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Iraqi leaders maneuver to replace prime minister
June 20, 2014
Alarmed over the Sunni insurgent mayhem convulsing Iraq, the country's political leaders are actively jockeying to replace Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Thursday.
The political leaders have been encouraged by what they see as newfound U.S. support for replacing al-Maliki with someone more acceptable to Iraq's Sunnis and Kurds, as well as to the Shiite majority, the officials said.