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...poll conducted in May by the Iraq Center for Research and Strategic Studies (ICRSS) asked Iraqis to rank 17 prominent religious and political leaders. Iyad Allawi, Prime Minister of the interim government that will take over administrative power from the Coalition Provisional Authority on June 30, finished in sixteenth place. Behind him, dead last, came Ghazi al-Yawer, who on Tuesday was named president of the interim government...
...commands some 18,000 men, of which about 1,000 are currently inside Iraq. After almost three years of President Bush's war on terror, the IISS offered the following assessment of the movement's prospects: "Although half of al-Qaeda's 30 senior leaders and perhaps 2,000 rank-and-file members have been killed or captured, a rump leadership is still intact and more than 18,000 potential terrorists are still at large, with recruitment accelerating on account of Iraq." The continuing danger of an al-Qaeda strike inside the U.S. as it moves into election season...
...SENTENCED. JEREMY SIVITS, 24, U.S. Army specialist; to a year in prison, reduction in rank and a bad-conduct discharge; in the first court-martial stemming from the abuse of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison; in Baghdad. Sivits pleaded guilty to taking pictures of naked prisoners being humiliated. Three other soldiers were also arraigned last week...
...badge of honor. Scottish heraldic authorities have granted Powell, whose mother had Scottish ancestors, his very own coat of arms. On his crest, our top diplomat will have an eagle to denote the U.S., a lion because he's a military man and four stars for the rank he attained as general. Maybe now he can broker truces between raging British soccer fans...
...Lyndie England, the most prominent face of the abuse scandal, claims, “I was instructed by persons in higher rank to ‘stand there, hold this leash, look at the camera.’” Maj. Gen. Antonio Taquba, who led the initial investigation into the abuses, has spoken of an overall “failure of leadership.” In the military, the chain of command goes all the way to the top. A scandal of this magnitude leads to the secretary of defense, and ultimately to the commander-in-chief...