Iraq govt orders arrest of top Sunni cleric

Demands are growing in Washington to start bringing troops home, and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and U.S. commanders face a race against time to build Iraqi security forces capable of stifling the sectarian strife between Sunnis and Maliki's majority Shi'ite Muslims that is pushing Iraq towards civil war. Fissures are also opening in the six-month-old national unity government after dozens of civil servants were seized by men in police uniform on Tuesday. The Sunni minister whose employees were abducted is boycotting the cabinet until they are found...

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