Pertemuan-pertemuan dimulai sejak awal 2006, dan mungkin yang pertama kalinya diupayakan dalam menjalin kontak antara pejabat-pejabat senior AS di Baghdad dengan pemberontak Arab Sunni, kata laporan tersebut.
The meetings began in early 2006 and were possibly the first attempts at sustained contact between senior US officials in Baghdad and the Sunni Arab insurgency, the report said.