BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United States is ready to help in negotiations to produce a broad coalition government in Iraq that can foster national unity, a U.S. official said in Baghdad on Saturday.
But, speaking a day after election results showed continued Shi'ite Islamist dominance, he said minority Sunni Arab leaders, largely excluded from power after boycotting the previous election, must act to end insurgent violence against U.S. forces and the Shi'ite- and Kurdish-led interim government.
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