Maliki's Master Plan - By Rod Nordland at Newsweek

Maliki's Master Plan

WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Rod Nordland
Newsweek
Updated: 12:42 a.m. ET June 24, 2006

"June 24, 2006 - A timetable for withdrawal of occupation troops from Iraq. Amnesty for all insurgents who attacked U.S. and Iraqi military targets. Release of all security detainees from U.S. and Iraqi prisons. Compensation for victims of coalition military operations.

Those sound like the demands of some of the insurgents themselves, and in fact they are. But they're also key clauses of a national reconciliation plan drafted by new Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who will unveil it Sunday. The provisions will spark sharp debate in Iraq—but the fiercest opposition is likely to come from Washington, which has opposed any talk of timetables, or of amnesty for insurgents who have attacked American soldiers.

But in Iraq, even a senior military official in the U.S.-led coalition said Friday that the coalition might consider a timetable under certain circumstances. And the official was careful to point out that a distinction needs to be made between terrorists and the resistance.

NEWSWEEK has obtained a draft copy of the national reconciliation plan, and verified its contents with two Iraqi officials involved in the reconciliation process who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the plan's contents. Prime Minister Maliki will present the document to the National Assembly when it convenes on Sunday, and it's expected to be debated over the coming week. Maliki has made reconciliation and control of party militias the main emphasis of his new government. This plan follows a series of secret negotiations over the past two months between seven insurgent groups, President Jalal Talabani and officials of the U.S. embassy. The insurgent groups involved are Sunnis but do not include foreign jihadis like al Qaeda and other terrorist factions who deliberately target civilians; those groups have always denounced any negotiations.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13521628/site/newsweek/

vote on not making a timetable on leaving Iraq. I cannot wait to find out the details of when this plan came about and when the GOP decided to have the vote?

Should be interesting.

and I can't seem to search it out. I want to use it on a BBS. Can you please try again?

pnorman

Newsweek changed the placement.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13521628/site/newsweek/

:grr:

I sometime have the same problem. I can usually find & fix it, but not always.

pnorman

home sites. I have heard about permalinks.. but never used them. Wouldn't know how. A site like Huffington Post where I got this.. probably has automatic link checks to make sure their links are timely and up to date. The rest of us count of feedback when it stops working.

Thanks for the feedback.

Here is a link to a companion article published today in the London Times. The authors of this article say that the Iraqi insurgents have already rejected the plan.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2242602,00.html