Talabani due in US for checkup

Talabani will be the second top Iraqi politician to fly to the US for medical reasons in four days

Aljazeera.net
Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi president, is scheduled to travel to the United States this weekend for a medical checkup, a senior Kurdish politician close to the Iraqi leader said. The politician, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the checkup at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, has been scheduled for weeks. Talabani will be the second top Iraqi politician to fly to the US for medical reasons in four days. Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, a senior Shia politician, flew there aboard a US military aircraft on Wednesday for further tests to determine if he is suffering from lung cancer, according to members of his staff. Al-Hakim is the leader of the Supreme Islamic Council in Iraq, the country's largest Shia party and a partner in al-Maliki's coalition government...
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