Insurgents form political front to plan for US pullout

[rodeodance]

Source: guardian



Insurgents form political front to plan for US pullout
Leaders of Iraqi groups say attacks will go on until Americans leave

Seumas Milne in Damascus
Thursday July 19, 2007
The Guardian


Seven of the most important Sunni-led insurgent organisations fighting the US occupation in Iraq have agreed to form a public political alliance with the aim of preparing for negotiations in advance of an American withdrawal, their leaders have told the Guardian.

In their first interview with the western media since the US-British invasion of 2003, leaders of three of the insurgent groups - responsible for thousands of attacks against US and Iraqi armed forces and police - said they would continue their armed resistance until all foreign troops were withdrawn from Iraq, and denounced al-Qaida for sectarian killings and suicide bombings against civilians.

Speaking in Damascus, the spokesmen for the three groups - the 1920 Revolution Brigades, Ansar al-Sunna and Iraqi Hamas - said they planned to hold a congress to launch a united front and appealed to Arab governments, other governments and the UN to help them establish a permanent political presence outside Iraq.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2129675,00.html

[rodeodance]

1. "US-British invasion of 2003,"---umm.. I like the phase.

[dipsydoodle]

2. There is a risk that the number of groups

will become almost farcical as in The Peoples Front :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE

[killbotfactory]

4. Wait... the People's Front of Judea? Or the Judean People's Front?

[David__77]

5. In all seriousness, I don't think so.

The Iraqis don't have the permissive "consensus" standpoint that is so popular in the Western left.

[wageslave71]

3. I can hear it already....

The RWers will blame this on the Senate's proposed troop withdrawal. Dems have emboldened the enemy, defeatists, traitors, blah, blah, blah.