IRAQ: Secret talks between Iraqi insurgents and American officials, Part 2

The 1920 Revolution Brigades issued a statement on Thursday in response to a Babylon and Beyond blog item last month about two meetings in Istanbul, Turkey, last spring between U.S. officials and a coalition of Sunni insurgent groups in Istanbul.  In the group's statement Thursday, the 1920 Revolution Brigades said that it had not participated in the Political Council for the Iraqi Resistance's talks with the Americans and described the previous blog post as "mistaken." Babylon and Beyond said that the 1920 Revolution Brigades belongs to the umbrella group of Sunni insurgents, the Political Council for the Iraqi Resistance, that held the meetings with the Americans this spring.  

 

In its statement Thursday, the 1920 Revolution Brigades said that now was not the time for negotiations with the U.S. government or military. It referred to a previous statement it had issued on its stance regarding the Istanbul talks with the Americans: "This stage for the conflict between us and the enemy does not require to negotiate with him but requires to increase the momentum of the strikes to force him to comply to our terms and withdraw from our land."

 --  Ned Parker in Los Angeles

Comments

[adam albright]

bush is a liar

[Jeff]

Bush is the biggest liar ever: he lied to his own country just to finish the war that his father had started.

[Joanne]

Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Remember that. Bush wanted to go there even before he got into the White House. Our enemy was in Afghanistan, but Bush took all of our resources out of there and sent them to Iraq, which is why Osama bin Laden is still free. Everyone of the deaths, every Iraqi civilian and every American, is because Bush wanted to go to Iraq so he could be a "war president".

We are getting out of there as well as we can, which means that we will have to leave some troops in there until the Iraqis can fend for themselves. I don't know how many, but it will be in the thousands.

If you voted for Bush the first time, you were had. If you voted for him the second time, you are to blame.

[Mike Lee]

I observed in 2003 that what Bush was undertaking was impossible -- the U.S. has never had an Army large enough to occupy and control a country and population of this size.

For that matter, Germany never fully conquered France during World War 2 with nearly 2 million men - several times larger than the U.S. Army now.

I also observed that the last shot from the "resistance" would be fired at the last aircraft carry the last American out of Iraq. That's also based on historical observation. The British Army was essentially run out of Iraq back in the 1920's. Hundreds of British soldiers are still buried there.

Ultimately, the government of Iraq is not going to be the "model" the West sets up, but rather determined by the indigenous population by whatever method suits them best, be it AK-47's or ballots. It's their damned country.

Which is to say, I fully expect civil war to continue in Iraq for quite some time -- long after the U.S. leaves.

The same was true in Vietnam and will be true in Afghanistan. Again. Still.
Mike

[May15thProphecy]

This is just more proof of the 100% accuracy of GOD CURSE OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION and more evidence of the LIE of the so-called ''SUCCESS OF THE SURGE''

[A Concerned American]

Some people are just plain STUPID.

Hello??? We are downsizing our troops and will pull out but if the suucide bombing and other continue then the US troops wil remain..........

We are not there to rule Iraq but to make sure now that it is stable in the region.