Iraq President Willing to Talk to Insurgents
Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani has said he is willing to speak to insurgents if they want to talk to him. Addressing a national reconciliation conference in Cairo, he said he was “responsible for all Iraqis” and wanted to “listen… even to criminals”.
But he said Saddam Hussein supporters and religious extremists had no role in the country’s political process.
There have been reports of contacts between insurgents and the Iraqi government, which have been denied.
Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, said in June the US government regularly facilitated contacts between the Iraqi government and insurgents.
Source: BBC.
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