Iraq’s al-Maliki rebuffs VP Joe Biden, signals move to Shiite rule

Thursday, December 22, 2011

BAGHDAD - Rebuffing a plea by the Obama administration, Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki signaled Wednesday that he’s ready to gradually drop his key partner party, the largely Sunni Iraqiya bloc, and move toward a government run by the country’s Shiite majority at the expense of minority Sunnis and Kurds.

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