An Interview with Iraqi Foreign Minister
Hoshyar Zebari in a statement said that US military forces will not stay in Iraq as long as some American politicians are demanding. A statement by the republican presidential candidate, Senator John McCain, caused anger amongst Iraqis. In an interview to The Independent in Baghdad, when asked that if the American army would be in Iraq in 10 years, he said: “Really, I wouldn’t say so.”
A year ago Mr. Zeberi was more confident about that Al-Qaeda has been crushed, if not completely but it is been network been shattered badly. He says that it is important for Shia-kkurdish government to absorb into its security forces 70,000strong Sunni awakening movement which is fighting Al-Qaeda. He says that it is essential to involve Sunni Awakening movement as it is relatively new and immature political party which makes it more vulnerable to be manipulated by Al-Qaeda, He also added that not all the Sunni political leaders represent the Iraqi Sunni community.
Mr. Zebari started his career as a spokesman and foreign representative of the Kurdish government Party , those were the years of resistance against Saddam Hussein, He is one of the successful ministers in Iraq, Ever since his first appointment in 2004,he initiated goodwill with US and Iran. He has been surviving and dodged several assassination attempts by the insurgents.
Mr. Zebari is optimistic about the future peace in the country, but so far the socio political conditions of a country are not favourable for any peaceful developments. Iraq remains a violent country, recently a suicide bomber killed Brigadier General Salih Mohammad Hassan, who was chief of police of Mosul, largest city in the Northern Iraq. Brigadier Salih was inspecting the ruin s of buildings in which 20 people were killed, just a day before his assassination, in a bomb explosion.
The Iraqi nation along with its political leaders are looking forward to sign a bilateral treaty with US which will determine that who would rule the nation. This bilateral treaty aims at settling issues such as Iraqi sovereignty, command and control of Iraqi security forces, and the immunity of foreign troops and private security companies. The Iraqi intelligence service, at present controlled and financed by the CIA, will be brought under Iraqi government control.
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1 Patrick Cockburn, US Troops Will Be In Iraq for 10 More Years,www.counterpunch.com
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