	iraq replaces oil minister in big govt shuffle iraqi president saddam hussein carried out his first major government shakeup in five years tonight naming a new oil minister in shuffling three posts one minister was dropped in the shuffle announced in a presidential decree it gave no reason for the changes in the government of the arab baath socialist party which has ruled iraq since a revolution in the decree named the head of the iraqi national oil company inoc isam abdul rahim al chalaby to take over as oil minister replacing qassem ahmed taqi taqi appointed oil minister in the last significant government reorganization in was moved to be minister of heavy industries reuter 
