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Maliki raises possibility that Iraq might ask U.S. to leave

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki raised the possibility that his country won't sign a status of forces agreement with the United States and will ask U.S. troops to go home when their U.N. mandate to be in Iraq expires at the end of the... Full Article at Rantburg

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