Photo: #Nuri al-Maliki, Prime Minister of Iraq, speaks to a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill Wednesday. Al-Maliki thanked the United States for ousting former dictator Saddam Hussein, and hailed the "new Iraq that is emerging from the ashes of dictatorship."

War in Iraq

Iraqi prime minister thanks U.S. for its support

Broadcast: Midmorning, 07/26/2006, 10:06 a.m.

Nuri al-Maliki, Prime Minister of Iraq, thanked the United States for ousting former dictator Saddam Hussein and hailed the "new Iraq that is emerging from the ashes of dictatorship." Maliki spoke to a joint session of Congress Wednesday.

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