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BAGHDAD — After months of infighting, Iraq’s parliament Sunday elected a prominent Sunni Arab Islamist as speaker. Ayad al-Samarrai, who heads the parliament’s main Sunni bloc, has been a vocal critic of Iraq’s Shiite Muslim prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, who recently rebranded himself as a secularist. Al-Samarrai’s election could aggravate ethnic and sectarian tensions or it could help ease the friction between Sunni and Shiite Arabs.
