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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, (L), his Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, (R), leaves the opening of a three-day preparatory meeting of the Iraqi reconciliation conference at the Arab league in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, 19 November 2005. Iraqi leaders assembled in Cairo on Saturday in an effort to patch over ethnic and religious fault lines, with the chief of the Arab League warning against allowing the country to slip into 'sedition or civil infighting.' EPA/AMR NABIL / POOL