Article: IRAQ: SHIITES OPEN `UNITY' TALKS WITH RIVAL SUNNIS, KURDS.(News)

Shiite leaders have launched talks with Sunni and Kurdish politicians on a national unity government, proposing four candidates to be the next prime minister, a Shiite official said Wednesday, nearly six weeks after Iraq's parliamentary elections.

The talks came amid a spate of sectarian violence, including the killing of a prominent Sunni Arab cleric, which threatens to disrupt the forming of the new government.

Also, a Marine was killed by small-arms fire Tuesday in Karmah, 50 miles west of Baghdad, the military said, raising the number of U.S. military personnel killed since the war began in 2003 to at least 2,236.

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