Sun, Jan 22, 2006 - Page 7 News List

Iraq gears up for coalition talks

TOUGH ROAD The ruling Shiites and their Kurdish allies appeared ready to start talks on forming a national unity government while violence continued to rock the country

AGENCIES , BAGHDAD AND KIRKUK, IRAQ

Meanwhile, a delegation from the Council on American-Islamic Relations was due in Baghdad yesterday to appeal for the release of Carroll, abducted in Baghdad on Jan. 7 by gunmen who shot dead her interpreter.

Sunni Arab leaders in Iraq and Muslims around the world pleaded for her release on Friday, hours before the expiration of a deadline set by kidnappers.

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