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The United States plans to launch a campaign to oust Saddam Hussein in Iraq as part of the international campaign against terrorism. The plan calls for U.S. aerial bombing to support anti-Saddam opposition forces in the country.
The plan was revealed by Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper, which reported last week that the so-called “Rumsfeld Plan” – named after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld – calls for setting up a secular, pluralist, democratic Iraq and preserving Iraq’s current borders after Saddam is ousted. The newspaper is Turkey’s largest circulation daily.
The plan was said to have been discussed during Rumsfeld’s trip to Ankara, Turkey, last month.
The newspaper listed the main features of the plan:
- Iraq’s territorial integrity will be preserved, and there will be no autonomous regions or federative structures within the country.
- All the various ethnic groups will be represented in the central government that is formed after Saddam’s ouster, including Kurds and Turkmens.
- Turkey will enter northern Iraq and obtain a share of the oil at the Karkuk field. Business and foreign trade in Iraq will exceed $50 billion, a key benefit to Turkey. Discussion of the transfer of energy, specifically a natural gas pipeline from Iraq to Turkey, will be a priority.
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