Kurds dance in streets as Talabani named premier
Then move succeeded in reaching out to the nation's long-repressed Kurdish minority and bringing the country closer to its first democratically-elected government in 50 years.
Ousted members of the country's former regime, including toppled leader Saddam Hussein, watched the event on TV in their prison cells, Human Rights Minister Bakhtiyar Amin told Al-Arabiya television.
