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Bush to meet with top Iraqi Shiite leader
By Greg Gordon and John Walcott
McClatchy Newspapers
(MCT)
WASHINGTON - President Bush will hold an Oval Office meeting with a key Iraqi Shiite leader Monday amid a scramble to bolster the strife-torn nation's unity government before it collapses in civil war.
The meeting with Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution, is considered an effort to boost support for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, with whom Bush met in Jordan last Thursday. Al-Hakim is a leading opponent of anti-U.S. Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who controls the most powerful bloc in Iraq's ruling coalition.
The administration hopes that by urging Hakim and other al-Sadr rivals to support Maliki more forcefully, they can reign in the growing radical influence of al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia, two senior administration officials said Sunday.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/16157012.htm
Seems like tradin' one moola for another,,,,,,
Shuck-n-jive...