President Obama's proud political boast is that he ended the Iraq war. But on Friday, he will come face-to-face with a man who is still fighting it—Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

The Iraqi leader visits the White House as Al-Qaeda sows terror in Iraq's Shiite community, with a surge of suicide and car bombings, drawing analogies to the darkest days of sectarian bloodletting during the US occupation.

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