Iraq Election Tensions Stir White House Mission (ap)

An Iraqi man walks past posters with an symbolic X across for the Iraqi lawmaker Dhafir al-Ani, a Sunni politician who has been barred from running in the election because of alleged ties to the Baath party, in Najaf, south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. The banner in Arabic reads, 'No for the return of the Baathists.' (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)AP – An upcoming election intended to ease Iraq’s sectarian rifts is instead dredging up old hostilities — with the White House sending Vice President Joe Biden to smooth tensions between the Shiites who hold power and the Sunnis who want a greater slice of it.

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