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...April's twin insurgent flare-ups had stretched the Coalition's combat capability. Allies willing to commit new troops are increasingly scarce, while U.S. officials report that as much as half of the Iraqi security forces recruited by the U.S. have proven to be unreliable against the insurgents. U.S. viceroy J. Paul Bremer on Tuesday said bluntly that such forces won't be in a position to ensure Iraq's security after the planned transfer of "sovereignty" on June 30. Experts testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week agreed that the U.S. would likely have to bear...
...fighting and 36 were wounded; the death toll among Iraqis was almost 50, with hundreds wounded. Fighting raged on Monday in Baghdad as U.S. troops clashed with militiamen loyal to the firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The new uprising would not be tolerated and would be suppressed, warned U.S. viceroy J. Paul Bremer on Monday. Hours later, the Coalition announced an arrest warrant had been issued for Sadr. But the cleric had already told his supporters that the time for peaceful protest had passed, urging them to "terrorize" the Americans and their allies...
...hunting dogs, "left many weeping wives behind so that his pampered canines could fly with him on his plane." Despite their claims to divine status, India's maharajas knew they were just paid-up domestic help for the British, as one anecdote tellingly reveals: when he took the British viceroy of India out on tiger hunts, the maharaja of Gwalior measured the animals shot by his guest "with a special tape that had eleven inches to a foot," so that the Englishman would never suffer the ignominy of having bagged the smaller tiger...
...fact that most of the donor pledges corralled by the U.S. last week came in the form of loans and loan-guarantees. Washington had already acceded to the reality that nobody outside its "coalition of the willing" is going to provide funds to be managed directly by U.S. viceroy Paul Bremer, so a separate fund was created under the supervision of the IMF and World Bank to attract grants. But loans, presumably, would be a different matter. Those who loan money to others expect to be repaid, and therefore they need to know that the entity undertaking to repay...
...Shiite Islam's holiest shrines, the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf. Among the more than 80 people killed was Ayatollah Mohammed Bakr al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq - the most important Shiite group participating in the Iraqi Governing Council appointed by U.S. viceroy Paul Bremer...