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...seat for every 100,000 citizens resident in that province. But the citizens won't get to vote; that will be left to a handful of delegates admitted to each "Selection Caucus." The delegates at each caucus will be chosen by an organizing committee comprising five representatives of the Bremer-appointed Iraqi Governing Council; five representatives from the coalition-appointed provincial council and one each from five coalition-appointed town councils. To attend a nominating convention, an Iraqi citizen will need the votes of 11 of the 15 members of the organizing committee in his or her province...
...While Bremer finesses the political plans in consultation with the IGC, dealing with the insurgency is the province of the U.S. military, and its new approach could be dubbed "Shock and Awe II." U.S. forces are raining down everything from 500-pound bombs to satellite-guided missiles and artillery fire on houses, fields and warehouses believed to be used by guerrillas - not that the guerrillas are present at the time, it's principally a display of firepower intended to cow the resistance and its supporters into submission. To the same end tanks parade slowly through the streets of Tikrit, helicopter...
...York - The Bush administration is rethinking its opposition to bringing back senior Iraqi army officers who served under Saddam Hussein, sources tell TIME. Many in Washington privately say they regret Bremer's decision to disband the Iraqi army on May 23 and U.S. officials are urgently searching for potential leaders of a new Iraqi army, TIME's Michael Elliott reports in this week's issue {on newsstands Monday, Nov. 17} The article includes a chart with details about members of the Iraqi Governing Council, and whether they are up to the task of rebuilding Iraq...
...Bush to Bremer: 'Let's Get On with It' The two days of meetings in Washington that followed turned out to be fateful. Although Bremer was not directly blamed for the occupation's troubles in Iraq, it was plain that his halo had slipped. The message that Bush gave his fellow gym rat last week, says a senior official, can be reduced to five words: "Let's get on with it." "It" turns out to be a thorough reworking of Bremer's plan to turn power over to the Iraqis...
...There are no easy options facing the Bush administration in Iraq, and the course correction that will follow Bremer's return to Baghdad may not be the last. But the U.S. administrator's hurried visit suggests that the administration has taken heed of the CIA's reported warning that a course correction is urgently required...