Fallujah Seeks Peace Talks if Attacks End

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Fallujah Seeks Peace Talks if Attacks End
Sat Oct 16,10:03 AM ET

FALLUJAH, Iraq - A Fallujah delegation offered Saturday to resume peace talks with the government if the United States ceases attacks against the city and releases the chief negotiator.

"We are ready to resume talks," delegation member Khaled Fakhri al-Jumeili told reporters. "We suspended the talks because we felt that the Iraqi government, especially Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, was meeting the demands of the Americans."

He said that if attacks and airstrikes stop, "we are ready to return to the negotiating table."

Sheik Abdul Hamid Jadou, another delegation member, added that the delegation also wanted its chairman, Khaled al-Jumeili, freed. Witnesses said he was arrested by the Americans on Friday after prayers at a village south of Fallujah.

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