Saturday, October 28, 2006

Aide: Iraqi leader using U.S. angst (AP)

Family keeps watch at the bedside of a man wounded in a rocket attack in Baghdad's Dora district Saturday Oct. 28 2006. One person was killed and 35 wounded when a rocket slammed into an outdoor market in Dora Saturday. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - After a hastily arranged video conference with George Bush Iraq's prime minister said Saturday that the U.S. president promised to move swiftly to turn over full control of the Iraqi army to the Baghdad government. A close aide to Nouri al-Maliki said later the prime minister was intentionally playing on U.S. voter displeasure with the war to strengthen his hand with Washington.


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