July 2014 – The State Department on Thursday all but showed Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki the door, saying he had been particularly hard to work with.
“We had extreme frustrations with the Iraqi government, particularly over the last year,” Brett McGurk , deputy assistant secretary of State for Iraq and Iran, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Then Mr. McGurk seemed to suggest Mr. Maliki’s days as prime minister are numbered.
Military analysts have deemed Mr. al-Maliki a failure in bringing Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds into a coalition, and in waging the current war.