U.S. Holds Secret Negotiations With Baathists
Baghdad, Sept 8, (VOI) – Iyad Jamal al-Din, a member of parliament from the Iraqi National List (INL) bloc, said he mediated between U.S. officials and Baathists belonging to former Iraqi vice president Ezzat al-Dori to boost the political process.
“They were several meetings that took place inside and outside Iraq,” Jamal al-Din, who belongs to former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s INL, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
He said the meetings “were convened in Arab countries.” He declined to name those Arab countries or say when those meetings were held.
“The meetings or negotiations were not meant against the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. On the contrary, they were supporting it and would be of benefit to the country’s political process,” he said.
He pointed out that the Baathists, or members of the former ruling Baath (Resurrection) Party, “objected the law on debaathification and the Americans spoke to them about means to push forward the political process.”
Allawi had said he met secretly with representatives from the dissolved Baath Party’s Ezzat al-Dori wing with the aim of arranging their return to Iraq and participate in the political process.
“The dialogue has taken place upon the request of the United States, which was represented by high-ranking officials in those meetings. The discussions focused on how to merge the Baath Party members into the political process,” Allawi said in a televised interview by the all-news Dubai-based al-Arabiya satellite channel.
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This ain’t nothing new. The US has pushed hard to reconcile all parties in Iraq. If it works…then hot damn…And the slumber party will no doubt try to spin that outcome too.
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September 8th, 2007 at 2:02 pmYou’d think after 6000 years that have had it all figured out by now. To paraphrase the AFLAC goat, “nah, nah, nah”.
September 8th, 2007 at 2:10 pm