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Official: White House looking for 'war czar'

Thick smoke rises from the site of a suicide bomb explosion at Baghdad's al-Sarafiya bridge Thursday.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- White House aides, with U.S. President George W. Bush's blessing, are actively trying to hire a new point person to help pilot the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an administration official told CNN.

"There's an urgency to get this done," the official said, in referring to the administration's new security plan for Iraq. "Implementation and execution are critical now."

The "war czar" would report directly to Bush with the power to tell Cabinet secretaries what to do -- and yet have the diplomatic skills not "to use that tone of voice," the official said.

-- CNN White House Correspondent Ed Henry

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