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Strange bedfellows in Iraq

May 12, 2008

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IN THE FACE of American charges that Iran has been training and arming Shi'ite militias in Iraq, the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government has been issuing contradictory statements - as it strains to maintain a precarious balance between the United States and Iran, its two principal backers. President Bush made this triangular relationship possible, but he can't seem to ... (Full article: 431 words)

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