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...make winning their support indispensable for any representative and stable government the U.S. attempts to create in post-Saddam Iraq. It may have been to that end that the U.S. military had facilitated Ayatollah al-Khoei's return to An Najaf. Al-Khoei was reported to have taken a pro-Western position, and was working to rally support among Shiite clerics for the U.S.-led transition process. At the time of his murder, he had been due to address a group of Arab journalists flown to the town by the U.S. military - and had been expected to cast...
...first scenario, he said, is a pro-Western state with a prosperous private sector...
...assassination - Djindjic was gunned down by sniper fire in broad daylight - recalled both the reign of terror that seized Serbia in the final years of Milosevic's rule and the chaos and dread that many Serbs had hoped was behind them. Known for his wit, energy and commitment to pro-Western reforms, Djindjic was on a campaign to stamp out organized crime within the state security forces and society as a whole - and it may have cost him his life. According to one senior government official, he was set to sign the warrant for Lukovic's arrest...
Thus far, the assumptions that have governed U.S. war preparations have presupposed a transition to a benevolent and benign democratic government in Iraq. Such a government would be presumably pro-Western, allowing the United States favorable access to its markets and supplying oil at stable prices. But a consideration of other precariously situated democracies might better inform President George W. Bush’s foreign policy team of the risks of action in Iraq...
...pro-Western Arabs, a group that includes most of the ?lite and the intellectuals, Saddam used to be, at best, an embarrassment. His adventure in Kuwait, combined with his brutish regime, made him impossible to defend. But where once he was a divisive figure, Saddam is now uniting Arab opinion firmly behind him. "You won't find a single Arab who is anti-Saddam," says political analyst Labib Kamhawi. "Not even among the sophisticated, Western-educated classes...