Sunnis condemn Iraq amnesty plan

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5133896.stm

Sunnis condemn Iraq amnesty plan

The amnesty is meant to win over insurgents to the political process
An influential Sunni group in Iraq, the Association of Muslim Scholars, has criticised the government's amnesty offer for insurgents.

One of the group's leaders, Muthanna Harith al-Dari, said it was no more than a public relations exercise.

He said so many groups were excluded from the amnesty that it was meaningless, and most armed groups had already rejected it.

The government has insisted that it has got a positive response to its offer.