Al-Maliki poised to boot US from Iraq?

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/31/iraq.main/index.html

Ok, wishful-thinking extraction from this news item: Maliki stating he doesn't want proxy war, US vs. Iran, to be waged in Iraq.


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's prime minister said Wednesday he's sure Iran is behind some attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and he won't allow his country to be a battleground for the two nations.

"We have told the Iranians and the Americans, 'We know that you have a problem with each other, but we are asking you, please solve your problems outside Iraq,' " Nuri al-Maliki old CNN.

"We will not accept Iran to use Iraq to attack the American forces," al-Maliki said Wednesday in an exclusive interview with CNN.

"We don't want the American forces to take Iraq as a field to attack Iran or Syria," he added.