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To: American Spirit who wrote (51478)	7/3/2005 2:43:00 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 173976

Mayor of Baghdad wants to resign because Baghdad is a huge mess! Egyptian Ambassador to Iran is kidnapped. Now that's peace and security for you...Bush/Rummy style. ==== Worn-out Baghdad finally gets to mayor AP 2005-07-01 02:38:06 BAGHDAD -- The mayor of Baghdad decried the capital's crumbling infrastructure and its inability to supply enough water to its residents, threatening yesterday to resign if the government fails to provide the funds he needs to improve utilities. Alaa Mahmoud al-Timimi complained he was having no success in talks for funds to rebuild Baghdad's crumbling infrastructure. "It's useless for any official to stay in office without having the means to accomplish his job," he said at a news conference. "I am still committed to my promise that I will quit . . . if I don't get the instruments that allow me to carry out the plan I put for Baghdad." Al-Timimi's threat came as the U.S. military claimed some success over Baghdad's other major problem, car bombs and suicide attackers. "We had some degree of success with this deliberate operation because of partnership between Iraqi security forces and the coalition forces. We had a measurable success," said U.S. air force Brig.-Gen. Don Alston for coalition forces in Iraq. He didn't supply specific numbers. Separately, more than 1,000 suspected insurgents captured during Operation Lightning since it began May 29 will face criminal trials in the coming days, police Col. Adnan Adul Rahman said without elaborating. The operation has not yet been completed. U.S.-led forces have detained more than a dozen suspected militants in a counterinsurgency sweep through western Anbar province as part of a sustained effort to disrupt the flow of foreign fighters into Iraq, the military said Thursday. They have been blamed for much of the violence that has killed more than 1,370 people -- mostly civilians and Iraqi forces -- since Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari announced his Shiite-led government April 28.