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...film moves between al-Jazeera's offices and Centcom in Qatar. How were the environments different...
...insurgency and if Brahimi's plan picks up support, they might still be able to steer Iraq toward democratic elections by January 2005. "It's unrealistic to think that in one year everything is going to be settled," Abizaid told TIME in his low-ceilinged office at Centcom headquarters in Doha, Qatar, after the visit to Iraq. "Yes, there is still violence and still some instability, but ... there is a lot of progress that shouldn't be overlooked...
...members of al-Sadr's Medhi Army seized their buildings, weapons and vehicles. The inability or unwillingness of the Iraqis to help suppress the twin uprisings forced U.S. officials to admit publicly last week what many have assumed for months. General John Abizaid, head of the U.S. Central Command (Centcom), says Iraqi security forces won't be ready to assume control until September at the earliest...
...central command. In its rush to get the Iraqis onto the streets, the U.S. never settled on who should train the new forces; instead, responsibility was divided among the military, the Coalition Provisional Authority and the State Department. The Pentagon has since decided to place all Iraqi forces under Centcom, but military experts say thousands of Iraqis have already been pushed into duty without adequate training...
...will probably delay shipping out some 25,000 soldiers--mostly members of the 1st Armored Division--who have been in the country for a year. Because of scheduled troop rotations, there are 135,000 U.S. soldiers in Iraq, up from 120,000 several weeks ago. An Army officer at Centcom insists that delaying the departure of elements of the 1st Armored Division for up to three months "should be enough to get us through this rough patch...