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Saddam's Tribal Leaders: Stop Attacking U.S. GIs
Newsmax.com ^
| 1/5/04
| Carl Limbacher
Posted on 01/05/2004 8:20:30 AM PST by truthandlife
Tribal chiefs in Tikrit, Iraq - birthplace of captured Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and a focal point for resistance to the U.S. occupation by remnants of Hussein's regime - are calling for an end to attacks on U.S. forces.
Saddam's hometown leaders are urging that a "reconciliation committee" be established "to convince the resistance movements to cease operations against American forces," reports the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram - according to a translation published Monday by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
Since Saddam's capture on Dec. 14, attacks on U.S. forces have dropped dramatically from levels the month before, though GI's are still being killed at the rate of one-a-day.
TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: goodnews; guerrillas; iraq; progress; reconciliation; saddam; tikrit; us
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Thought you might want to see this! Good news!
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posted on
01/05/2004 8:22:11 AM PST
by
hoosiermama
(Prayers for all!)
To: truthandlife
More bad news for Democrats. It's not too late, though -- they can still run on hairstyle.
To: truthandlife
Very good news, if true and pursued by all/most of the chiefs.
Their livelihoods must have been threatened.
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posted on
01/05/2004 8:22:37 AM PST
by
polemikos
(Kool Aid - The Breakfast of Democrats)
To: truthandlife
Maybe they're realizing that the fastest way to get the US out of Iraq is for peace to ensue and have a clean hand off of national control.
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To: highlander_UW
You nailed it....
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posted on
01/05/2004 8:48:47 AM PST
by
Banjoguy
To: truthandlife
Pray to our heavenly father that our armed forces conclude another spectacular mission.
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posted on
01/05/2004 8:55:17 AM PST
by
reed_inthe_wind
(That Hillary really knows how to internationalize my MOJO.)
To: truthandlife
This is indeed good news.
-Laz
To: truthandlife
Someone might want to send an invite to Howard Dean!
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posted on
01/05/2004 11:15:09 AM PST
by
thoughtomator
("I will do whatever the Americans want because I saw what happened in Iraq, and I was afraid"-Qadafi)
To: highlander_UW
Yeah... but then they'll realize that the Kurds and the Shia have their places at the table already and the Sunni will be begging for the scraps.
Cool. That's how democracy works.
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posted on
01/05/2004 11:42:38 AM PST
by
WOSG
(The only thing that will defeat us is defeatism itself)
To: truthandlife
Any reporting about this in the New York Times?
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posted on
01/05/2004 11:44:28 AM PST
by
Imal
(Vegetarianism is a voluntary demotion to the bottom of the food chain.)
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