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...domestic audience, the Bush administration's hand-over of sovereign authority in Baghdad on June 28 was intended to mark a light at the end of the Iraq tunnel - a crucial step toward making the problems in Iraq mostly the problems of Iraqis. But for U.S. troops in the country and their families back home, the worrying news has hardly skipped a beat. In the 16 days since U.S. administrator J. Paul Bremer handed over the keys to Iraqi interim prime minister Iyad Allawi, some 35 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq. The number of insurgent attacks continue...
...leaders. The very way the new government took power underscores the need. In a brief, stealthy ceremony improvised two days early to thwart feared attacks timed for the official date of June 30, U.S. proconsul L. Paul Bremer handed a blue folder to Prime Minister Allawi and with it sovereign responsibility for restoring Iraq to normality. Within an hour, Bremer was gone, his quick departure emblematic of Washington's exhausted efforts to birth a model nation...
Even Iraqi optimists know that their leaders face an uncommonly steep challenge. Too many citizens still have no jobs, electricity is erratic, and the water is filthy. And no nation can call itself sovereign if it cannot protect its people from terrorism and crime. The interim government is heavily dependent on U.S. soldiers for security and on U.S. dollars for reconstruction. As the restructured Iraqi National Guard began appearing on Iraqi streets, insurgents attacked a unit south of Baghdad, killing six and wounding five...
...never as good as it should be." Al-Rubaie says this is the one area where his people have an edge: "This is our country. We know every single alleyway." That's the basis on which al-Shahwani will try to build a successful counterinsurgency--and a truly sovereign nation. --With reporting by Michael Ware and Vivienne Walt/Baghdad
...freedom reign!" PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, after being informed that sovereign power in Iraq had been officially passed to the Iraqis...