from CNN.com BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A civil engineer from the northern city of Mosul was sworn in Monday to replace the assassinated leader of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council. The council selected Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawar as president after a suicide bomber killed Izzedine Salim on Monday morning in Baghdad, rattling the U.S.-backed coalition as it prepares to hand over sovereignty of the country to Iraqis on June 30. "We should all unify our efforts in our words and in our actions in chasing those criminals and paralyzing their hand and to unify our energy in working for a democratic and free Iraq," the new president said.
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