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"As long as the Americans were around, Sunnis felt there was little they could do to get rid of Maliki and his team, seeing that the prime minister had been brought to power by the George W Bush administration and kept in his job by President Barack Obama.
They always felt that Iran had handled the 2003 toppling of Saddam as a blessing in disguise, using it to prop up loyalists like Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, his son Ammar, and Maliki himself, in top positions."
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