DAMASCUS
- United States President Barack Obama's sudden arrival in Baghdad from Turkey on Tuesday - his first trip to Iraq since becoming president in January - took priority over other news coming out of the Iraqi capital, but meaningful events were also taking place elsewhere.
On the same day, Iraqi National Dialogue Minister Akram al-Hakim landed in Cairo to meet with former Ba'athists and ex-officers from the Iraqi army in exile. He had been sent to Egypt by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to ask the supporters of former president Saddam Hussein to renounce violence and to return to participate in government.
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