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...American Administration that has effectively decided to run the country on its own. Earlier this month the U.S. ripped up previous commitments to allow Iraq's seven former opposition parties - a coalition calling itself the "leadership council" - to quickly establish an all-Iraqi provisional government. Instead, civilian administrator Paul Bremer announced plans to appoint a 25- to 30-person political council that will answer to him; U.S. officials told Time they hope to name councilors by the end of the month. Bremer modified the plan in response to Iraqi demands that the council be given more clout and independence...
...PAUL BREMER, U.S. administrator for Iraq, on how long coalition forces will remain...
...couple months. First it endured a crushing rout at the hands of U.S. and British forces, then watched as enemy soldiers took up residence in the garish palaces? that once served as the Iraqi command centers.? Last month the head of the U.S.'s postwar administration in Iraq, Paul Bremer, delivered the? most painful blow, dissolving Iraq's armed forces and putting 400,000 soldiers? out of work without so much as a pink slip...
...least some of them may soon get a second chance.? According to Marine Col. Jim Frawley, a top advisor to the Bremer team, the U.S. plans to begin recruiting a new Iraqi security force by the end of this month. In an interview today with TIME and National Public Radio, Frawley said the initial all-volunteer, 40,000-man light infantry unit that will be deployed to provide basic security? throughout Iraq and will assist U.S. forces in clearing battlefield sites...
...Frawley says that the U.S. now plans to give severance and retirement pay to those affected by Bremer's dissolution order and to allow former soldiers to participate in a U.N.-sponsored retraining program. Still, there are plenty in Iraq not willing to give up their guns. In western Iraq yesterday,? militants shot and killed a U.S. soldier at a checkpoint - the 8th American to die in the last two weeks. And with each new attack, U.S. plans to draw down the size of its forces seem more remote. "The attacks are getting more sophisticated," says Frawley. "They could...