 US President George W. Bush is heading to Amman, Jordan on Wednesday for talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Is the US about to change its Iraq strategy? SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke with Yasar Qatarneh, director of the Regional Center on Conflict Prevention in Amman, about how the Iraq problem could be solved. SPIEGEL ONLINE: US President George W. Bush is meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Amman, Jordan on Wednesday and Thursday for urgent talks on the security situation in Iraq. But things have been going poorly in Iraq for some time. Why now? Yasar Qatarneh: Some have suggested that this meeting is taking place now because Bush was already on this side of the Atlantic for the NATO summit in Riga. Others have said that it is merely part of the administration's review of its Iraq policy and will give Bush a chance to get the Iraqi government's views. I don't think either of these are the real reason. The meeting has been prompted by Iran's invitation to ...
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