MSNBC/Reuters: "Iraqi rebels demand Fallujah pullout before cease-fire"

[darkstar]

"Demanding coalition troops pull back to 5 mile perimeter."

Sorry. No link. All they said. Turned on TV, brief report, back to some business profile.


on edit:
found Reuters link and story--

Falluja Fighters Demand U.S. Pullout Before Cease-fire
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040410/ts_nm/iraq_talks_dc&cid=564&ncid=1478

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi rebels fighting U.S. forces in the Sunni Muslim city of Falluja will agree to hold cease-fire talks if Marines withdraw from the city, an Iraqi negotiating team said on Saturday.



"They want to see U.S. forces pull out to something like five km (three miles) outside the city. No cease-fire can take place while the U.S. forces keep pounding Falluja," Qahtan al-Rubaie, a spokesman for the Iraqi Islamic Party, told Reuters.

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[Tinoire]

1. Sounds like they are kicking neo-con ass!

We will not negotiate, we will not negotiate... oops yes we will!


No ceasefire can take place while the U.S. forces keep pounding Falluja," Qahtan al-Rubaie, a spokesman for the Iraqi Islamic Party, told Reuters on Saturday.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=491782§ion=news

[CabalBuster]

2. Iraqis shouldn't trust the U.S....even if they negotiate a cease fire

The US army will break the cease fire and attack them by surprise. The military top brass has promised to eliminate the Al-Sadr army and they will if given a chance. This is just a diversionary tactic the US is using, I'm afraid.

[DS1]

3. If the Marines comply, I'll eat my shorts

within 24 hours, starting at noon eastern stardard time of course

[0007]

7. I smell a rat

[DS1]

8. You smell a rat, huh?

Pray tell whatever you could mean.

[daleo]

4. It seems to me this is at least partly psychological

Neither side would want to cede ground for a ceasefire - it must be demoralizing to have to recapture the same ground that you have fought over and had comrades killed or wounded in. For the U.S. forces to even consider this, they must be low on supplies and ammunition.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. Bet they retreat and then say they didn't

and call it something else.

How many times are they going to have to "take" Falluja and "Win"
the war in Iraq?

I have yet to be mistaken when it comes to not believing ANYTHING that this administration casts out as facts or the "truth".

[sspiderjohn]

6. Do the Iraqi's know the US 3rd battalion is on its way there?

nt

[Robbien]

9. The Iraqis are upping the stakes

Iraq Militants Threaten to Kill American

Saturday April 10, 2004 8:16 PM


BAGHDAD (AP) - Militants on Saturday threatened to kill and mutilate Thomas Hamill, an American civilian captured during the ambush of a convoy west of Baghdad.

In a videotape given to the Al-Jazeera television network, Hamill was shown in front of an Iraqi flag. A spokesman off camera demanded that U.S. troops end their siege of the city of Fallujah, where four American civilians were killed and mutilated last week.

``Our only demand is to remove the siege from the city of mosques,'' a spokesman said in a tape given to the Al-Jazeera television network. ``If you don't respond within 12 hours ... he will be treated worse than those who were killed and burned in Fallujah.''

Hamill was captured by gunmen who rocketed a fuel convoy on the road between Baghdad and Fallujah on Friday. He identified himself to a reporter for Australian television seconds before being whisked away in a car by gunmen.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3962966,00.html

[dArKeR]

10. Support for al-Sadr seen widening

AP , BAGHDAD, IRAQ
Sunday, Apr 11, 2004,Page 7

At least 20,000 worshippers, about twice the usual number, gathered for weekly prayers at a mosque run by radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, indicating that he may be winning sympathy from more Shiites as his militia challenges US authority in Baghdad as well as across central and southern Iraq.

Aided by hundreds of young seminary students, the 30-year-old cleric and his supporters have in recent days boasted of widening support after mass protests and fighting this week with US and other coalition troops.

"Our movement is stronger today than it was a week ago," said Ibrahim al-Janabi, a senior al-Sadr aide. "But most important of all is that God is on our side," he said Friday after prayers in Sadr City, the movement's Baghdad stronghold.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/04/11/2003136230

This pic in the story; I haven't seen many pics of this many people gathered together:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/photo/2004/04/11/2003124812