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To: GST who wrote (157122)	5/10/2003 3:06:33 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Respond to of 164684

Hmm. Guess what - I can download news stories, too. Good thing 'cause you never give the whole story. story.news.yahoo.com BASRA, Iraq/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A senior Shi'ite cleric returning from decades of exile called for a government free of foreign influence on Saturday, hours after the United States presented a U.N. resolution ending sanctions and giving Washington wide-ranging powers in post-war Iraq (news - web sites). Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, leader of Iraq's biggest Shi'ite Muslim group, crossed the border from Iran near the southern city of Basra to a jubilant welcome from crowds of emotional supporters. Shortly afterwards some 100,000 people packed a stadium in Basra to listen to him call for an independent government chosen wholly by Iraqis to replace ousted dictator Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), who was toppled by U.S.-led forces in a war launched on March 20. "This government must be chosen by Iraqis and totally independent," Hakim told them in his first address in Iraq in 23 years. "We will not accept a government that is imposed on us." Hakim's close ties to Iran and the armed militia known as the Badr Forces which he commands have aroused some alarm in Washington, but he has sought to play down those fears. ... Hakim's triumphant return to Iraq signals a jostling for position in a power vacuum that a diverse and fractious former Iraqi opposition is scrambling to fill. His powerful Muslim group belongs to a U.S.-backed Iraqi council which meets regularly to map out a future government. The influential cleric, who was jailed and tortured in the 1970s for opposing Saddam, has headed the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) since 1980 in exile in Iran. "We have gone such a long way in such hard times, we are now on the road to security and stability. This is a jihad (holy war) of reconstruction after the destruction of the oppressors," 63-year-old Hakim said in his address in Basra. It's terrible, isn't it GST? An Iraqi leader wants Iraqis to choose their own government. He wants a holy war of reconstruction, now that the oppressors are destroyed. Doesn't he know that they were better off with Saddam? Tell 'em, GST.