US Ambassador to Iraq admits some Iraqis who fought Americans will receive amnesty

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19140627/site/newsweek/page/2/

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The challenge now is to get them to stop killing Americans and each other. The idea, Crocker says, is "to reduce the number of people you've got to fight to an absolute minimum" by sorting out the "reconcilables" from the "irreconcilables." Determining which is which will mostly be left to the Iraqi government. Asked by NEWSWEEK if this won't amount to a don't-ask-don't-tell policy for Iraqis with American blood on their hands, he re-plies: "That's your phrase." Still, he agrees it's a "fair supposition" that some Iraqis who fought Americans will receive amnesty: "There are people in Anbar right now who're fighting against Al Qaeda—in cooperation with Iraqi forces and Coalition forces—who six months ago were on the other side."

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