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...reconstruction effort in its first months. Says Adams: "There were some of us saying, right from the get-go, 'We think there's a troops-to-task mismatch here--I'm not sure there are enough troops to maintain security.'" Ibrahim al-Janabi, of the Iraqi National Accord (I.N.A.), says that in early March, I.N.A. leader Ayad Alawi, who now sits on the Governing Council, met with top U.S. officials, including Rumsfeld, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of State Colin Powell, to recommend that the U.S. keep the Iraqi army and police force intact to maintain security. Chalabi...
...show him the door? If you're Rupert Murdoch, the answer just might be B. Murdoch seemed at his restless best last week as headlines announced that BSkyB's Tony Ball, who has led the company since 1999, may be on his way out. On his way in, according to unnamed sources in all the papers, is Murdoch's 30-year-old son James. For many public companies, such a move would be considered drastic for its blatant nepotism. But this tasted like vintage Murdoch. For decades the global mogul has made a habit of replacing successful bosses within...
...coup against Gbagbo. The band of eight French and Ivorian nationals was led by Ibrahim Coulibaly - a renegade Ivory Coast army soldier who spearheaded a successful 1999 putsch, and was involved in a rebellion last September that plunged the country into civil war. Since January, a French-brokered peace accord has left the nation divided between government and rebel-controlled zones. A would-be reconciliation government composed of members from both factions has become bogged down in mutual hostility and distrust. Ironically, Gbagbo supporters who have long suspected France of colluding with rebels applauded the Paris arrests, while government members...
...October 1994, the U.S. and North Korea concluded a tense, two-year standoff with an accord that seemed to usher in a new era of cooperation in North Asia. By signing a deal called the Agreed Framework, the U.S. promised to provide impoverished North Korea with energy assistance. In exchange, the North agreed to halt production of plutonium that could be used to make nuclear weapons. Countries in the Stalinist state's menacing nuclear shadow breathed easier as then President Bill Clinton congratulated his envoys for coaxing the backward dictatorship toward joining the global community. On the day the agreement...
...Cape Town's mayor. "Little do they know. Our international links are strong." - By Simon Robinson and Peter Hawthorne A Fragile Peace LIBERIA A peace deal signed by government and rebel groups in Liberia lasted just five days as fighting reportedly broke out in Buchanan late last week. The accord, designed to halt almost 15 years of deadly conflict, calls for an interim authority to assume control in October...