Peace deal offers Iraq insurgents an amnesty

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THE Iraqi Government will announce a sweeping peace plan as early as Sunday in a last-ditch effort to end the Sunni insurgency that has taken the country to the brink of civil war.

The 28-point package for national reconciliation will offer Iraqi resistance groups inclusion in the political process and an amnesty for their prisoners if they renounce violence and lay down their arms, The Times can reveal.

The Government will promise a finite, UN-approved timeline for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Iraq; a halt to US operations against insurgent strongholds; an end to human rights violations, including those by coalition troops; and compensation for victims of attacks by terrorists or Iraqi and coalition forces.

It will pledge to take action against Shia militias and death squads. It will also offer to review the process of “de-Baathification” and financial compensation for the thousands of Sunnis who were purged from senior jobs in the Armed Forces and Civil Service after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-2239088,00.html

[MercutioATC]

Hehehe. Our own Dems won't do it, but Iraq will.

Looks like we're getting a timeline after all (well, maybe).

[grytpype]

1. If this doesn't work, nothing will. Seriously.

But Duhbya won't like stuff about timetables, too much like cut and run.

[pinto]

2. If this is more than PR, I'd love to see them make a presentation

to the UN.

"The Government will promise a finite, UN-approved timeline for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Iraq;"

It'd have to to the General Assembly - Iraq has no standing in the Security Council - but, if their government is serious, I say go for it & take it to the UN.