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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (97457)	5/5/2003 3:25:20 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 281500

U.S. Administrator: Group of Nine Will Probably Head Iraqi Interim Government By Charles J. Hanley Associated Press Writer May 5, 2003 BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A council of up to nine Iraqis will probably lead the country's still unformed interim government through the coming months, the American civil administrator said Monday. Retired Lt. Gen. Jay Garner also said he expects the newly appointed L. Paul Bremer, former head of the State Department's counterterrorism office, to take charge of the political process within the U.S. postwar administration. "What you may see is as many as seven, eight, nine leaders working together to provide leadership," Garner said. He added, though, that he didn't know how the collective leadership would function specifically. The Iraqi leaders Garner referred to were Massoud Barzani; leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party; Ahmad Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress; Jalal Talabani of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan; Iyad Allawi of the Iraqi National Accord; and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, whose elder brother heads the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq. The five met several times late last week, and at least one meeting was attended by White House envoy Zalmay Khalilzad. Garner said the group would probably be expanded to include, for example, a Christian and perhaps another Sunni leader. Bremer is expected to arrive in Iraq by next week, Garner said. "He will get more involved in the political process. I'm doing all of it and don't want to do all of it. ... We really need a dedicated effort," on the political side, Garner said. He said the appointment of someone such as Bremer had been planned all along and that he was intended to be here temporarily. "I'll stay a while. There's got to be a good handoff," he said. Garner spoke as he prepared to leave for a one-day trip to Basra, where he will be visiting a school, a hospital and an oil refinery and will be conferring with a local sheik. As his Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance works with the occupying U.S. military force to restore order in Baghdad, Garner said the coming weeks will be crucial to such efforts. "The month of May is a key month for getting all the public services stood up or at least with a good prospect of being stood up and getting the law enforcement system back," Garner said. He said one disappointment thus far has been his operation's inability to inaugurate an extensive television and radio broadcast system for Iraq. The satellite TV service broadcasting so far has been available to only a few Iraqis. "We haven't done a good job," Garner said. "I want TV going to the people ... with a soft demeanor, programs they want to see." AP-ES-05-05-03 0236EDT This story can be found at: ap.tbo.com Go Back To The Story

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (97457)	5/5/2003 3:26:15 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 281500

I cn believe that Chirac was...definitely in the frappes...

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (97457)	5/5/2003 3:52:50 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

U.S. Warns Syria It Is Watching Its Actions--Back From Middle East, Powell and Rumsfeld Say Assad Was Told of Consequences By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, May 5, 2003; Page A15 CRAWFORD, Tex., May 4 -- Just back from their separate trips to the Middle East, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld both warned Syria today that the United States will be watching for positive changes in behavior. Powell, who visited Damascus on Saturday, said he told President Bashar Assad that there will be "consequences" if Syria does not cease support for Palestinian groups that the United States regards as terrorist organizations, or if it attempts to harbor escapees from Iraq. "It's performance that we'll be looking at in the days and weeks and months ahead," Powell said of Assad. "We had a good, candid exchange of views, and there are no illusions in his mind as to what we are looking for from Syria," he said. "Words are one thing," Rumsfeld said. "Actions are another." Rumsfeld, who returned Friday from a tour of the Persian Gulf states and Iraq, and Powell, who arrived late last night, spoke on Sunday talk shows this morning. Powell seemed to step back from comments he made after leaving Damascus on Saturday that Assad had shut down Palestinian offices there. "They did closures," he had said in a Beirut news conference. "I expect them to do more." Today, Powell said that Assad had indicated it was his intention to close the offices. In Damascus, representatives of Islamic Jihad, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the most prominent Palestinian groups, said they had not received orders to close and were operating as usual, Reuters reported today. REST AT:http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A13848-2003May4?language=printer