Dissidents to Boycott Iraq Talks
The main Iraqi Shiite opposition group said Wednesday that it would boycott a political meeting the United States is trying to arrange in southern Iraq next week because of the U.S. military presence.
“We are not going to take part in this meeting in Nasiriyah. We think this is part of Gen. [Jay] Garner’s rule of Iraq and we are not going to be part of that project at all,” said Hamid Bayati, the London representative of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
Bayati’s Tehran-based group is one of the largest single groups in opposition to Saddam Hussein.
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