Maliki tells US senators pressure not acceptable
Published: Sunday, 29 April, 2007, 08:29 AM Doha Time
BAGHDAD: Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told a delegation of visiting US lawmakers yesterday that foreign powers should not try to influence the Iraqi political process.
He also resisted calls for his Shia-led government to rehabilitate former members of ousted Sunni dictator Saddam Hussain's regime.
Maliki met a group of US congressmen shortly after their chamber voted for a law calling for a timetable for American troop withdrawal from Iraq.
"During his meeting with members of the US Congress headed by Democratic Senator Ben Nelson, Maliki said allowing influence over our affairs to this state or that is a red line that we will not cross,".....

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