Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq's foreign minister, criticized the slow pace of change in Iraq on infighting between American officials.

He tells the Financial Times: "'The problem with the coalition is that they have some experts, so-called, who still live in the 1950s, in the 1940s - some geriatric ambassadors who have a certain interpretation of how Iraq works. It has gone, it has changed,' Mr Zebari said."