On Fox News Sunday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld confirmed the US has had secret meetings with Iraqi insurgent leaders.

According to the article in the WaPo, the goal is to "drive a wedge between the Iraqi insurgents and foreigners."

Asked to respond to a report that US military representatives met with several Sunni Iraqi insurgents twice in June, Rumsfeld told Fox News ''there have probably been many more than that" and described the contacts as an effort to ''split people off and get some people to be supportive" of the political process in Iraq.