Reply #11: New US ambassador vows to crush Iraq's insurgency

[Judi Lynn]

New US ambassador vows to crush Iraq's insurgency

June 21, 2005, 14:03 gmt



Zalmay Khalilzad (L) submits his credentials to Jalal Talabani
© AFP Sabah Arar
BAGHDAD (AFP) - The new US ambassador to Iraq pledged to work with Iraqis to crush the ruthless insurgency that is throttling much of the country despite US-led offensives against the rebels.

The new US ambassador to Iraq pledged to work with Iraqis to crush the ruthless insurgency that is throttling much of the country despite US-led offensives against the rebels.
"I will work with Iraqis to break the back of the insurgency," said Zalmay Khalilzad, who presented his credentials to President Jalal Talabani on the way to Brussels for an international conference on rebuilding Iraq.

"Foreign terrorists and hardline Baathists want Iraq to be in a civil war," Khalilzad told reporters Tuesday, referring to members of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's Baath Party.

"Foreign terrorists are using Iraqis as cannon fodder."
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