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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....

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To: Sully- who wrote (10970)6/10/2005 10:28:48 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Talking With The Insurgents

By Rob on Default
Say Anything

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The Guardian - American diplomats and army commanders have held indirect talks with insurgents in Iraq, the first officially sanctioned contact between the two sides in two years of violence.

A US embassy official in Baghdad said efforts were under way to “engage” elements of the resistance in an apparent softening of the Bush administration’s opposition to negotiations.

“In order to achieve stability and [an] end to the insurgency and stop Iraqis from being killed in large numbers, the insurgency has to be addressed,” the official told reporters.

“I don’t think the people we are sitting in the room with are directly operational, but they have relationships with them, sometimes through family ties, sometimes through previous associations with the previous regime.”

The briefing was on the record but under embassy rules the official could not be named.

He did not elaborate on the substance of the talks and it was unclear which of the insurgency’s numerous groups had been engaged.
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You’ve got to start somewhere.

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