 BAGHDAD, June 8 (KUNA) -- Iraqi President Jalal Al-Talabani reiterated on Thursday his call for all Iraqi armed groups who were not implicated in bloody crimes to join the political process in the country, on the heels of the killing of Al-Qaeda chief in Iraq Abu Musaab Al-Zarqawi.
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In a a presidential statement, Talabani said lessons could be derived from every penalty and the "most impressive lesson is the end of the evil doer" (in reference to Zarqawi). He said the "killing of Zarqawi instills confidence in our hearts that punishment would ultimately include the hands stained with blood of the Iraqis", adding that this this is a good omen for the bereave mothers, orphans and fathers who lost their sons.
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In Irbil, chief of Kurdistan-Iraq province Mesoud Al-Barzani said here that the killing of the terrorist Al-Zarqawi and a number of his accomplices is a step on the way for evicting Iraq from the expatriate terrorists.
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Meanwhile Kurdistan Iraq province received the news on slaying Al-Zarqawi with utmost relief at both popular and official levels. Chief of the province's Diwan Dr. Fuad Hussain told Kuna that chief of the province Al-Barzani knew about the slaying of Zarqawi early enough and was very happy for uprooting the lynchpin of terror in Iraq. Barzani added that his killing is a painful blow for the terrorists and would scale down the tempo of terror in Iraq. |