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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SiouxPal who wrote (26572)	5/28/2004 7:36:31 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 81568

CIA Operative Picked As new Iraqi PM BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iyad Allawi, a former member of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s Baath party who worked with the CIA (news - web sites) to topple him, was chosen as prime minister of Iraq (news - web sites) Friday. Charged with taking over from U.S.-led occupation authorities on June 30 and leading his country to its first free elections next year, Allawi's nomination emerged by consensus at a meeting of the 25 U.S. appointees on Iraq's Governing Council. The United Nations (news - web sites), called in by Washington to help shape the new interim government, was caught off guard when the Governing Council announced Allawi had been chosen, but said it respected the decision. "It's not how we expected it to happen," chief U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said in New York. "(U.N. envoy Lakhdar) Brahimi respects the decision and is prepared to work with this person on the selection of the other posts in this interim government," said Eckhard. An official in President Bush (news - web sites)'s administration said: "We thought (Allawi) would be an excellent prime minister. ... I think that this is going to work."