Iyad Allawi, Iraq's newly appointed prime minister...

Iyad Allawi, Iraq's newly appointed prime minister planed to resurrect domestic intelligence services and consider reinstituting the death penalty as ways to combat the country's persistent lawlessness and violence. He also said ministers in his interim government, appointed the previous week, were considering reviving capital punishment in an effort to combat "the evil forces trying to spread their poison and damage Iraqi society."