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Prime Minister al-Makili: Amnesty To Exclude Killers of GIs, Iraqis
by Joshua Partlow and Bassam Sebti, Washington Post LRRPrime Minister Nouri al-Maliki vowed Tuesday that no one who has killed Americans or Iraqis would be pardoned under his government's national reconciliation plan. "The fighter who did not kill anyone will be included in the amnesty, but the fighter who killed someone will not be," Maliki said in his first interview with Western print reporters since he became prime minister last month. "This is an international commitment, an ethical commitment: Whoever kills is not included in amnesty." This is probably an opening bid. I'd expect amnesty, or at least leniency, to be extended to low-level cannon fodder and to anyone who turns states evidence on their al-Qaida connections. Posted by: Mike 2006-06-28 |
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