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To: Road Walker who wrote (183025)	2/19/2004 11:41:43 AM
From: tejek	of 1577192

Date for Iraqi Power Transfer Unchangeable - Bremer "PA" Changes are possible in the formula for establishing a new Iraqi government but the date for the coalition to hand over power remains firm, US administrator Paul Bremer said today. “Changes are possible but the date holds,” Bremer said in Baghdad. He also said that despite the June 30 hand-over of power, US forces will remain in Iraq until Iraqis ”are able to assure their own security.” Bremer spoke ahead of an expected announcement by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan whether he believes legislative elections are possible by June 30. Annan is expected to say that elections are important but they cannot be held by the end of June, despite demands by the country’s influential Shiite Muslim clergy. Bremer also said he expected President George Bush to win re-election in November and that there would be no change in American policy in Iraq. “The American people understand the importance of what we’ve done here,” he said. Bremer said he would wait until Annan’s announcement before discussing ways to form a new government. The United States had proposed choosing a new legislature in regional caucuses but the idea has little support within the Iraqi Governing Council. He also said that seven people arrested Wednesday in Baqouba, whom the US military described as possibly linked to al-Qaida, appeared to be “Iraqi extremists” rather than foreign fighters. In Washington, a senior US official said the Bush administration was prepared to drop the caucus plan and hand over power to an expanded Governing Council until elections can be held. Bremer said he believed the US appointed Governing Council was “working well” and had made progress in winning the respect and support of the Iraqi people. Bremer side-stepped the contentious issue of whether Islamic sharia law should be the basis for Iraq’s legal code in the interim constitution, which is to take effect at the end of the month. Some council members would like sharia to be the principal basis rather than “a basis.” news.scotsman.com

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