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KITTY PILGRIM: Jamie McIntyre reports on the warning
about our military's readiness for another war.
Michael Ware reports from Baghdad on a new crisis at
the top of the Iraqi government.
And Ed Henry reports on the vice president's
political tactics with our so-called allies.
And we turn first to Jamie McIntyre -- Jamie.
PILGRIM: Well, a bloody day of violence in Iraq. A
suicide bomber killed at least 14 people in Ramadi in
Al Anbar Province. A bomb in Baghdad wounded an Iraqi
vice president, killed 12 people. And at the same
time, Iraq's president, Jalal Talabani, is receiving
emergency treatment in Jordan after falling ill.
Michael Ware reports from Baghdad -- Michael.
MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kitty, in the past
24 hours, we've seen both the Iraqi president and one
of Iraq's two vice presidents admitted to different
hospitals. One in a health scare, one as the result
of a bombing which is believed to have been an
attempted assassination.
The president of Iraq, Jalal Talabani, a man in his
early 70s, is now in neighboring Jordan in a hospital
in the capital, Amman, undergoing treatment. There
has been media reports that he suffered either a
stroke or heart attack; however, both his family and
his political faction have claimed that his condition
relates to fatigue and low blood pressure. Jordanian
hospital officials claim, however, that he's now in
intensive care following a procedure where a catheter
was inserted into his heart.
However, in Baghdad, the Shia vice president for
Iraq, Adel Abdul Mahdi, was treated in hospital for
injuries sustained in a bombing attack whilst he was
visiting the Ministry for Municipalities and Public
Works, a ministry controlled by his political
faction, the most dominant Shia bloc within the
government. Many are calling this an attempted
assassination or a strike against this most potent
political grouping within the government --
Kitty.