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...That may turn out to be bargaining position, but the bargaining is likely to be tough - the U.S. draft reportedly includes such sweeteners as provision for the honoring of contracts signed with Russian companies under the oil-for-food program. But it also seeks Security Council authorization for de facto control by the coalition until such time as Britain and France are ready to cede such authority, and the international body is unlikely to grant such a broad mandate...
...That leaves most of the country outside of the capital under the de facto control of a patchwork of often feuding warlords whose links to Kabul are often tenuous and many of whom have reverted to extortion, drug production and other illicit revenue streams. Even in Kabul itself, Karzai finds himself a virtual prisoner in the palace, guarded by U.S. personnel because the Northern Alliance troops of his defense minister, General Mohammed Fahim, may not be sufficiently trusted with Karzai's life. Fahim, of course, is quite happy for the affable Pashtun president in the coat of many colors...
...would be easy to dismiss Muqtada al-Sadr as little more than a street punk. That may be a mistake when dealing with a man who appears to have established himself as the de facto ruler of a huge chunk of Baghdad - the Shiite ghetto once known as Saddam City, now renamed Sadr City in honor of Muqtada's uncle, the legendary martyred anti-Saddam rebel cleric Muhammad Bakir al Sadr. Sadr City could be described as the Compton of Iraq, but its 2 million residents make up 8 percent of Iraq's entire population. A substantial domain, then...
...We’ve kind of de facto adopted a style of music that seems to fit all of us, but it’s still not a very defined genre,” Xuan says...
...Harvard, which already lost de facto ace Marc Hordon to a torn labrum early in the season, still win the Ivy League championship...