Saddam's cousin says US should talk to insurgents

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L07427381.htm

Saddam's cousin says US should talk to insurgents
08 Jul 2005 13:01:05 GMT

Source: Reuters

By Suleiman al-Khalidi

AMMAN, July 8 (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's cousin Muzahem al-Majeed, who spent eight years in prison for opposing his relative, said on Friday U.S. officials must open talks with Sunni Muslim insurgents if they want a tranquil Iraq.

"There should be a dialogue with those leaders or those who represent them if they really want Iraq to stabilise," said Majeed, 39, freed from solitary confinement only after the collapse of Saddam's regime after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

Majeed, deputy head of the broad-based National Salvation Front, a legal political group, told Reuters in Amman during a stop on his way to Iraq, that he was not surprised the Americans were failing to win over many Sunnis and facing a ferocious insurgency.

"The Americans marginalised acceptable figures in Iraq and went along with those who propagated lies before the occupation and who hold sectarian views," Majeed said.

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[Deja Q]

1. And will *co, this time, say they will or say they won't.

They've flip-flopped before...