Jordan hosts Maliki - Bush Summit

RIGA, LATVIA (AP) -- President Bush, under pressure to find a new blueprint for Iraq, meets Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Wednesday in a high-stakes summit designed to mutually chart a stable, peaceful future for the fragile government.

Bush was poised to sit down with al-Maliki in Amman, Jordan, where the president was expected to ask the embattled Iraqi prime minister how best to train Iraqi forces faster so they can shoulder more responsibility for halting the sectarian violence and, specifically, mending a gaping Sunni-Shiite divide.

The two-day summit was beginning even as a top White House adviser raised doubts about al-Maliki's ability to halt escalating sectarian violence.