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Negotiating With Terrorists?

June 25, 2005 by PunditGuy 1 Comment

I hope this story isn’t accurate.

Despite months of American military assaults on supposed insurgent bases, General John Abizaid, the regional US commander, admitted to Congress last week that opposition strength was “about the same” as six months ago and that “there’s a lot of work to be done against the insurgency”.

That work now includes secret negotiations with rebel leaders, according to the Iraqi sources.

Washington seems to be gingerly probing for ways of defusing home-grown Iraqi opposition and of isolating the foreign Islamic militants who have flooded into Iraq to wage holy war against America under the command of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

The talks appear to represent the first serious effort by Americans and Iraqi insurgents to find common ground since violence intensified in the spring. Earlier informal contacts were reported but produced no perceptible progress.

Finding common ground…why does that sound like surrender?

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  1. The Uncooperative Blogger says

    June 25, 2005 at 11:42 pm

    I am not a Christian but my favorite quote from the New Testament (sp?) was “judge a tree by its fruits.”

    That pretty much says it all if you’re not going to buy and read the Qur’an for yourselves.

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