Report: Maliki rejects foreign interference in meeting with U.S. lawmakers

Left: U.S. Senator Ben Nelson, Dem, Nebraska, left, and Senator Jeff Sessions, Rep, Alabama, talk to the media after today's meeting.

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told a delegation of visiting US lawmakers on Saturday that foreign powers should not try to influence the Iraqi political process...

"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," his office announced...

"Maliki said there are two dangers threatening Iraq, namely Al-Qaeda and the Saddamists, whom he said are leading the arbitrary killings aganist all Iraqis with their differing sects and affiliations," the statement said.

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