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...unspoken argument for hand-picking Iraqis is Washington's paranoia that in free elections, Iranian-backed fundamentalists will dominate the Shiites, and as 60% of the population, the Shiites will dominate Iraq. The Bush Administration fears they will replace Saddam with Khomeini. But Grand Ayatullah Ali Sistani is the top Shiite cleric in Iraq and he opposes theocractic rule. Rather than leading chants of "Death to America," he's been working quietly to help restore order. But the moderates will lose if America is seen to be marginalizing the Shiites. They win if the Shiites see that America is helping...
...governing structure to emerge from a national assembly is facing mounting criticism from all sides. The most serious blow came this week in the form of a 'fatwa' by Iraq's leading Shiite cleric denouncing Bremer's plan and insisting that Iraqis chose their own leaders. Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani is considered a moderate who has encouraged Iraq's Shiite majority to work with the occupation forces; his fatwa will make it extremely difficult for Bremer's plan to win popular acceptance...
Here's a tale for our times. Last week Ali Abbas, the 13-year-old Iraqi boy who lost his arms during an air raid on Baghdad, continued his recuperation in a hospital in Kuwait, wearing a T shirt emblazoned with a picture of his hero, an English soccer star who was about to start a promotional tour of Japan after having just been traded to a Spanish club in a deal--vital to the fortunes of a German shoe company--that merited an editorial in the New York Times and that was brokered by a sports agency owned...
Somewhere, there's a lesson in that for Europe's leaders. Meanwhile, a note to Real's marketing department: Ali Abbas needs a new shirt. --With reporting by Kristen Bolt
...schizoid regime in Iran--technically led by President Mohammed Khatami, whose attempts at reform have been stymied by supreme religious leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei--may be able to quell this rebellion, as it did a similar movement in 1999, aided by progovernment civilian militias. "Our leader has ordered us to protect the revolution," said Assad, a corpulent militia member, as he attempted to stop cars heading to the protests Friday. Assad characterizes the students as "prostitutes and gays...