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Article: Calls emerge within Shiite alliance for Prime Minister al-Jaafari to step aside
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QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
04-01-2006
Dateline: BAGHDAD, Iraq
Calls emerged Saturday within the Shiite alliance for Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari to step aside as the bloc's nominee for another term as pressure mounted from Sunni Arab and Kurdish politicians for the Shiites to pick another candidate.
One prominent Shiite politician, former national security adviser Qassim Dawoud, openly called for al-Jaafari to withdraw his candidacy.
Shiite officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said others within the Shiite alliance were open to replacing al-Jaafari. But they denied media reports that the Shiite alliance had ...