Bush, Maliki hold crunch talks on Iraq

AMMAN (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush met Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Jordan on Thursday to seek ways to stem sectarian carnage threatening to split Iraq. 

Their working breakfast began a day after U.S. officials insisted the Iraqi leader was not offended by a critical White House memo and had not snubbed the U.S. president in Amman.