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Group of Iraqis asks UN to take over
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| News Date | Thursday, March 13, 2008 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | group of Iraqi tribal leaders, former politicians and intellectuals appealed Wednesday to the United Nations to take control of Iraq in a move they say would help US troops leave the beleaguered country.
Both the US administration and the Baghdad government are unlikely to endorse the request, which was addressed to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and delivered to the Cairo offices of the organization.
"We believe that the only opportunity left for Iraq to be saved from a dark, but not inevitable future, is to engage the international community represented by the United Nations," the letter said. "Such a step will allow the American troops to leave and the occupation to be brought to its end."
The group's coordinators include Adeeb al-Jadir, Ahmed Al-Haboubi and Nouri Abdel Razak Hussein, politicians overthrown in 1968 when Saddam Hussein's Baath party came to power and long part of the liberal anti-regime opposition prior to the US-led invasion in 2003.
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