Iraqi Insurgents Offer To Halt Attacks In Exchange For Foreign Troop Withdrawal Timetable...

Associated Press Stephen R. Hurst & Qassim Abdul-Zhara June 28, 2006 at 02:17 PM
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Eleven Sunni insurgent groups have offered to halt attacks on the U.S.-led military if the Iraqi government and President Bush set a two-year timetable for withdrawing all foreign troops from the country, insurgent and government officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The demand is part of a broad offer from the groups, who operate north of Baghdad in the heavily Sunni Arab provinces of Salahuddin and Diyala. Although much of the fighting has been to the west, those provinces have become increasingly violent and the attacks there have regularly crippled oil and commerce routes.

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