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Iraq's President Jalal Talabani, seen here in September 2011, is in the hospital for a medical 'emergency'.
By Reuters
Updated at 6:15 a.m. ET: BAGHDAD - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani -- a Kurd who has been a key player in mediating during the country's political crisis -- was hospitalized late Monday night?in Baghdad after suffering a stroke, government sources said on Tuesday.
He was in "critical but stable condition," the sources said.
Earlier Talabani's office said that he was hospitalized because of a "health emergency."
The elderly leader has been suffering from ill health this year and has received medical treatment overseas several times in last two years.
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"A specialized medical team is taking care of him and a report will be issued later," the statement from the presidential office said.
Should Talabani be incapacitated, Iraq would lose an influential negotiator who often stepped in to ease tensions in the fragile power-sharing government, including during a recent attempt to push a vote of no confidence against Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.?
A veteran of the Kurdish guerrilla movement, Talabani survived wars, exile and infighting in northern Iraq to become the country's first ever Kurdish president a few years after the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
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