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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Iraq urges coalition not to panic, run

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LONDON -- Coalition troops must stay in Iraq and not give way to defeatism or panic in the face of hostile public opinion, Iraq's deputy prime minister said after meeting British leaders yesterday.

Iraqi forces will increasingly take over responsibility for the country's stability from coalition troops, said Barham Saleh, an influential Kurd with long ties to the United States and Britain.

He urged officials to ignore an increasingly pessimistic tone in the debate over Iraq's future.

"I do believe there is no option for the international community to cut and run," Mr. Saleh said after talks with Prime Minister Tony Blair. "We need to understand that there is a need of utmost urgency to deal with many of the problems of Iraq, but we must not give in to panic."

Mr. Saleh said he was concerned about what he described as the increasing acrimony in the international debate over Iraq.

"There is too much of a pessimistic tone to this debate -- even I would say in certain circles a defeatist tone," he told the British Broadcasting Corp. before meeting with Mr. Blair.

He said that Iraqi forces will be in control of seven or eight of Iraq's 18 provinces by the end of the year, but that the presence of coalition troops remains crucial as local police and the military try to quell rising violence.

Shi'ite militiamen loyal to a fiery anti-American Shi'ite cleric re-emerged in the troubled southern city of Amarah yesterday, dragging four policemen aligned with a rival Shi'ite militia from their homes and killing them.

Iraq's leaders sent a force of about 500 soldiers to the city late last week after Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militiamen stormed the city and attacked police stations, manned primarily by loyalists of the rival Badr Brigades, also a Shi'ite militia.

At least 25 fighters and police died before politicians won a promise from the Mahdi Army gunmen to leave the streets. In the meantime, virtually all of the Amarah police force went into hiding.

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