The new leaders of Iraq must not allow "turbulence or incompetence or corruption" to slow or foil progress toward building democracy and defeating the "insurgency," US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said.

Rumsfeld arrived in Baghdad before sunrise Tuesday aboard an Air Force C-17 cargo plane for his second visit in three months. Rumsfeld met later Tuesday with Interim President Jalal Talabani, and Ibrahim al-Jaafari, who was designated interim prime minister last week.

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