Iraqi President Criticizes Study Group Report - AP

Iraqi President Criticizes Study Group Report
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 10, 2006
Filed at 8:51 a.m. ET

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- "The Iraqi president said Sunday the bipartisan U.S. report calling for a new approach to the war offered dangerous recommendations that would undermine his country's sovereignty and were ''an insult to the people of Iraq.''

President Jalal Talabani was the most senior government official to take a stand against the Iraq Study Group report, which has come under criticism from leaders of the governing Shiite and Kurdish parties.

He said the report ''is not fair, is not just, and it contains some very dangerous articles which undermine the sovereignty of Iraq and the constitution.''

He singled out the report's call for the approval of a de-Baathification law that could allow thousands of officials from Saddam Hussein's ousted Baath party to return to their jobs.

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