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For the first time since the fall of Saddam Hussein, representatives of the new Iraq will sit together with each of the neighboring states, plus the United States (as well as others), at a conference next week in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Coming on the heels of the American military campaign in Fallujah, surging violence in other Sunni towns.

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