EXECUTE SADDAM ALREADY:

7 Sunni insurgent groups reportedly seek truce under reconciliation plan (SAMEER YACOUB, 6/26/06, AP)

Seven Sunni Arab insurgent groups have contacted the government to declare their readiness to join in efforts at national reconciliation, a key Shiite legislator said Monday.

The seven lesser groups, most of them believed populated by former members or backers of Saddam Hussein's government, military or security agencies, have said they want a truce, said Hassan al-Suneid, a legislator and member of the political bureau of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Dawa Party.

The contact by the insurgent organizations, which could not be independently verified, would mark an important potential shift and stand as evidence of a growing divide between Iraqi insurgents and the more brutal and ideological fighters of "al-Qaida in Iraq," who are believed to mainly be non-Iraqi Islamic militants.

Leaving their rallying point alive has obviously been one of the key mistakes of the war.

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 26, 2006 7:49 AM