Word: bremer
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...Paul Bremer strode into the sweltering Iraqi capital of Baghdad last week, sounding to all the world like the new sheriff in town--albeit one wearing a suit and tie. For a city racked by instability and violence, President Bush's newly appointed civilian chief promised a new, no-nonsense approach to law and order. Referring to the thousands of criminals Saddam Hussein freed before the war, the seasoned diplomat and counterterrorism expert declared, "It's time we put these people back in jail...
...after the first month of U.S. occupation of Iraq, it's clear that bringing security--to say nothing of democracy--to a broken country is more easily pledged than done. Bremer's predecessor, retired Lieut. General Jay Garner, fared so poorly from the start that one of his own underlings in Iraq, career diplomat Barbara Bodine, sounded the alarm. She dashed off scathing reports to colleagues back in Washington warning that he was in danger of losing the peace, according to officials at the State Department and the Baghdad-based Office of Humanitarian and Reconstruction Assistance (OHRA). (Bodine declined...
...Bremer's emphasis has been on restoring security and basic services, regaining the ground lost in the first month during which U.S. plans for managing the post-Saddam scenario had proved woefully inadequate. The freeing up by the UN of some Iraqi oil revenues will certainly help the new U.S. administrator finance urgent reconstruction projects and pay the salaries of some of the millions of Iraqis who previously worked in the public sector. And he hopes that stepped up patrolling by coalition forces - and, particularly, the addition of some 4,000 military police personnel and a large contingent of British...
...statement said. ?There must be no Baath Party activity, because the party no longer exists.? As many as 1.5 million of Iraq's 24 million people belonged to the party, but only 25,000 to 50,000 were hard core members. The U.S. civilian administration, led by L. Paul Bremer, announced last week that up to 30,000 former Baathists would be kept out of any new, American-established government...
...first U.S. administrator for postwar Iraq, retired general Jay Garner, had hoped to inaugurate an Iraqi transitional government dominated by former exiles as early as this week. But that plan has been put on hold as Garner found himself replaced by former ambassador Paul Bremer, following sharp warnings to Washington by U.S. officials on the ground that the situation had drifted dangerously out of control on Garner's watch. Bremer and British officials on his team have said that the process of establishing an Iraqi interim authority would be delayed at least until mid-July, but they also made clear...