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AP. 12 October 2002. Iraqi dissidents dismayed at reports of postwar plans for Iraq. [Alternative title: No honor among thieves.] CAIRO -- Iraqi dissidents expressed dismay Friday at U.S. plans for postwar Iraq that might involve foreign military control of the country. Pentagon officials said Friday the U.S. administration is working on postwar plans that could include using American and other foreign troops as a stabilizing force until a government is formed to replace that of Saddam Hussein. "This is not what we were told," said Hamid al-Bayati, a representative of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a leading Shiite-led opposition group. "We were told by American officials that they want a broad-based Iraqi government ... with no direct American role," al-Bayati said. Al-Bayati was a member of an Iraqi opposition delegation that met with U.S. officials in August under the umbrella of the Iraqi National Congress, a coalition of groups opposed to the Iraqi regime. "They can't do that. The Iraqi people will not accept it and nobody else in the region will," he said in a telephone interview from London. Hazem el-Youssefi, a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, said "The Iraqi opposition after all these years will not settle for a foreign occupation." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ProletarianNews http://www.utopia2000.org --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
