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...waiting--a few hundred former generals, aid workers and diplomats standing by in Kuwait, awaiting Saddam's defeat. Once that happens, they will cross the border to become the nerve center of postwar Iraq. Advance teams are ready to move in as early as this week. Garner plans to establish three administrative centers--in Baghdad, Mosul and Basra--that will supervise humanitarian relief and reconstruction, keep the oil flowing, purge Saddam loyalists from Iraqi government agencies and set in motion the most difficult of U.S. war aims: the establishment of democratic institutions in a country that has never known them...
Margo also said the closer relationships with the ART and OFA would solve problems that have plagued the VDP in the past. A lack of institutional memory has left the group scrabbling to re-establish the program every other year, he said...
...months before the 3rd Infantry Division crossed the border from Kuwait, Special Forces teams entered the Iraq. One of their primary missions was to establish the conditions and train fighters for a revolt in the Shia areas in the south of the country. But they failed to spark the anticipated revolt. In retrospect, it's easy to see why; the Shia have been burned before by what they thought were U.S. promises of support. A Shia rebellion against Saddam in the aftermath of the first Gulf War was brutally suppressed, and no one here, remembering the tens of thousands killed...
...With pleasure. Well, folks, this battle will rage at least until Sunday, when the tournament is over. Neither side is giving an inch. Nighttime is fast approaching, and as we all know, the NCWO “owns the night.” They have also established 100 percent air-waves supremacy. But the enemy is formidable, and the level of resistance fiercer than expected. Martha Burk would have liked to establish a larger coalition for her cause, but right now she is settling for a “coalition of the willing to waste time in a parking...
...Abdullah Gul, said Thursday that he had been promised that the Kurdish fighters would leave the city after U.S. reinforcements arrive, "within hours." Turkey has, meanwhile, sent military observers to the city - a gesture that underscores its statement that it would be "unacceptable" to Ankara if the Kurdish fighters establish a permanent presence in Kirkuk. Ankara has tens of thousands troops poised along the Iraq border, and has warned that it will send them in if the Kurdish fighters are not withdrawn from Kirkuk...