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...Shifting Gears in Iraq L. Paul bremer, the American proconsul in Iraq, is being directed to change policy there as the political winds blow [Nov. 24]. One has to wonder if the timetable for transferring governance to the Iraqis was accelerated because it is in the best interests of that country or because a re-election bid is looming for President George W. Bush and is his primary concern. Michael Robertson Frisco...
...said a U.S. intelligence official in Baghdad about the arrest of the former dictator. The official wouldn't give any more details except to confirm that the former dictator had been detained the night before. He did say the suspect had been positively identified as Saddam Hussein. Ambassador Paul Bremer is calling together the Iraqi Governing Council to tell them this afternoon, he said...
...airport last Thursday evening. The 1st Armored Division's big brass band was noodling through jazz standards like Take the A Train while 550 soldiers sat at refectory tables, looking hungry and impatient to return to their camps so they could call their families for Thanksgiving. Finally, L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. proconsul in Iraq, took the stage and asked if there was anyone in the room more senior than he who could read the President's Thanksgiving message to the troops. There was: George W. Bush himself, who entered on cue, inspiring the stunned soldiers to leap to their...
...political interplay among the Shiites in the coming months. A U.S.-authored political order in Iraq is unlikely to prosper or even survive unless it is wholeheartedly embraced by the Shiites. Which suggests that much now rides on how Grand Ayatollah Sistani chooses to respond to the decision by Bremer and the IGC to proceed without elections...
...Although some key Shiite leaders on the IGC have advocated compliance with Sistani's edict demanding elections, the Council majority has now backed the Bremer plan, potentially setting up a confrontation between the U.S. and important elements of the Shiite population. Bremer is hoping that Sistani can be placated on the grounds of the practicalities of organizing elections before next summer. But he's unlikely to be impressed, which could open the way for more militant Shiite groups to use it as a basis to challenge the process on the streets. The last thing Bremer needs is the opening...