cross your fingers, kids
Aug. 18th, 2004 12:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisyphusshruggedit looks as if there may be a solution to the No Exit siege at Najaf
Now the question is: will that nice Mr. Negroponte who we sent over to run the place be willing to look the other way? He's turned down amnesty for Iraqis who fought american troops before, which is one of the ways we ended up shelling a muslim holy place to begin with.
It's not as if he hasn't ignored inconvenient deaths in the interest of policy before
A delegate at Iraq's National Conference in Baghdad says a militant Shiite cleric has agreed to disarm and pull his forces from a shrine in Najaf.
The Shiite delegate says Muqtada al-Sadr has accepted a peace plan a team of delegates took to Najaf Tuesday. Al-Sadr had refused to meet the delegation.
The delegate read a letter from the cleric's Baghdad office to delegates at the conference. In it, the cleric says he "has agreed on the conditions set by the National Conference."
The peace plan also called for al-Sadr's militia to transform into a political party. The fighters would get amnesty.
Now the question is: will that nice Mr. Negroponte who we sent over to run the place be willing to look the other way? He's turned down amnesty for Iraqis who fought american troops before, which is one of the ways we ended up shelling a muslim holy place to begin with.
It's not as if he hasn't ignored inconvenient deaths in the interest of policy before
