Saudi king tells Kerry he will press Sunnis to join Iraq government

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* Riyadh previously insisted that Shi'ite PM Maliki quit first * Saudi alarm about ISIL insurgents rises as they near border * Inclusive Iraq government seen key to quelling rebels By Lesley Wroughton SHAN**N, Ireland, June 28 (Reuters) - Saudi King Abdullah pledged in talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to use his influence to encourage Sunni Muslims to join a new, more inclusive Iraqi government to better combat an Islamist insurgency, a senior U.S. official said on Saturday. After a week of frenetic diplomacy by Kerry tackling the threat of Iraq's disintegration, Abdullah's assurance marked a significant shift from Riyadh's insistence on the removal of Iraqi Prime Minister **ur al-Maliki, a Shi'ite Muslim. The U.S. official said the Saudi monarch voiced deep concern to Kerry about the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) insurgents who have overrun much of **rthern Iraq and its border with Syria and thrust southward, approaching the Saudi frontier.

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