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<![CDATA[Peaceful Coup Underway In Baghdad? Al-Maliki Is Threatened from Within]]>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-hayden/peaceful-coup-underway-in_b_35290.html
A special to the Huffington Post
A peaceful coup is being attempted in Baghdad, seeking to replace Nouri al-Maliki with a coalition between the Sunni political leader Saleh al-Mutlak and the Shiite insurgent leader Moqtada al-Sadr.
In the background are calls from Iraq's leading Shiite and Sunni clerics for an American withdrawal timetable.
Al-Mutlak, an ex-Baathist who heads the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue has eleven seats in parliament which, combined with Sadr's twenty...]]>
2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00