[Peace-discuss] 500 Iraqi Scholars Meet to End U.S. Occupation

[C. G. Estabrook]

[From Monday's (5/10) Democracy Now!, the story that Jan mentioned at
tonight's meeting.  --CGE]

In Iraq, 500 Iraqi scholars met in Baghdad this weekend to develop a plan
to end the U.S. occupation. The organizers called themselves the United
Iraqi Scholars Group and included Shia, Sunni and Kurdish scholars who
opposed the US presence in Iraq. According to the BBC, the conference set
up a 16-member panel and pledged to boycott any US-sponsored political
group, including the Iraqi Governing Council. The group also pledged to
re-establish the national army and to restore sovereignty under the
auspices of the United Nations.

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