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...full responsibility for the so-called civilian side, not only because it can read the perilousness of the situation it would now inherit, but because of its well-founded fears of continued manipulation and scapegoating at the hands of the U.S. We are now again second-guessing U.N. special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, as well as quarreling among ourselves about whether the U.S. military or the U.S. Embassy should be in charge of reconstruction...
...stubborn belief that Iraqi leaders handpicked by hard-liners in Washington would be the perfect start to the Arab world's first democracy. When those leaders turned out to have no followers except in Washington, the U.S. quietly tossed the entire political puzzle into the hands of a U.N. envoy named Lakhdar Brahimi and signaled, without saying so, that it would accept just about any group of interim leaders he can get into place by June 30, the date for the long-awaited hand-off of power to the Iraqis...
...recording, he offered rewards of 10,000 grams of gold worth $125,000 for the killing of either L. Paul Bremer, Kofi Annan or his envoy to Iraq, Lakhdar Brahimi...
...ability of the U.S. to achieve its objectives in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East. While Iraqis may share President Bush's outrage over the photographs, they are far less likely to have been shocked to learn that detainees have been abused by U.S. troops. Indeed, UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi warned two weeks ago that addressing Iraqi concerns over the conditions under which detainees are being held in Iraq was an urgent priority for the U.S. occupation authority...
...Having failed in repeated attempts to author its own transition plan capable of delivering Iraqi support and acquiescence, the Bush administration has now turned to UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi to come up with a plan - and President Bush has made clear that he'll pretty much support whatever Brahimi decides. But as much as the administration is now depending on the efforts of the Algerian diplomat who reported back to the UN Security Council Tuesday, Brahimi is in no sense a servant of the U.S. His views on the situation in Iraq are at odds with...