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Iraqi group appeals to UN to put their nation under its supervision

Published: March 12, 2008

CAIRO, Egypt: A group of Iraqi tribal leaders, former politicians and intellectuals appealed Wednesday to the United Nations to take control of Iraq, in a move they say would help U.S. troops leave the beleaguered country.

The letter addressed to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was delivered to the Cairo offices of the organization by the coordinators of the group which they say counts scores of influential Iraqis among its members.

The coordinators include Adeeb al-Jadir, Ahmed Al-Haboubi and Nouri Abdel Razak Hussein, politicians overthrown in 1968 when Saddam Hussein's Baath party came to power and long part of the liberal anti-regime opposition prior to the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

"We believe that such a move requires putting Iraq under the U.N. supervision for a limited period of time so that it can move the political process back on its natural and correct track," the letter said.

The U.N. dramatically curtailed its operations in Iraq after an August 2003 suicide attack killed its representative and scores of others. Both the U.S. administration and the Baghdad government are unlikely to endorse the petition.

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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/...EN-Iraq-UN.php