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...took UN special representative Lakhdar Brahimi to convince Shiite leaders that elections can't be held before June 30, for reasons of security and logistics. The U.S. had actually invited the UN in to rule on the election question because Shiite spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Sistani, would not take no for an answer from Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Baghdad. Indeed, it is a measure of the difficulties facing Bremer that Sistani, by far the most popular and influential leader in Iraq today, has steadfastly refused even to meet with any U.S. officials so as to avoid being seen...
...result of last week's visit to Iraq by UN representative Lakhdar Brahimi has been to reinforce the demand for elections, although he also appears to have confirmed Bremer's view that a valid poll can't be held before year's end. More importantly, Brahimi also indicated that most Iraqis share Washington's concern to restore their sovereign authority by July 1. Asked about how he plans to resolve the conundrum of to whom the keys should be handed on June 30, Bremer indicated last weekend that he was waiting for the UN's recommendations...
...sick of fighting." Prices have dropped nearly 50% since December, but not just because the war is winding down. Many Afghans, fearing the U.S. and the U.N. will soon begin collecting weapons, are trying to sell them quickly for whatever they can get. Still, arms are hardly scarce. Lakhdar Brahimi, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special representative in Afghanistan, says America's use of local fighters to take on the Taliban and al-Qaeda has exacerbated the weapons problem. "You have more arms, not less," he says. "While we're collecting (old) arms, there are more arms being distributed...
...sick of fighting." Prices have dropped nearly 50% since December, but not just because the war is winding down. Many Afghans, fearing the U.S. and the U.N. will soon begin collecting weapons, are trying to sell them quickly for whatever they can get. Still, arms are hardly scarce. Lakhdar Brahimi, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special representative in Afghanistan, says America's use of local fighters to take on the Taliban and al-Qaeda has exacerbated the weapons problem. "You have more arms, not less," he says. "While we're collecting [old] arms, there are more arms being distributed...
...Hazara and Uzbek descent to rule over the Pashtuns?Afghanistan's largest ethnic group and the bedrock of Taliban support. And by rearming the warlords to hunt down al-Qaeda and the Taliban, the U.S. has also unwittingly helped fuel further conflict. According to U.N. special representative for Afghanistan Lakhdar Brahimi, "The war against terrorism creates its own problems. In particular, you have more arms. We're trying to face the problem of the old arms that were there, but while we're collecting arms there are more being distributed." One Karzai adviser ventures further: "The U.S. is creating mini...