Late govt. formation blamed for 2011 budget delay – official

ANBAR / IraqiNews.com: A local official in the Anbar Provincial Council warned on Saturday that the late formation of a new government would cause delay in adopting the 2011 state budget. “The formation of a new government might take four months more and we hop there would be links among the political blocs to maintain the state’s higher interests,” Muzher Hassan al-Mulla told IraqiNews.com news agency. Anbar lies 110 km west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (P) 2