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Report: Bush Admin Considers Abandoning Sunni Reconciliation Efforts

HeadlineDec 01, 2006

The Washington Post also reports the Bush administration is considering a plan to drop reconciliation efforts with Sunni groups and instead prioritize relations with the Shiite and Kurdish groups who dominate Iraq’s government. Insiders call the proposal the “eighty percent” solution because it would effectively abandon the 5 million Sunnis who comprise 20 percent of Iraq’s population.

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