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Peter Spiegel reports for the Los Angeles Times, "Eager to cement the security gains of last year's troop buildup, the US military has shifted its strategy from the streets to the corridors of power in a high-stakes effort to persuade Iraq's wary Shiite leaders to put thousands of predominantly Sunni men, many of them former insurgents, on the government payroll."

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