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...Britain and virtually every major country around the world." Although Bush and Blair's sentiment was echoed by interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, such language was rarer among Iraqi voters, who tended to see the election as the fruit of their own efforts, most notably those of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, whose interventions forced the U.S. to scrap its own plan for a handpicked government to write the new constitution and instead accept Sistani's demand for elections. Indeed, many voters at the polls saw voting as a means of ending ?the occupation,? the collective noun by which many Iraqis...
...strong clerical influence in the Shiite United Iraqi Alliance list may well be alienating more secular Shiites. Still, the more widely held view is that the best Allawi can hope for is a good second-place showing behind the Shiite United Iraqi Alliance list backed by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. But the Guardian notes even a second-place finish could see Allawi keep the prime minister's job. That's because some Shiite leaders are now suggesting it may be a poisoned chalice, and that their own leaders should only be put forward once a new constitution is in place...
...also possible now that armed Shi'ite militias-members of the Badr Brigade, for example, who have been providing local security throughout the south-may be more willing to be reorganized and retrained to defend a central government that Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani has blessed. That may be too optimistic, especially in a country where pessimism usually equals reality but, at long last, it is not unthinkable...
...have begun to build a mosque there. The first to discover the desecration was a group of children who picked up bones and skulls and took them away as toys. Such horrors are all too common in Somalia. "For 14 years we have been living like this," says Dahir Ali Adow, 22, a student at Mogadishu University. "What we need is law and order to restore the peace." Many Somalis, and plenty of Western leaders, had hoped the anarchy would end after the formation of a new government last October, the result of two years of talks in neighboring Kenya...
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