Another damp squib
Dilip Hiro
June 26, 2006 04:15 PM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/dilip_hiro/2006/06/post_176.html
Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki's 28-point reconciliation plan
to defuse the Sunni insurgency and the Sunni-Shia violence proved to be
a damp squib - like his earlier "security plan" for Baghdad.
In the latter case, high hopes were raised by the copious press
briefings and leaks stressing that Maliki had consulted not just the
Iraqi president, Jalal Talabani, and the US ambassador, Zalmay
Khalilzad, an Afghan-American who is a Sunni Muslim, but also Sunni
insurgent groups.
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