Bush In Talks To Prevent Collapse Of Iraqi Coalition

Source: Deutsche Presse Agentur
Baghdad- US President George W Bush has talked with Iraqi
Vice President Tarek al-Hashimi on the latter's possible move to
bring his party out of the Iraqi government, the news agency Aswat
al-Iraq reported on Monday as violence - including a suicide attack
that killed 25 people at a funeral in Diyala province - continued.
In the talk which occurred via telephone Sunday evening, al-
Hashimi had said the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party which he leads felt
"sidelined" in the cabinet.
"We're considering leaving the government because we have lost
every hope for reforms," the agency said al-Hashimi told Bush.
Al-Hashimi's office said Bush took the vice-president's concerns
seriously and invited him to Washington for further talks.
The Iraqi Islamic Party has 44 of the 275 seats in parliament and
is the most important Sunni faction in the Shiite- and Kurd-dominated
parliament.

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