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Arab League Envoy Takes Up Post in Iraq

Oct. 7, 2008
BAGHDAD, Oct. 6 -- The Arab League dispatched an ambassador to Baghdad on Monday, the latest sign of progress in the Iraqi and U.S. effort to ease this country's diplomatic isolation.
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