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Kurdish official: lawmakers to discuss al-Maliki (AP)

October 2nd, 2010

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2006 file photo, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki walks through central Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad. Aides to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr say his powerful political bloc has agreed to support the Iraqi prime minister's bid to stay in power and end a nearly seven-month political impasse. The backing of al-Sadr would push the Shiite-led coalition of Nouri al-Maliki close to the needed parliamentary majority to form a new government. Iraq has been in political limbo since March elections, won by a Sunni-backed bloc but without enough seats to oust al-Maliki.(AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani, File)AP - Kurdish lawmakers began Saturday to plot their course as Iraq’s kingmakers with enough seats to secure a second term for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and press key demands including a greater say over the oil riches in the country’s north.


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