DAR AL ISLAM - IRAQ: AL MALIKI AGREES TO 80% OF THE DEMANDS MADE BY 'MILITANT LEADERS'

‘Iraq agrees to majority of militias’ demands’

BAGHDAD - Tribal affairs advisors to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki met with militant leaders within the last few weeks, agreeing to 80 per cent of their requests, reports said on Thursday.

State-run Al Sabah newspaper reported that “the communications between the two sides indicated that many militias are ready to play a positive role in Iraqi political life.”

The report said that the militias had “expressed their opposition towards Al Qaeda terrorist network’s actions and its ideology, which doesn’t conform with the Iraqis’ culture.”

The demands of the militias presented during the talks, the report says, were “positive and attainable” and that “80 per cent of these requests will be met.”

Some militias, according to Al Sabah, needed to feel “a sense of security with regard to their political participation and how their members will be dealt with after they will have been disarmed.”


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