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| Fallujah Seeks Peace Talks if Attacks End |
| 2004-10-16 |
| 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 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. Talks between Iraqi officials and Fallujah clerics had been underway for weeks to restore government control in the insurgent stronghold 40 miles west of Baghdad. The talks broke down Thursday over the government's demands that the city hand over Jordanian-born terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whom the Fallujah leadership maintains is not in the city. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #13 The military is denying the Zarqawi rumor. |
| Posted by: JP 2004-10-16 10:36:18 PM |
| #12 Hmmm, I'm a little confused here... Fallujah, a city within Iraq, is negotiating with the current government of Iraq, about whether or not it has to follow the rules laid down to it by its own government. Sounds a little like San Francisco telling the rest of the USA that it is seceding from the Union (not that we'd miss Baghdad By The Bay). Also, what the hell is this bullshit about Fallujah negotiating for anything anyway? Don;t these asshats realize they lost the war? Maybe a B-52/B-1 droplight strike as a friendly reminder is in order here. Thanks, LC FOTSGreg, Imperial Game Designer |
| Posted by: LC FOTSGreg 2004-10-16 8:21:10 PM |
| #11 No Hudnas, only victory! |
| Posted by: TS(vice girl) 2004-10-16 6:49:30 PM |
| #10 It's becoming repetitive, but... Kill 'em, Kill 'em all One does not negotiate or compromise with evil. How can you when your enemy believes his/her god will provide an eternal reward for killing non-believers (everyone except the true believers)? |
| Posted by: Constitutional Individualist 2004-10-16 6:33:14 PM |
| #9 Just finish those assh*les off and be done with it. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2004-10-16 4:36:43 PM |
| #8 typo* suspend |
| Posted by: Sholuling Grump8368 2004-10-16 3:07:10 PM |
| #7 I think the Fallujah leaders and negotiators now understand the Iraqi government doesn't play the same mind games anymore. This is what happens when you suspect the talks that your survival depends on. |
| Posted by: Sholuling Grump8368 2004-10-16 3:06:36 PM |
| #6 squeeze those subhumans by the balls and crush them like dried leaves. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2004-10-16 1:48:05 PM |
| #5 Great point about the mosques being "fair game" changing the rules of the game. No place for the cockroaches to hide. America, stay strong and put the hammer down in the hugest possible way---make Fallujah the tipping point in Iraq. Don't give a rats ass what the press----MSM, and especially the Europeans---say about it. |
| Posted by: molokai_man 2004-10-16 1:17:45 PM |
| #4 These clerics are now sweating all the secondary explosions that are starting to occur in mosques. |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-10-16 11:46:47 AM |
| #3 David Warren says there is a rumor that Zarqawi has been nabbed. He's doubtful, but the rumors out there and damn it would be nice. |
| Posted by: RJ Schwarz 2004-10-16 11:45:00 AM |
| #2 Squeeze them like a grape now. Grab hold of their necks and squeeze. Do not let up until the fur ball is coughed up. |
| Posted by: Capt America 2004-10-16 11:40:56 AM |
| #1 too little, too late - surrender Zarqawi and those responsible for killing teh American contractors and doing car bombs and we might not level the town... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-10-16 10:48:02 AM |