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Iraq
's interim Governing Council has launched a "comprehensive"
anti-terror plan to stem the rising wave of attacks plaguing the
war-ravaged country, said its current president Jalal Talabani
yesterday.
"The plan includes military and defensive measures taken by (Iraqi)
forces and the political parties," Talabani told a press conference
in Baghdad.
Talabani, who heads the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) did not
provide further details on the plan, but said that an anti-terror
media campaign would be launched throughout Iraq next month.
He said that only "ten per cent of Iraq's territories were affected
by terrorism".
In a commentary published in the Wall Street Journal last week,
Talabani called those waging attacks on US troops and Iraqis,
terrorists forming "a classic unholy Middle Eastern alliance" of
Baathists and foreign Islamic volunteers, including members of
Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network.
He said that Iraqis must take the lead in defeating terror and
suggested recruiting 60 000 Peshmerga (Kurdish guerrillas) who
fought alongside the US-led coalition in the war that toppled
former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in April. – Sapa-AFP.
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