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Article: Moussa, Sistani meet on Iraqi national reconciliation
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- October 22, 2005
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Moussa, Sistani meet on Iraqi national reconciliation
BAGHDAD, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Arab League (AL) Secretary
General Amr Moussa on Saturday traveled to Iraq's southern holy city
Najaf and met with the country's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah
Ali al-Sistani on Iraqi national reconciliation.
After the meeting at Sistani's house in Najaf, 160 km south of
Baghdad, Moussa told the press that he has won Sistani's support for
holding a Iraqi national reconciliation conference.
"I got the support, which made me glad," Moussa said, adding he
presented the Arab initiative for national reconciliation in Iraq,
which was blessed and supported by Sistani.
Meanwhile, the senior Shiite ...