Iraq Declaration of Independence Signed by Major Parties, Chalabi

Think of this document as the Iraqi Declaration of Independence.

Ahmad Chalabi (embezzler, fraudster, counterfeiter, double agent, etc.) attended the conference on Thursday and signed the Pact of Honor in person alongside the leaders of almost all other major parties and interests.

The demands subscribed by the signing political representatives include:

* a timetable for rapid withdrawal of occupation forces;
* elimination of occupation military bases while rebuilding Iraqi military institutions and forces;
* removal of legal immunity for occupation troops for acts against civilians and breaches of human rights;
* categorical rejection of normalised relations with Israel;
* recognition of the legitimacy of resistance to occupation while deploring terrorism against civilians.

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BAGHDAD: A group of Shiite and Sunni parties has signed a declaration condemning terrorism, urging a timetable for the end of the US military presence, and vowing never to normalise relations with Israel.

The parties to the 'code of honour' included followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq and the Sunni Iraqi Consensus Front.

The code also declared that resistance is a legitimate right and condemned 'terrorism, violence, murder and kidnappings.' The code is non-binding but it indicates what parties might choose to work together after the new parliament is elected next week.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1325247.cms


Iraq: Sunnis, Shiites against Israeli relations
By ASSOCIATED PRESS

A group of Shiite and Sunni parties signed a declaration Thursday condemning terrorism, urging a timetable for the end of the US military presence, and vowing never to normalize relations with Israel.

The parties to the "code of honor" included followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq and the Sunni Iraqi Consensus Front.

The code also declared that resistance is a legitimate right and condemned "terrorism, violence, murder and kidnappings."

The code is non-binding but it indicates what parties might choose to work together after the new parliament is elected next week.

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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1132475714942&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull


Sunday, November 27, 2005

Rubaie: US will Withdraw Completely from Some Areas
Muqtada offers National Pact

Al-Sharq al-Awsat: Muwaffaq al-Rubaie, national security adviser to the Iraqi government, said Saturday that "The American forces will soon turn over complete and total responsibility for security in a number of areas of the country to Iraqi forces." He said that a joint working committee was formed last summer toward that end. He expressed hope that there would be further turn-overs before the Dec. 15 elections, to deprive the guerrilla movement of its pretext for rejecting the political process, i.e. that it is unfolding under the shadow of foreign military occupation.

It is little noted in the US press that US troops have already withdrawn from the cities of Najaf and Karbala. American forces are also withdrawing from military bases in favor of Iraqis. The somewhat ill-fated US hand-over of Saddam's palace complex in Tikrit to the Iraqi government last week was part of this series of withdrawals (the ceremony took mortar fire).

Coalition forces are likely to withdraw from some 15 other Iraqi cities fairly soon. They appear to initially pull back to a garrison outside the city. But if things stay quiet, it is apparently envisaged by al-Rubaie and other Iraqi government figures that they will depart entire provinces. This process is probably problematic only in about 7 or 8 of Iraq's 18 provinces, where an American withdrawal might well result in a takeover by the neo-Baath and the Salafis, or in a civil war among Sunnis and Shiites. What to do about that in the absence of a well-trained, functioning Iraqi army, none of us really knows.

Al-Hayat: Shaikh Bashir Najafi, one of four Grand Ayatollahs in the Shiite holy city of Najaf south of Baghdad, expressed his support on Saturday for the United Iraqi Alliance, the Shiite religiious coalition. Najafi, a Pakistani, is slightly junior to Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, who endorsed the UIA in the elections of last January, but who appears reluctant to do so this time around. Al-Najafi's endorsement is probably a way for the religious leadership in Najaf to make its preference known without having it be binding as a religious duty on the millions of Iraqi Shiites who are pledged blindly to obey (taqlid) Sistani on matters of religious law and comportment.

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http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/11/1786227.php

makes you sick doesn't it.

If it's not widely reported on CNN or FOX, then it doesn't exist. Oh look, another girl has gone missing in some beautiful paradise. Let's watch that instead. :sarcasm:

The fact is I doubt the US federal government gives a damn. The British Crown certainly didn't give a damn. All they did was try to annihilate the people who signed the declaration two centuries ago.

when they start to push the "timetable for the removal of US forces" and the "no normalization of relations with Israel" stuff. Perhaps if that happens some of those who signed this "declaration" will become victims of the "insurgency"?

they will get their independence (read theocracy) in the end. History repeats itself. Now I'm just waiting for the Secession War...