Posted on 10/25/2006 8:25:52 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1725292/posts?page=1
Iraqi Government Plans to Demobilize Illegal Militias
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, 2006 – The Iraqi government has plans to demobilize all illegal militias, including radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s so-called “Mahdi Army,” the senior U.S. diplomat in Iraq said today.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki “has agreed to getting rid of the militias,” U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad told reporters at a Baghdad news conference.
Illegal militias that commit violence and murder need to be dealt with, Khalilzad said, noting the Iraqi government recognizes that fact.
Maliki wants to demobilize all the militias, including al-Sadr’s, Khalilzad said. Yet, he noted, U.S. officials don’t have direct contact with Sadr, although there is some interaction with some of Sadr’s representatives in the Iraqi Assembly.
Khalilzad said he believes that an integrated, political approach is the best way to try to convince militia leaders to disband their men and stack arms.
However, Maliki doesn’t rule out the use of force to coerce the militias to disband, Khalilzad said. “We will see what happens,” he added.
Khalilzad said he believes the Iraqi government is taking the right path in addressing the militia issue. Iraq’s prime minister is anxious for Iraqis to assume more security roles and responsibilities, to include dealing the problem of militias, the ambassador said.
Meanwhile, U.S., coalition and Iraqi security forces “are actively tracking, targeting, detaining people who are operating in death squads, and their leadership, who are breaking the law,” Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr, commander of Multinational Force Iraq, said.
When Iraq’s government zeroes in on the militia issue, then the Iraqi security forces will become the dominant security forces in the country, Casey predicted.
“I think it will happen,” he said.
It was another political stunt that will backfire on the DUmcorats...it's this year's "Wellstone moment".
The DUmocrats--like the devil--always overplay their hand.
Fair enough, IF we can all play nice from now on ;)
Only with each other of course! No civility towards DUmmies ;)...LOL
Straight to the point... Go Rick!
LOL.
It was only a couple of people who have a history with Mark here on FR. Mark wasn't going after everyone and not everyone was going after him.
I know, but that saying about a few bad apples comes to mind.
I think I'm going to read through that thread and take names!
I recently ran into a poster that goes by the name, attilahun2 or something close to that...
Do you know if the sound bites are posted? I would like to hear them, I missed it. Rush just played Sawyer's questions. Thanks.
The ad is racist? LMAO. Libs are so full of it.
He knows damn well his tremors would shake people up.
Did Harold Ford really take money from the porn industry?
Sean Hannity on GMA Defends Limbaugh; Exposes Democrats' 'Selective Moral Outrage'
I heard the "racist" charge of the ad against Ford earlier this morning. I didn't 'get' it. That's too far of a reach for me.
I believe he did.
Well, Harold was at the Superbowl Playboy Party.
Oh yes, the party of the minorities.
Rush, play the burning down churches and civil rights waterhosing anti-Bush ads.
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