U.S. Forces Arrest Iraqi Negotiator, Strike Falluja

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U.S. forces arrested Falluja's chief negotiator on Friday after air strikes on the rebel-held city that were part of a U.S. drive to thwart attacks in Iraq during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.


A hospital doctor, Thamim al-Nuaimi, said five civilians had been killed and 11 wounded in the overnight raids.


Falluja police, who do not answer to the U.S.-backed interim government, said U.S. marines detained Sunni Muslim cleric Khaled al-Jumaili, the city's police chief and two other police officers while they were moving their families to a nearby resort town for safety from American air raids.


There was no immediate comment from U.S. officials on the arrest of Jumaili, who had been leading a Falluja delegation in peace talks with the government that broke down this week.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=2&u=/nm/20041015/ts_nm/iraq_dc

Note: I believe the "strike" here refers to an event subsequent to the previous Friday strike

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1. Don't get the result you want? Arrest the opposing negotiator!!...

Now that's real NeoCon diplomacy at work.

What was that they told the Taliban negotiators in August 2001? Wasn't it, "You can have a carpet of gold or carpet bombing"?

Same old story.

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2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=906385