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...While Bremer's plan envisages closing down the Coalition Provisional Authority on June 30 next year, what is less clear are the plans for the U.S. military. Fearing that the hand-over plan may signal a precipitous exit by the U.S., President Bush has rushed to reassure Iraqis that the U.S. military will stay on in Iraq even after the new government takes over. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld made the same point in even more muscular terms, suggesting that the political transition is a "separate track" that had nothing to do with U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq, and that...
...While administration officials debate exit strategies, U.S. forces in Iraq are taking the fight to an enemy often difficult to find. Last weekend, a new get-tough policy saw U.S. air strikes in the Sunni Triangle following the downing of a third U.S. helicopter in two weeks. The show of force is designed to deter the locals who have either supported the insurgents or, at least, failed to cooperate with the U.S. forces to weed them out. One obvious danger is that large-scale counterinsurgency operations tend to alienate the local population, and generate support for the insurgency. A second...
...matter who is orchestrating the violence, the U.S. hopes to calm things down by rapidly turning over to Iraqis more responsibility for policing their country. State Department officials note that this has always been the ultimate exit strategy. But Bush's team has long been divided over the exact approach. Before the war, there was a contentious debate about the role of Iraqi security forces once major fighting ended. The State Department and the CIA pushed hard for a strategy that would remove only the top layers of Iraq's army and keep most of the rank-and-file intact...
...George W. Bush seems only recently to have come to the realization that he has bitten off more than he can chew?or afford, for that matter. The Administration has created a royal mess of things that I'm sure was not anticipated. Maybe Bush will be thankful to exit office at the end of one term, leaving the next President with a horribly daunting task: trying to glue the broken world back together. Lynelle Grobler Pretoria...
...protesters gathered in the capital, Tbilisi, in support of opposition groups claiming that parliamentary elections in the former Soviet republic were rigged by President Eduard Shevardnadze's government. Interim results had a pro-Shevardnadze bloc vying for the lead with a regional grouping allied to the government, despite exit polls that showed popular support for the radical opposition. International observers claimed the election was marred by serious irregularities. A Credible Threat SAUDI ARABIA Just a day after the U.S. closed its diplomatic missions citing credible evidence of an imminent terror attack, at least one powerful explosion wracked a residential compound...