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Iraqi political leaders warn that Bremer's plan may embolden America's enemies even more--by marginalizing the country's most organized pro-Western forces and fueling suspicions that the U.S. plans to rule Iraq indefinitely. "If people feel that the U.S. is determined to go its own way, with no Iraqi partner who has a say, they will show less cooperation with the Americans," says Hoshyar Zebari, a senior official in the Kurdistan Democratic Party. "This plays into the hands of the extremists." But U.S. officials say they never intended to hand power over to these former opposition parties...
...luck," says Nabil al-Moussawi, a chief aide to I.N.C. leader Ahmed Chalabi. "But at this point my advice would be that we not be involved." Iraqi political leaders warn that Bremer's plan may embolden America's enemies even more - by marginalizing the country's most organized pro-Western forces and fueling suspicions that the U.S. plans to rule Iraq indefinitely. "If people feel that the U.S. is determined to go its own way, with no Iraqi partner who has a say, they will show less cooperation with the Americans," says Hoyshar Zebari, a senior official in the Kurdistan...
...state are not always separated and where the clergy have greater legitimacy than politicians; how to promote human rights and the rule of law at the same time as waging a merciless war on terrorism. President Bush went to Sharm el-Sheikh to discuss the region's problems with pro-Western leaders of Arab countries, having effectively become one himself...
...into a humiliating political disaster. Many Shiites there had initially welcomed Israel's 1982 invasion, feeling that it liberated them from the Palestine Liberation Organization forces that had dominated the country. But when Israel dug in for a long-term occupation, and the U.S. Marines propped up an unpopular pro-Western government, radical Shiite groups rose to the fore. Taking the lead in attacking Israeli and U.S. troops with everything from sniper fire to suicide bombs, they forced Reagan to completely abandon Lebanon in less than 18 months...
...Wooing the Shiite clerics, however, is a daunting task for General Jay Garner, the U.S. administrator for post-Saddam Iraq. Shiite religious-political groups are far from united, and their divisions are potentially violent, as the fatal stabbing two weeks of a prominent pro-Western cleric at Najaf demonstrated. Ayatollah Abdel Majid al-Khoei was murdered by supporters of a young cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, who seek an Iran-style Islamic state in Iraq and are innately hostile towards cooperation with the U.S. But the supreme clerical authority in Iraq, Ayatollah Ali Sistani of Najaf, has been more cautious...