The new president of Iraq, Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani, said Sunday the new Iraqi government should extend amnesty to Iraqi insurgents who had "killed combatants, including possibly US and Iraqi troops." (Iraqi insurgents are primarily supporters of the previous regime, or Iraqi citizens opposed to US "occupation" of Iraq.) The Washington Post reports that Mr. Talabani said, however, that Al Qaeda members and other foreign fighters should not be included in any general amnesty.
'There are two kinds of killing [said Talabani]: In battle or in action, this could be covered by the amnesty. Those who are involved in killing innocent people, detonation of car bombs, killing people in mosques and in churches, these would not be covered by the amnesty.'
Talabani did not specifically if his proposal "would include those who had killed US troops," but he did call for the amnesty to cover fighters loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. He also did not offer any specifics on an amnesty.
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