US 'in talks with Iraq militants'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4885874.stm
The US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, has said
US officials have held talks with some groups linked to
the Sunni-led Iraqi insurgency.
Mr Khalilzad told the BBC that he believed the talks
had had an impact, as the number of attacks on US troops
by Iraqi militants had fallen.
Mr Khalilzad would not specify which groups the US
had had contact with but said they would not talk to
people he called Saddamists or terrorists seeking a
war on civilisation.
That is usually a reference to al-Qaeda figures such as
the Jordanian militant, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi.
However, the ambassador said militia groups, which he
described as the infrastructure of civil war, were just
as much of a problem.
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Bush negotiating with terrorists, plain and simple.
Who would you rather negotiate with,
Saddam Hussein or thousands of insurgents?
So much for unilateral, retroactive, pre-emption.
"Lessons learned" ?
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