Iraqi Premier Offers 'Reconciliation,' but No New Plans for Amnesty
SABRINA TAVERNISE, NYTimes
Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki presented a muted "national reconciliation" plan on Sunday that outlined a general direction for his new government, but offered neither a broad amnesty for insurgents nor any new options for members of Saddam Hussein's long-ruling Baath Party, the two most heavily disputed items (...) Mr. Maliki's plan, intended to reduce insurgent attacks through dialogue and amnesty, was weeks in the making, with all of Iraq's religious and ethnic political blocs participating. He opted for a version that did not stake out any new ground, but simply repackaged previous pronouncements. The decision appeared to have been influenced by religious Shiites who form his base and by the American military command. A government pardon — which Sunni Arab leaders have called for in the case of Iraqi "resistance" fighters who oppose the American occupation — will apply, Mr. Maliki said in a speech to Parliament, only to detainees who "were not involved in criminal or terrorist activities." (...) "How can you call this amnesty?" said Sadoon al-Zubaidy, a Sunni Arab from the former Parliament. "We're talking about releasing people who are either proven innocent or who have not been charged with anything. We have a twisted kind of logic here."..
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Iraqi Sunni Leader" No national reconciliation in Iraq without the Baathist, nationalists and former army"
Sami Mahasna
...Mutlak stated that most of the leader in the coalition for national reconciliation do not actually want national reconciliation because they came to power as a result of a political coup, controlled Iraq through the US military, and want to exploit the situation for as long as possible to maintain their control on the state ministries and channel all the state revenues to their parties and supporters. Therefore, national reconciliation is not in their interest (...) Concerning contact with members of the Iraqi national resistance Mutlak said, "I believe that communication with the resistance was marginal and was not held with the actual leaders of the resistance"...
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Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki presented a muted "national reconciliation" plan on Sunday that outlined a general direction for his new government, but offered neither a broad amnesty for insurgents nor any new options for members of Saddam Hussein's long-ruling Baath Party, the two most heavily disputed items (...) Mr. Maliki's plan, intended to reduce insurgent attacks through dialogue and amnesty, was weeks in the making, with all of Iraq's religious and ethnic political blocs participating. He opted for a version that did not stake out any new ground, but simply repackaged previous pronouncements. The decision appeared to have been influenced by religious Shiites who form his base and by the American military command. A government pardon — which Sunni Arab leaders have called for in the case of Iraqi "resistance" fighters who oppose the American occupation — will apply, Mr. Maliki said in a speech to Parliament, only to detainees who "were not involved in criminal or terrorist activities." (...) "How can you call this amnesty?" said Sadoon al-Zubaidy, a Sunni Arab from the former Parliament. "We're talking about releasing people who are either proven innocent or who have not been charged with anything. We have a twisted kind of logic here."..
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Iraqi Sunni Leader" No national reconciliation in Iraq without the Baathist, nationalists and former army"
Sami Mahasna
...Mutlak stated that most of the leader in the coalition for national reconciliation do not actually want national reconciliation because they came to power as a result of a political coup, controlled Iraq through the US military, and want to exploit the situation for as long as possible to maintain their control on the state ministries and channel all the state revenues to their parties and supporters. Therefore, national reconciliation is not in their interest (...) Concerning contact with members of the Iraqi national resistance Mutlak said, "I believe that communication with the resistance was marginal and was not held with the actual leaders of the resistance"...
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