Iraqi Government Cancels Military Operation at Arab League Request
Posted on: Sunday, 27 November 2005, 12:00 CST
Excerpt from report by Iraqi Al-Sharqiyah TV on 27 November
The Iraqi government has decided not to carry out an attack planned against positions of armed groups in response to a request by Arab League Secretary-General Amr Musa, whom the Association of Muslim Scholars [AMS] in Iraq had urged to intervene to stop the operation.
Iraqi Interior Minister Baqir Jabr Sulagh today announced that Iraqi President Jalal Talabani had asked him not to carry out the operation, which was planned to be launched before or after the legislative elections scheduled for 15 December, in response to a request he received during a telephone call from the Arab League secretary-general.
During a presentation before the peace-keeping forces last Thursday [24 November], Sulagh said that, according to the plan, some 10,000 security elements backed by 1,000 military vehicles will swoop down on what he termed terrorist positions in various areas in Iraq. [Passage omitted]
Source: BBC Monitoring Middle East
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