Insurgents seek dialogue with U.S., role in new Iraq

Chicago Tribune ^ | Dec 13 2005 | LIZ SLY

[jmc1969]

Homegrown Iraqi insurgent groups are reaching out to the United States in the hope of launching a dialogue that would draw them into the political process and end their 2 1/2-year rebellion, according to U.S. officials and Iraqis close to the insurgency.

Spurred by fears of the growing influence of Iran and encouraged by signals from Washington that the United States will start drawing down troops next year, insurgents who see themselves as fighting for an Iraqi nationalist cause are looking for ways to distance themselves from the religious radicals who have dominated the insurgency, with a view to establishing a foothold in Iraq's political landscape.

"There is a difference between terrorists and the national Iraqi resistance," he said. "Zarqawi's group does nothing but suicide attacks and killing Iraqis. That's not resistance."

Now, 2 1/2 years after the invasion, Iraqi nationalist elements of the insurgency are realizing that simply ejecting American forces will not be enough to secure their interests in a new Iraq that is evolving into a nation with a very different identity to the one they had been fighting to bring back.

According to a former Iraqi corps commander who says he has influence over the insurgency, at one meeting of insurgent groups last summer, several Iraqi insurgent leaders suggested that "Iran is a bigger enemy of Iraq than America," and proposed that the insurgency refocus its priorities toward battling Iran.

"But they were overruled by Zarqawi," said the commander, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "The Iraqis, the national resistance, now have no say."

Al-Zarqawi's influence has steadily been diminished in recent months, by a combination of repeated U.S. military offensives against his strongholds in the western province of Anbar and by the beginnings of a rift between the homegrown Iraqi insurgency and the al-Qaida.

[Fee]

A Shiite and Kurdish dominated Army and Police, equipped and trained by US, backed by US airpower would not take prisoner. They do counter insurgency the Arab way. Capture prisoner, torture for info, shoot prisoner, then they take it out on his immediate family. No Iraqi MSM or human rights groups to screw with them. Foreign MSM and human rights groups will be kicked out of the country. The US was gentle compared to what is installed for the Sunni minority.

[HardStarboard]

>>>...somehow, I think that condition has been mentioned..<<<

There is only one condition.....unconditional surrender,

or death!