Sadr reaches out to Iraqi Sunni clerics for coordination

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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-02/08/content_2560227.htm

BAGHDAD, Feb. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Iraq's firebrand Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr, who had called for a nationwide rebellion against US-led forces last year, reached out to Sunni clerics for coordination, spokesman for a Sunni association said on Monday.

"A delegation from the office of Sadr visited the headquarters of the Muslim Scholars Association and met with Harith al-Dhari, head of the association, for coordination between the two parties,"said Abdul Salam al-Kubaisy at a press conference. snip

"We would welcome any national comprehensive dialogue built on methodological bases and the separation between resistance and terrorism, because some are trying to relate the Iraqi resistance to Zarqawi group and loyalists of the former regime," said Kubaisy.

"The dialogue should lead to the withdrawal of the Americans from our country," he said.

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1. Gee, could all three factions cooperate and work to end the

American occupation? It will be most interesting if there is a cease fore that holds and the people of Iraq combine forces to demand the US end their occupation of their country.

At some point, this administration will have to explain that we can't leave because all their oil belong to us.