A man claiming to speak for a major Iraqi insurgent group said Sunday that the United States had tried unsuccessfully to establish contact with his group.
Speaking on Al-Jazeera television, the purported spokesman for the 1920 Revolution Brigades said the U.S. bid to contact his group failed because ``intermediaries'' used by the Americans were deemed unworthy.
``We don't believe the Americans are serious,'' added the spokesman, identified as Sheik Abdullah Suleiman al-Amri, who appeared in traditional Arab dress but with his face concealed.
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Al-Amri did not identify the intermediaries his group rejected, but earlier in the interview he sharply criticized Sunni Arab politicians who joined Iraq's Shiite-dominated, U.S.-sponsored political process.
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