Indirect U.S. Talks With Iraq Rebels Reported

[rodeodance]

i had read a few months ago that these talks MIGHT be going on. Seems they are indeed.


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq9jun09,1,6443583.story

> Indirect U.S. Talks With Iraq Rebels Reported

> Religious figures and politicians act as intermediaries, an official in Baghdad says.

> June 9, 2005
> By Borzou Daragahi, Times Staff Writer
>
> BAGHDAD — The U.S. Embassy has held indirect talks with members of violent Iraqi insurgent groups, a U.S. official said Wednesday, edging back from a long-standing position not to negotiate with terrorists or those who have American or Iraqi blood on their hands.



......The discussions could also indicate a new willingness on the part of guerrillas to lay down their weapons. Former Electricity Minister Ayham Sameraei, a Sunni Arab, told Associated Press this week that the Islamic Army in Iraq and the Mujahedin Army, two militant groups that have claimed responsibility for attacks on Americans and kidnappings of foreigners, have approached him about the prospect of making peace with the new Iraqi government.

Indirect talks with American officials started six to eight weeks ago, said an insurgent leader in the western town of Ramadi.

"There is a secret kind of dialogue between the resistance and the Americans," said the man, known by the nickname Abu Diham. "It's done through mediators. We try to put our conditions forward to the Americans." .......

[kenny blankenship]

1. So the Bushies are sidling up to Islamo-fascism are they?

Treason! Only the weak and treasonous deal with terrarsts!

Iraq is ours, we stole it fair and square.
Let the treason trial of George Walker Bush commence.