Sadr Offers Peace Talks to US

[TeeYiYi]

Sadr Offers Peace Talks to US

Naseer Al-Nahr
Arab News 

BAGHDAD, 15 April 2004 — Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr offered the US unconditional talks to spare Najaf a bloodbath as coalition forces tightened their grip around one of Iraq’s holiest cities yesterday.

Sadr, whom the US have vowed to kill or capture, launched an anti-US uprising this month. He is now holed up in Najaf and had dropped previous conditions for talks with US authorities, his spokesman said.

US troops, embroiled in a two-front battle against Sadr’s resistance fighters and Sunni resistance fighters that has pitched Iraq into its bloodiest period since Saddam Hussein’s fall a year ago, said they had not seen any sign of Sadr’s forces backing down. “The indication I’m getting is that they are not retreating,” said Col. Dana Pittard, commander of the 3rd Brigade Task Force poised outside Najaf. “They are reinforcing their positions inside the city.”

The US military announced eight more American soldiers had died in combat, bringing to 93 the number killed in action in April — four more than in the three-week war that toppled Saddam last year.

More: http://www.aljazeerah.info/15n/Sadr%20Offers%20Peace%20Talks%20to%20US.htm

TYY

[G_j]

1. and the question is

will they talk to him? Of course not, it's capture or kill, not talk.

[Chicago Democrat]

2. Our stupid leaders are deaf and blind.

They will kill him. Then Iraq will explode. Then Kerry will win.

And I shall be sad.

How can we possibly celebrate when so many, many people have died because of the hubris of Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, John Ashcroft and their armies of lackeys and whores. The blood of those who died cries out in the wilderness. "lies! lies! all this for lies!"

God Save America

God Save Iraq

God preserve mankind from men like them