Hashemi calls for talks with insurgents

Tariq al-Hashemi, a Sunni, is one of two Iraqi vice-presidents.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi called on Wednesday for talks with the country’s insurgent groups, as the Pentagon claimed Al Qaeda is using children as fodder in their brutal war in Iraq...

“I do believe there is no way but to talk to everybody,” said Hashemi, who is due in Tokyo later Wednesday.

All parties “should be invited, should be called to sit down around the table to discuss their fears, their reservations,” he said, while adding that Al Qaeda was “not very much willing, in fact, to talk to anybody.”

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