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U.S. Rejects Peace Plan From Sunni Leaders

HeadlineNov 08, 2004

Meanwhile Sunni leaders from the * Association of Muslim Scholars have put forth a peace plan* that the US seems to have all but rejected with almost no public discussion. Up until now the Sunni group has been advocating for resistance against the US and its puppet government in Baghdad as well as a possible boycott of the elections slated for January. The Sunni groups offered to withdraw their support for violence and to openly support the elections if the US did not attack Fallujah and if the US confined its troops to their bases in the month before balloting.

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