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October 4, 2017

Former Iraqi Leader Jalal Talabani Dies at 83
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Former Iraqi president and Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani has died.
Talabani became Iraq's first non-Arab president in 2005, at the height
of the U.S.-led occupation. Talabani's supporters credit him with
smoothing over Iraq's sectarian tensions, but his government was
repeatedly accused of operating death squads and torture centers.


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