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BREMER:Well, I think at some point, either we or the interim government was going to have to face the issue that you had a political figure who was wanted for murder. People forget that this was an Iraqi court investigation led by Iraqis; it was an Iraqi investigating judge who requested the arrest warrant; it was an Iraqi judge who gave the arrest warrant. It wasn't us. Sooner or later, if you believe in the rule of law, you have to have some consequence to that. (Sadr) would have to sooner or later face justice. When was that...
Like almost all his classmates, however, Yako has something else in mind: leaving Iraq. The U.S. hailed the naming of an interim government two weeks ago as a step toward an eventual withdrawal of American forces from Iraq. But the graduating seniors at Baghdad University are already plotting exit strategies of their own. Outside the school's College of Languages, two friends discussed which British graduate programs might accept them. Another student thought he might have found a job in the United Arab Emirates. Even students without concrete plans have decided to get out. "I haven't a clue where...
...change in Iraq predicted before the war that the well-educated elite would flourish under new freedoms. Despite all the turmoil of the occupation, the graduates of Iraq's class of '04 may be standing on the cusp of a booming job market, as foreign companies arrive and the interim government taking office this month begins looking to hire thousands of skilled employees. And yet to the students planning their first career moves, those prospects seem remote. "Even if the government does everything that it has promised, it will take years for Iraq's economy to recover," says Tariq Mohammed...
...hope is that this government will prove its worthiness and integrity and its firm readiness to perform the mammoth tasks it is burdened with." GRAND AYATULLAH ALI HUSAINI SISTANI, spiritual leader of Iraq's Shi'ite Muslims, in a restrained endorsement of the newly appointed Iraqi interim government...
Named. Ghazi Al-Yawar, 45, U.S.-educated Sunni tribal leader and former exile; as the new president--a largely ceremonial job--of the interim Iraqi government that will take over on June 30; in Baghdad...