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...senior administration official put it? The official line here at the NATO summit is that the Iraqis are eager to get going. "It improves his hand," says a senior administration official, referring to Allawi. But there's more than that. Allawi has been saying that he wants martial law. Now that he has his own government, he has the political cover to do it in a way he couldn't before. Now it will be his martial law, if he proceeds, not the Americans'. Of course, it'll be kids from Watts and Wichita and elsewhere in the States...
...course, is that Allawi is unlikely to gain legitimacy from Iraqis without bucking the United States to some degree and showing he's not a puppet. Easier said than done. Allawi will be more beholden than ever to the U.S. if he presses ahead with his suggestion of martial law or some other kind of full-scale crackdown on terrorists. In the coming days, American officials will publicly show deference to Allawi. John Negroponte, the newly minted U.S. ambassador in Iraq, will formally present his credentials to the new government. And the CPA signs will be packed...
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...conducted a brutal campaign against the separatists' civilian supporters. According to New York City-based Human Rights Watch, the military has killed hundreds of ordinary Acehnese?a charge the government denies. "If anyone is shot, it's because he is G.A.M.," says Colonel Ditya Sudarsono, spokesman for the martial-law administrator in Aceh. The military itself boasts that the campaign against the rebels has been a major success, claiming that more than 2,000 G.A.M. members have been killed and another 3,000 captured...
...security problem but a problem of conscience. The issue is returning dignity to the Acehnese, giving them rights with a genuine regional autonomy." But in political opinion polls, Wiranto is currently lagging behind the top contender, former Security Minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who supervised the imposition of martial law in Aceh. "There seems to be no way out," says Kingsbury. "It could take a generation before the two sides can get back to the negotiating table with any hope of success...