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On Top Of The News Email:news@arubatoday.com website: www.arubatoday.com Tel:+297 582-7800 Friday, April 29, 2016
Vice President Joe Biden steps off a C-17 military transport plane upon his arrival in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 28, 2016. Biden arrived in Baghdad on a visit
intended to help Iraqi leaders resolve a political crisis that has hindered efforts to defeat the Islamic State group.
(AP Photo/Josh Lederman)
Biden Presses Iraq to Not Let Political Chaos Upend GainsÂ
JOSH LEDERMAN the country that’s come tem descended into tur- Cabinet and touted prog- Still, the anxious undertones
Associated Press to symbolize America’s moil, hindering U.S.-led ef- ress wresting back territory of Biden’s brief visit were
BAGHDAD (AP) — Vice relentless struggles in the forts to defeat extremists from IS. “It’s real, it’s seri- clear from the moment
President Joe Biden pressed Middle East. Biden slipped who control parts of both ous, and it’s committed,†he stepped off a military
Iraq on Thursday not to let into Baghdad on an unan- Iraq and Syria. Sitting down Biden said as he met with transport plane into blister-
its crippling political crisis nounced trip, his first to Iraq with Iraq’s beleaguered Parliament Speaker Salim ing heat after an overnight
upend hard-fought gains in nearly five years. Officials leaders, he praised them al-Jabouri, a Sunni politi- flight from Washington.
against the Islamic State said the stop was planned for working “very, very cian facing calls from his
group as he returned to before Iraq’s political sys- hard†to construct a new colleagues to resign. Continued on Page 3