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To: Rascal who wrote (38241)2/21/2004 7:40:27 PM
From: lurqer  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 89467
 
A view from inside Iraq.

Little faith in Iraqi leaders: poll

A POLL of university-educated Iraqi men in Baghdad shows almost three out of every four do not believe the country's current leaders are fit to take over from the US-led coalition.

The poll to be published by the independent Al-Zaman newspaper found 72 per cent felt there was "no (current) political leaders who are acceptable or capable of receiving power".

Only 11 per cent said some of the Iraqi leaders on the US-appointed interim Governing Council were fit to take the reins of the strife-torn country from the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority.

Sixty per cent also said they did not want to see any members of the Governing Council at the helm of Iraq.

The poll, conducted over the past week, surveyed 1190 Iraqi men in the capital who had attended university.

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theaustralian.news.com.au

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