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...created the world in six days. How can we expect Allawi to improve things in one?" ADIL JABBAR, Baghdad merchant, commenting on high expectations in Iraq for its new Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi...
...Much now hinges on Allawi's ability to balance, confront, accommodate, console and placate the competing interests of a diverse group of Iraqi constituencies who now sense that the future is in play. Because one of the defining features of the current transition is that there is no clear Plan...
...MAYA ALLERUZZO/POOL Prime Minister Iyad Allawi...
...Interim Government The Players: The top tier of the Interim Government headed by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi are survivors of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, and the new administration's composition reflects a similar concern by its creators (primarily the U.S.) to balance representation among Iraqi ethnic groups. As a caretaker government, its mandate is strictly limited to organizing elections currently scheduled for January 2 to choose a new government. And it has defined security as its primary concern on the road to elections...
...Script: The new government faces the unenviable challenge of establishing its own legitimacy in the eyes of ordinary Iraqis at the same time as adopting strong measures to help restore security. Thus, it has talked about adopting martial law, or similar emergency measures that may prove controversial, but which Allawi hopes will suppress the insurgency that has ravaged Iraq for the past 15 months. And the new prime minister also plans to resurrect whole divisions of Saddam's old army to help him do it. The insurgency does not represent the only challenge on the road to elections, however - although...