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Iraqi PM Cancels Visit To Tehran To Receive Obama in Baghdad

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki unexpectedly cancelled a scheduled visit to Tehran, which was to follow an official visit to Turkey.

Reliable sources explained that Maliki’s sudden return to Baghdad has to do with the possibility that U.S. president-elect Barack Obama might be visiting U.S. troops in Iraq during Christmas.

Source: Al-Wasat, Iraq, December 24, 2008

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