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Article: Iraqi government dismisses Sunni group's threats to quit.(Front)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- July 28, 2007
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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 ...