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...leave Iraq in triumph, the persisting unrest means few Iraqis will be sad to see him go. Members of the now disbanded Governing Council are withering in their criticism of how Bremer treated them--issuing orders and backing them to the wall, rather than consulting. Even the U.N.'s Brahimi has called him "the dictator of Iraq." It wasn't a compliment, but it was close to the mark. This was the hand Bremer was dealt. He was the guy with the broom, standing amid all the broken crockery. He needed to make decisions, and he made them--sometimes...
Your article on U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi [June 7] reported that he compromised with members of the Iraqi Governing Council to select Iyad Allawi, a man also favored by U.S. officials, as the country's interim Prime Minister. That is absolutely incredible. Allawi, like the discredited Ahmad Chalabi, had lived outside Iraq for decades; he was a Baath Party member and a CIA employee. How likely is it that he will be viewed by the Iraqi public as having credibility? When will the Bush Administration learn from its past mistakes? JACK KINSTLINGER Hunt Valley...
Administration officials credit Blackwill with masterminding the U.N.'s return to the country, steering the occupation toward June 30 and brokering the formation of the interim Iraqi government with U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi. "He's not known for his people skills," says his former boss Brent Scowcroft. "But if you want talent, raw talent to get the job done, he is terrific...
...next day, then flew to Washington and was at work on Monday. Among his first tasks was brushing back Pentagon hawks to secure White House control over running the occupation. By early 2003, when Ahmad Chalabi, the Pentagon's favored exile, tried to block the return to Baghdad of Brahimi, Blackwill cornered Chalabi in a room in one of the U.S. administrative buildings. While no one knows what words were exchanged at the meeting, Brahimi was invited back within a week and the U.S. soon cut off its support to Chalabi...
...time, the recent deal to end the fighting in Fallujah, which handed security responsibility to a unit composed largely of officers of the former military and included some insurgents in its ranks, suggested that at least some among the insurgents may be open to cutting deals. UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi urged the new government to pursue talks with insurgent groups, so that genuine Iraqi nationalists among them could be brought in and given a stake in a post-Saddam order. Neighboring Arab countries, as well as Coalition partners such as Britain, have also warned that the only way to tamp...