Iraq, Insurgent Negotiations Deadlocked

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Iraq, Insurgent Negotiations Deadlocked

By HAMZA HENDAWI
The Associated Press
Thursday, March 22, 2007; 6:21 PM

BAGHDAD -- Iraq's government has engaged in secret negotiations seeking
to get some Sunni Arab insurgent groups to give up their fight, but the talks
are deadlocked over the lack of a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops,
a senior official said Thursday.

Saad Yousif al-Muttalibi of the Ministry of National Dialogue and Reconciliation
said talks have been taking place inside and outside Iraq over the past three
months and involved five or six insurgent groups.

He did not identify the groups, saying only that they excluded al-Qaida in Iraq
and Saddam Hussein loyalists. But he said senior members of Saddam's outlawed
Baath party took part. He added further talks were planned but would give no
details.

Speaking to The Associated Press, al-Muttalibi described the talks as "very
delicate" and said they were being conducted through intermediaries. He said
negotiations were initiated at the request of the insurgents, who insisted on
being kept anonymous as a condition for talking.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007032201405.html

[roamer65]

1. Time for us to GET OUT.

[rodeodance]

2. The Irony of this is that the Insugents are bickering over when we are to

leave and Bush will not set a time.
So, the Insurgents will determine when we leave????????
I shake my heard