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...most popular leader in Iraq, according to the ICRSS survey, was the country's leading Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. Also high up: Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a leader of the Shiite Dawa party named as one of two vice-presidents in the new administration, and Adnan Pachachi, the Sunni elder statesman and preferred presidential candidate of the U.S. who was offered the post but turned it down in the face of objections from some the Iraqi Governing Council...
...President not to hand control over Iraq's political future to the U.N. Chalabi has long railed against the U.N. for propping up Saddam through its corrupt oil-for-food program. He warned Bush that the U.N.'s envoy to Iraq, Lakhdar Brahimi, was trying to give former Sunni Baathists a role in the future government. Chalabi tells TIME, "The President said to me, 'If there is anything you don't have to worry about, it's that...
...Sunni heartland in the middle of the country remains the biggest concern for U.S. commanders, not least because the escalating danger of working there has slowed reconstruction to a near halt. But in Fallujah, the hotbed of the resistance, U.S. officials point to a recent outbreak of sanity. The Marines eased their stranglehold on the city three weeks ago, placed a former general in Saddam's army in charge of security and began joint patrols through the city with local Iraqi forces. So far, the patrols have gone off without major incident. The change in tactics--for weeks...
...Cavalry Division--had begun to piece together building projects in the area in and around Abu Ghraib, in western Baghdad. The construction would have employed several hundred local men and therefore was a key part, Ryan says, of his plan for defusing support for the insurgency in the Sunni-dominated area. Now he is opting for offering small-scale projects through tribal sheiks, nurturing his ties with them. Still, the prison-abuse scandal has been a blow to even that strategy. "Every time we want to discuss starting a new project, their agenda is, 'We want to talk about...
...build legitimacy with the Iraqi people by separating itself from the U.S. The most logical way to do that would be to extend the Fallujah principle to the entire country: ask the American military to stand down and turn security over to local militias--Baathists in the Sunni triangle, the Kurdish Peshmerga in the north, the Shi'ite Badr Brigade in the south. This would be dreadful long-term policy, an open invitation to civil war. But would the Bush Administration oppose it? Possibly not, on recent evidence, especially if it produced the appearance of calm by November...