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To: GST who wrote (120544)	11/28/2003 3:43:14 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Ayatollah Sistani takes charge: Jalal Talabani, the president of the Iraqi Governing Council, traveled to Najaf to confer with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the senior Iraqi cleric who had raised objections to the American plan for indirect elections for a new provisional government. Afterward, both sides appeared to be moving toward a possible compromise. Ayatollah Sistani exercises strong influence over Iraq's majority Shiites, and on Wednesday his spokesmen said he was insisting that the election planned for next June must be a direct, popular ballot and not the indirect caucus election called for in the American plan. nytimes.com My comment: We are seeing a rapid shift in power in Iraq, and the abandoning of the NeoCon agenda. The Iraqi "Governing" Council is now answering to Sistani, not to Bremer. The U.S. has suddenly developed the ability to negotiate and compromise. We are now committed to gradually pulling our troops out, although we have not defeated our enemies. It is immensely ironic, that the U.S. had to be forced to reluctantly accept democracy and real elections, by a Shiite cleric.

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