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LONDON, OCT. 20. The U.N. Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, has appealed for U.S. forces to show restraint in any coming battle to purge the Sunni triangle, including Fallujah, of insurgents, and so prepare the way for elections in Iraq in January. Mr. Annan, who has in the past declared the invasion of Iraq unlawful, said it was now all hands on deck to achieve security and elections in Iraq. Asked whether an attack on Fallujah should take place, he said: ``I think in these kinds of situations you have two wars going on, you have a war for the minds and hearts of the people, as well as the efforts to try and bring down the violence, and the two have to go together.'' He was speaking at a joint press conference in London with the British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, who said the U.K. was looking sympathetically at the U.S. request to send 650 troops to an area south of Baghdad, freeing U.S. marines to prepare for an assault on Fallujah.
Decision this week
He insisted any deployment was designed to ensure elections would go ahead. A decision in principle from military advisers was still likely this week, he said. This is seen as an extremely short time for military commanders to decide on such an important issue, unless they had already in effect made up their minds. The British also discussed with Mr. Annan the need to put more U.N. officials into Iraq to oversee the elections. — © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004
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