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Interim President Ghazi al-Yawer said Wednesday that a Saudi proposal to send Muslim and Arab forces to Iraq only as a replacement for coalition troops was "not acceptable."

Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has been working in recent weeks to persuade other countries to join the coalition here with little success.

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