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...bright note: the fighting within the Administration over Iraq policy may be ending. There are still some in the Pentagon who would like to see Iraq run by their longtime ally Ahmad Chalabi, a member of the Governing Council and the leader of the Iraqi National Congress, even though he clearly has little political support there. But the Pentagon, which has called the shots for a year, is finally giving in to reality. Strengthened by the addition of Blackwill, a tough operator with a nice trifecta on his resume--he worked for the President's dad, mentored Rice when...
...Their political survival and prosperity now depends on their ability to stack the provincial nominating conventions with their supporters. For some, like the Kurdish parties that have a strong regional base, it's a relatively easy path. But for others, like the Pentagon-favored Iraqi National Congress of Ahmed Chalabi, which appears to have no significant regional or popular base, it may be a moment of truth...
...prominent Iraqis on the U.S.-backed Governing Council. The majority partner in the consortium that was awarded the southern-Iraq license, for instance, is Dijla Telecommunications Corporation, a Baghdad outfit headed by Ali Shawkat, the son of Mudhar Shawkat, a senior adviser to Iraqi National Congress President Ahmad Chalabi. Coalition officials and the Shawkats denied to TIME that the family's connections were behind the decision to grant Dijla the license. But others contend the deal reeks of cronyism. "The mobile contracts were all politically divided," says an Iraqi emigre who returned as a consultant for a telecom firm...
...forces ... will change from occupiers to a force that is here at the invitation of the Iraqi government." Ahmad Chalabi, member of the Governing Council in Iraq, hailing the Bush Administration's decision to re-establish Iraqi self-rule as early as next June...
...former deputy to Jay Garner, the first, short-lived civilian administrator in Iraq, says he thought the plan was to employ most of the soldiers in reconstruction tasks after Saddam fell. But civilians at the Pentagon and in the office of the Vice President agreed with Ahmed Chalabi, leader of the former exile opposition group, the Iraqi National Congress, that full de-Baathification of the military was essential. In May, two weeks after Bremer took over as proconsul in Baghdad, he ordered the army completely demobilized. Many U.S. officials involved in post-Saddam Iraq now feel this was a poor...