Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called for forgiveness on Friday for allies of Saddam Hussein. "We must reconcile with those committed mistakes, who were obliged in that difficult era to side with the past regime. Today they are again sons of Iraq," Maliki told a meeting of tribal leaders in Baghdad.
"We will reconcile with them, but on the condition they come back to us and turn the page on that dark part of Iraq's history ... What happened, happened," he stated, according to Reuters.
Meanwhile, on Friday, a roadside bomb went off near a police checkpoint in Mishahda, 30 kilometers north of Baghdad, killing two policemen and injuring three others, said an Iraqi police official, according to the AP. In northern Iraq, a roadside bomb exploded in Tikrit, killing two people in a car, another police official said.
