[Mb-civic] Iraq's President Calls for Prime Minister to Step Down in Split Between Kurds, Shiites

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Iraq's President Calls for Prime Minister to Step Down in Split Between Kurds, Shiites 
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By The Associated Press

October 2 2005, 1:11 PM PDT

KIRKUK, Iraq -- Iraq's Kurdish president called on the country's Shiite prime minister to step down, the spokesman for the president's party said today, escalating a political split between the two factions that make up the government. 

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