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...York - The Bush administration is rethinking its opposition to bringing back senior Iraqi army officers who served under Saddam Hussein, sources tell TIME. Many in Washington privately say they regret Bremer's decision to disband the Iraqi army on May 23 and U.S. officials are urgently searching for potential leaders of a new Iraqi army, TIME's Michael Elliott reports in this week's issue {on newsstands Monday, Nov. 17} The article includes a chart with details about members of the Iraqi Governing Council, and whether they are up to the task of rebuilding Iraq...
...Department and CIA have argued for remobilizing as fast as possible. But when lawmakers gathered in the secret S-407 briefing room on Capitol Hill last week to press the point on Bremer, he made it clear that recalling the soldiers was not on. "They made a decision to disband these guys and not use them," said a lawmaker in attendance. Reconstituting the army "would be admitting they made a mistake...
...aren't religiously fundamentalist but think the dry, precise Trimble can't stand up to the I.R.A.'s tough guys. If Paisley wins, he says he won't operate the Northern Ireland government or even negotiate unless not just the I.R.A. but also its political allies in Sinn Fein disband - even though Sinn Fein is likely to be the largest nationalist party. "Oil and water will not mix," he says. "You can't have murderers in government." He's probably right that a victory by his party will mean new negotiations about the Good Friday agreement. But he's wrong...
Musicians complain that Harvard’s music scene has been stagnant and disorganized for years. Bands form and disband within months, finding no opportunities to play live, win over a fan base or create a lasting product...
That failure was compounded by the disastrous decision by U.S. proconsul L. Paul (Jerry) Bremer in May to disband the Iraqi army, which put thousands of armed men on the streets with no pay and no reason to support the Americans. In December a blue-ribbon commission created by the Council on Foreign Relations and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University had argued the opposite case. The Iraqi army, the panel said, "could serve as a guarantor of peace and stability if it is retrained in part for constabulary duty and internal security mission...