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25. Jun 2006

National forsoning i Irak?

 
Ud med de amerikanske og britiske tropper - med en fast tidsplan. Amnesti for alle angreb mod amerikanske, britiske eller irakiske mål. Frigivelse af alle tilfangetagne "terrorister". Erstatning til ofre for amerikanske operationer.

Hvad er dette, oprørernes krav for en fredsløsning, eller hvad? For det er da vist ikke amerikansk Irak-politik ...

Nej, det er ikke amerikansk Irak-politik, men ifølge Newsweek er det faktisk den nye irakiske premierminister Nouri al-Maliki's nye plan for national forsoning.

Newsweek skriver:
Those sound like the demands of some of the insurgents themselves, and in fact they are. But they're also key clauses of a national reconciliation plan drafted by new Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who will unveil it Sunday. The provisions will spark sharp debate in Iraq - but the fiercest opposition is likely to come from Washington, which has opposed any talk of timetables, or of amnesty for insurgents who have attacked American soldiers.

But in Iraq, even a senior military official in the U.S.-led coalition said Friday that the coalition might consider a timetable under certain circumstances. And the official was careful to point out that a distinction needs to be made between terrorists and the resistance.
Det sidste er endog særdeles nye toner: Det fremgår, at en repræsentant for USAs væbnede styrker rent faktisk anerkender, at der er forskel på den væbnede modstand og så den terror, der retter sig mod den irakiske civilbefolkning.

Betyder det, at "koalitionen" (og, men lad os ikke holde vejret, måske ligefrem vores egne regering) vil holde op med at omtale enhver modstand mod besættelsen som "terrorisme"?

Newsweek fortsætter i hvert fald sådan her:
Prime Minister Maliki will present the document to the National Assembly when it convenes on Sunday, and it's expected to be debated over the coming week. Maliki has made reconciliation and control of party militias the main emphasis of his new government. This plan follows a series of secret negotiations over the past two months between seven insurgent groups, President Jalal Talabani and officials of the U.S. embassy. The insurgent groups involved are Sunnis but do not include foreign jihadis like al Qaeda and other terrorist factions who deliberately target civilians; those groups have always denounced any negotiations.

The distinction between insurgents and terrorists is one of the key principles in the document, and is in response to Sunni politicians' demands that the "national resistance" should not be punished for what they see as legitimate self-defense in attacks against a foreign occupying power.
Men hvad siger de udenlandske styrker til ideen om en tidsplan med datoer og det hele? Vel, en repræsentant for det amerikanske militær siger, at "if men of goodwill sit down together and exchange ideas, which might be defined either by a timetable or by ... sets of conditions, there must be a capacity to find common ground".

Amerikanerne kan forventes at være kede af tanken om amnesti for angreb på amerikanske soldater, men det er nok uundgåeligt, hvis man skal nå nogen form for aftale med oprørerne.

Der er mange ting, der skal falde på plads, men dette her er faktisk det første tegn på gode nyheder fra Irak, vi har hørt i meget lang tid!

Lad os give den en forsigtig thumbs-up og håbe, Maliki kan og vil manøvrere den i land.

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