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President Obama to Renew Muslim Outreach

(Wall Street Journal) Jay Solomon and Carol E. Lee - President Barack Obama is preparing a fresh outreach to the Muslim world in coming days, senior U.S. officials say, one that will ask those in the Middle East and beyond to reject Islamic militancy in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death and embrace a new era of relations with the U.S. The president intends to argue that bin Laden's death, paired with popular uprisings sweeping North Africa and the Middle East, signal that the time has come to an end when al-Qaeda could claim to speak for Muslim aspirations. The White House is still debating whether Mr. Obama should lay out a concrete plan for revitalizing the stalled Arab-Israeli peace process and whether an aggressive U.S. push to resume peace talks would likely be successful.
2011-05-12 00:00:00
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