Article: Iraqi government dismisses Sunni group's threats to quit.(Front)

Byline: MEGAN GREENWELL

By Megan Greenwell and Saad al-Izzi

The Washington Post

BAGHDAD

The Shiite-led Iraqi government issued a sharp response Friday to a Sunni political bloc that is threatening to pull out of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki 's administration, saying the group's "threatening, pressuring and blackmail" will not impede Iraq's progress.

In a four-page statement, al-Maliki spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh dismissed each of the 11 demands made by the Iraqi Accordance Front , the country's largest Sunni political group. Dabbagh accused the Accordance Front of working for its own political gains rather than for the ...

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