Once Slaughter transitioned into her role at the State Department, she had an unexpected awakening.

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Awakening Council chief Sheikh Wissam al-Hardan was meanwhile quoted by state television as saying that if those responsible for killing soldiers in the past week were not handed over, it would "take the requested procedures and do what it did in 2006".

BBC: Iraq PM Maliki warns of 'plague of sectarianism'

In Anbar alone there are 25, 000 policemen, a big number in Nineveh, Diyala, Salaheddin, and we decided to integrate 20 percent of Sons of Iraq, or so-called Awakening, into the security forces, and the rest we decided to integrate into other state institutions because we can not accept huge numbers above Iraq's need and capacity in the police and army.

CNN: Transcript: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Iraq