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...have their own agendas - indeed, Turkish officials have made no bones about the fact that their decision to send troops, which cuts against the tide of Turkish public opinion, is based primarily on Turkey's desire to have a hand in shaping post-Saddam Iraq. Although U.S. administrator Paul Bremer has sought to assuage the fears of the IGC - particularly its Kurdish members, who see the Turks as threatening their desired autonomy - the Council remains opposed and has won the support of the Arab League. Although the Turks are also Sunni Muslims, there's little reason to suspect that...
...months, but Iraqis were quick to dismiss Powell's timetable as hopelessly optimistic. Some of Iraq's most important leaders - the moderate Shiite clerics at Najaf - have insisted that an Iraqi constitution can be drawn up only by an elected body, not by the IGC, which was handpicked by Bremer...
...clear that the U.N. will not help Iraq so long as the American occupation authority remains in charge. Kofi Annan has said he wants a rapid transfer of power to an Iraqi government of some sort. Everyone agrees this is a good idea--even the U.S. proconsul, Paul Bremer, recently told a congressional committee that already "some Iraqis are beginning to regard us as occupiers and not as liberators"--but no one knows how to get it done anytime soon with any guarantee of success. For one thing, it will be impossible to create a new government without Sunni participation...
...real national feeling that it is being occupied. And even if they don't know who will lead them tomorrow, they don't want to be occupied." Kasim al-Sahlani, a senior member of the Dawa Party, a moderate Islamic party that opposed Saddam from within, complains that Bremer said Iraqis were not yet ready to lead the country. "The Iraqis are civilized people," he says, "but Paul Bremer's words make us sound like children...
...want Iraq to become a breeding ground for terrorism." PAUL BREMER, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, at a Pentagon news conference...