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Senate logjam complicates US efforts in Iraq

By Bradley Klapper
Published June 16, 2014 8:59pm ET
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Senate logjam complicates US efforts in Iraq
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate logjam over confirming ambassadors risks hampering U.S. efforts to contain an expanding Islamist urgency in Iraq, with several of President Barack Obama’s nominees for the volatile Middle East unsure when they can get to work. Obama announced his choice of a new ambassador to Iraq last month, and recently nominated […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate logjam over confirming ambassadors risks hampering U.S. efforts to contain an expanding Islamist urgency in Iraq, with several of President Barack Obama’s nominees for the volatile Middle East unsure when they can get to work.

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