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...Where Jaafari had been branded as passive, aloof and high-handed by his critics, Maliki - who has taken a lead in de-Baathification efforts that have alienated many Sunnis - is deemed to be a dogged negotiator who doesn't easily change his position. U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalizad praised him as a tough-minded, independent leader who is saying all the right things. Then again, it is easy to forget that Washington was loquacious in its praise for Jaafari less than a year...
...White House can take any logistical steps to help American reporters and other journalists to gather news at a time when it is often too dangerous for them to leave their compounds. The officials say Schmidt's trip is at the request of the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalizad, but is supported at the highest levels of the White House. "We want to see if there's a disconnect between what people in the United States are seeing on their televisions and in their newspapers, and the reality on the ground," a senior administration official said...
...checkpoint, killing two soldiers, the taxi driver and himself. The attack coincided with a conference of Iraqi opposition organizations on a post-Saddam political order, attended by Zalmay Khalilzad, President Bush's special envoy to the Iraqi opposition. Though believed to have been simply coincidental, the timing was poignant: Khalizad had come to address the first umbrella gathering of mostly-exiled opposition groups to be held inside Iraq...
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