Baghdad Correspondent for the BBC
Baghdad Correspondent for the BBC
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Andrew North
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FROM Andrew North
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President Meets with Iraq's Sunni VP as Violence Continues From Washington today comes news that there will be no change in Iraq policy , at least this year. Meantime, in Saudi Arabia more than 30 prominent Sunni clerics said Shiites are taking over Iraq and called on Sunnis around the Middle East to support the insurgency. In Iraq itself, dozens of day laborers from the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City where killed and wounded by car bombs.
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