Batarical Hatashmi(ph), one of the Sunni leaders, insists it was nothing more than a courtesy call.
American officials had been hoping that Sunni Muslims would get some role in Iraq's new government.
But the chances of Sunni participation have been complicated by a split in Sunni ranks.
Mutlaq heads the National Dialogue Council, one of several Sunni-based groups that fielded candidates in the election.
Indeed, Maliki reportedly plans to postpone local elections in the Sunni-majority provinces of Anbar and Ninevah.
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It's one of the areas where the Sunni-led insurgency has been at its most persistent.
This has been a trouble spot, is that right, in the Sunni triangle for some time?
The Shia-Sunni fault line, with Syria currently at its epicentre, is certainly contributing, he notes.
So far Dr Jaafari has given little sign of wanting to accommodate the Sunni insurgency.
The Iraqi Islamic Party, Mr Allawi's main Sunni Arab partner, said it would leave the government.
Both the government and al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world's highest authority, condemned the incident.
It's one of the last Sunni islands on the east side of the river.
Recently his aides met with Sunni Arab tribal leaders who have turned on al-Qaida.
The US relationship with Iraq's Sunni Arabs has evolved since the invasion of 2003.
Al-Ahmar makes some Western officials nervous because of his links with radical Sunni Islamists.
The government says religious harmony is strong in Indonesia, which has a large Sunni Muslim majority.
Brig Gen Wissam al-Hassan was viewed as one of the leading Sunni figures in Lebanon.
Riad Turk, a Sunni businessman who spent 25 years in jail, is a widely respected supporter.
But Iraqiya is now fragmented with some prominent Sunni figures fielding their own slates of candidates.
He singled out Youssef al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian Sunni Muslim cleric who is based in Qatar.
Sheikh AWAD ALI HUSSEIN (Sunni Tribal Leader): (Through translator) Two of my brothers have been killed.
American forces in Iraq's volatile Anbar province have a new ally, Sunni tribal sheikhs.
Their Shiite neighbors were simply too frightened to do anything to protect their Sunni friends.
Police in Pakistan say they have detained 250 members of the hardline Sunni Muslim group, Sipah-e-Sahaba.
The Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars says today that 168 Sunni mosques have been attacked.
It has a Shia Muslim majority but is governed by a Sunni royal family.
One main Sunni party, the Iraqi Islamic Party, endorsed the document in the end.
Most Saudis are Sunni Muslims, and Sunni Islam is the only allowed religion in the country.
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It's home to a volatile mixture of Sunni Muslims, Shiite Muslims, Sunni Kurds, even Christians.
Turkey, part of the region's Sunni Muslim camp, needs more oil to fuel its expanding economy.
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