Amidst the violence, Iraq’s Parliament approved the new government’s final six cabinet seats. The minister of oil will be Shiite Muhammed Bahr Uloum. He held the same post in the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council. A Sunni named Sadoun Dulame was picked to become defense minister. He is a former security police official who defected from Iraq in 1991. Still vacant is the human rights minister seat — a Sunni was selected for the job but he declined to take it.