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There's little doubt that an election can be held in Iraq by the January deadline agreed by the Bush administration and Iraq's interim government. The question is whether, under the prevailing security circumstances, a credible poll can be conducted. That's because the purpose of holding an election now is to secure the all-important legitimacy of a popular mandate for a new government to stabilize Iraq. By that measure, an election whose credibility is questioned by substantial sections of the Iraqi population and the international community could do more harm than good. And the prospect...
Officials from the U.S. military and the interim Iraqi government are playing down the significance of the intelligence estimate. "It says what we've been saying for months," a Pentagon civilian says. "There's a 1-in-3 chance of civil war." Officials insist that a sufficient portion of Iraq will be pacified in order to hold elections as scheduled in January 2005. But the insurgents have shown an impressive ability to regenerate. Jeffrey White, a former senior analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency, says there could be "as many as 100,000 insurgents," including those who provide food, clothing...
...Zarqawi and his allies. A series of audiocassettes obtained by TIME provides rare insight into their mind-set. In hours of sermons and "seminars," as they are called, leaders of Attawhid wal Jihad exhort their rank and file to slaughter Iraqis cooperating with the U.S. and the interim government. On one tape, a man named Sheik Abu Anas al-Shami, one of al-Zarqawi's key commanders and a member of the organization's religious committee, preaches that any nation built on secular principles is "in the light of Islamic law a tyrannical infidel and blasphemous state." Anyone associated with...
...some waves. Recently leaked documents show that senior colleagues had warned him that Washington's postwar plans were inadequate, and that terrorism would likely increase after a war - something he did not tell the country at the time. Looking unusually defensive, Blair used a press conference with Iraq's interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, to plead for putting all that in the past. "Whatever the disagreements about the first conflict in Iraq to remove Saddam, this conflict now is the crucible in which the future of this global terrorism will be determined," he said. But with his standing damaged...
...White House, Thursday's visit by Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi couldn't have been more timely. Just as President Bush's relentlessly optimistic campaign-trail spin on Iraq was coming under fire not only from John Kerry but also from heavyweight Senate Republicans, here was an authentic Iraqi voice validating the Bush position. In response to critics charging that his rhetoric was hopelessly optimistic, Bush stood alongside Allawi and responded, "What's important for the American people to hear is reality. And the reality's right here in the form of the prime minister...