Word: talabanis
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...transition charter, that the peshmerga would be allowed to keep their arms. Even if others disagree, the Kurd militia does not plan to give up its weapons. "The peshmerga were on the right side of the fence" against Saddam and fought side by side with the Americans, says Qubad Talabani, son and aide to top Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani. "There has to be a reward for this, and disbanding them is not a reward...
...press conference in Baghdad on Saturday, Jalal Talabani, a Kurdish leader who holds the rotating presidency of the Iraqi Governing Council, announced the new scheme. In effect, Bremer has junked the plan for Iraqi self-rule that he unveiled last summer. Under the original proposal, the council, made up of Iraqi notables appointed by the U.S., was to propose how a constitution might be drafted by December. After the document was written, it would be ratified in a referendum, and only then would a sovereign Iraqi government be elected. The whole process could have taken up to four years...
Even those who for professional reasons might be expected to support the council often knock it. "The Governing Council is composed of prima donnas," says an official of the CPA. Qubad Talabani, Jalal Talabani's son and chief political adviser, bluntly describes the organization as "a large body that is unable to make decisions. Everything gets clogged up in hours-long debates. It's paralysis." Kanan Makiya, a Brandeis University professor who is on the council's constitutional committee, says, "We've been going around and around in circles. We have lost three months that we could have spent...
...soldiers in Iraq off the street and into their bases, letting Iraqis conduct most routine patrols. But, he adds, "America will probably have bases here for 10 to 12 years." Bremer assumes that the provisional government will want U.S. forces to help stabilize the country after next summer, and Talabani concurs--up to a point. "If we need [U.S. troops], we shall ask them to stay," he told TIME last week. "If not, we will respectfully say, 'Bye-bye, dear friends...
...Even those who for professional reasons might be expected to support the council often knock it. "The Governing Council is composed of prima donnas," says an official of the Coalition Provisional Authority. Qubad Talabani, the son of Jalal Talabani, and his father's chief political adviser, bluntly describes the organization as "a large body that is unable to make decisions. Everything gets clogged up in hours-long debates. It's paralysis...