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Last fall, in southern Iraq, a Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) official approached Maurice (Termite) Watkins, 47, at breakfast. Watkins, a professional boxer turned pest-control contractor, had spent the previous six months killing scorpions and camelback spiders around U.S. military bases and reconstruction sites in Iraq. The official, regional coordinator Mike Gfoeller, had heard that Watkins could fight more than mosquitoes. "What are the odds of you getting an Iraqi boxer qualified for the Olympics?" Gfoeller asked. Termite spoke from the heart. "About one in a million...
...just seven months before scheduled elections to convince ordinary citizens that the anti-jihad fight is theirs. "We have to do that," says Saleh. "Convince Iraqis that this should be a war of the government and people against the terrorists." And accomplish what the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) could not. According to the New York Times, a senior CPA official who returned last week to Washington confesses that in the past 15 months, U.S. intelligence hasn't cracked the insurgency's command and control or eroded its strength. "Our intelligence on this stuff," the source said, "was never as good...
...Japan for six years.) The White House, and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and her deputy, Robert Blackwill, in particular, took over the Iraqi political portfolio from an inept Pentagon and told Bremer to find a way to form an Iraqi government that could assume power from the CPA by July 2004. Bremer devised a complex caucus system intended to ensure that the rights of the minority Sunnis and Kurds would be protected. But the plan was never accepted by the key political force in the country, Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, the religious leader of the majority...
Critics say Bremer did not come to know many Iraqis outside the Governing Council--and that he managed to alienate even council members with his brisk manner, as a CPA source puts it. His defenders say that keeping council members in line--and maintaining momentum for the handover of power--consumed most of Bremer's energy. As a result, Bremer spent much of his time playing an inside game, forgoing meetings with the Iraqi public and allowing the day-to-day governance in much of the country to be carried out by either U.S. troops or local militia that rushed...
...ahead with his suggestion of martial law or some other kind of full-scale crackdown on terrorists. In the coming days, American officials will publicly show deference to Allawi. John Negroponte, the newly minted U.S. ambassador in Iraq, will formally present his credentials to the new government. And the CPA signs will be packed up-in an very public display. But no one will be in any doubt that Iraq is George W. Bush's fight as much as Allawi's. Maybe even more...