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President Bush yesterday bluntly told the leader of Iraq's largest Shi'ite party that the United States is not satisfied with efforts by Iraqi political leaders to stop sectarian violence, which has spiraled out of control in recent months.
The Oval Office meeting came on a day when the White House announced that the president will meet Thursday with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, his closest ally in the Iraq war. That meeting will come just a day after Mr. Bush receives recommendations from a bipartisan commission charged with coming up with solutions to the nearly four-year-long war in Iraq.See the full content of this document
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Bush Presses Shi'ite Leader On Violence
After his hourlong meeting yesterday with Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, who heads the largest bloc in Iraq's parliament and is a leading opponent of anti-U.S. Shi'ite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the president said political leaders must...
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