Posted on 05/04/2007 6:25:11 PM PDT by ASC2006
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, 5 May 2007 Iran and the United States dashed hopes of a major breakthrough at an international conference convened to stabilize war-torn Iraq when they held only mid-level talks yesterday.
Speculation had mounted since Thursdays start of the conference in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheikh that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice could hold historic talks with her Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki.
But at a meeting designed to enhance international cooperation on Iraqi security, Mottaki described US troops as terrorists and lashed out at Washington over the continued detention of Iranian officials seized in January.
To create a safe haven for those terrorists who try to turn Iraqi territory into a base for attacking Iraqs neighbors should be condemned, the Iranian foreign minister said.
(Excerpt) Read more at arabnews.com ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Ironic - I’ve had Americans tell me the exact same thing.
He must be reading The Daily Kos.
Most Iraqi’s would say that the Iranian troops in Iraq are terrorists.
We have to do that,period...
No surprise that al-BBC ends this good news on a critical note about the extra-judicial aspect of the Sheik's endeavors.
How well is the new approach of empowering the Iraqi tribal leaders against the insurgency going? Smashingly well. Channel 4 in the UK has this superb video, which focuses on Sheikh Abdul Sattar Buzaigh al-Rishaw and his war against Al Qaeda in Anbar Province: Video here>>> Once a nationalist leader in the insurgency, Sheikh Sattar has seen the society Al Qaeda intends for Iraq. Its not one that includes him, or his Rishawi tribesmen. Indeed Al Qaedas future Iraq is a society of death and plunder, where the violence of the insurgency is only a foretaste of a permanent social revolution. The real enemy, as far as Al Qaeda is concerned, is not the temporary Americans, but the Iraqi people, who are to be remade into a new form at the tip of a bayonet. Sattar came to discover this through their actions against his people. Actions which have been merciless and brutal. When Al Qaeda turned against him, his family suffered. He has lost his father and three brothers to their retribution attacks.-- postpolitical.com
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