Thumbnails of Iraqi Leaders

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBVOW21YUD.html

Details on key members of Iraq's new interim government.
-Prime Minister Iyad Allawi: U.S.-backed Shiite Muslim with military and CIA connections. His power base, the Iraqi National Accord, made up largely of former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party and former military men, stresses secularism and counts Sunnis and Shiites among its members.

-President Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer: Prominent Sunni member of the Shammar tribe, which includes Shiite clans and is one of the largest tribes in the Gulf region. The presidency is a largely ceremonial post.

-Vice President Ibrahim al-Jaafari: A leader of the Shiite Muslim Dawa Islamic Party.

-Vice President Rowsch Shaways: Parliament speaker in the Kurdish autonomous region in Irbil and member of Kurdistan Democratic Party, one of two rival parties running northern Iraq.

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1. Guess al-Sadr didn't make the cut

Too bad--we've now insured that fighting will continue

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2. how about this guy : "deputy prime minister"

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Deputy Prime Minister for National Security Affairs Barham Saleh: Close to the Americans, a leader of one of the main Iraqi Kurdish groups, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.
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a deputy PM for natl sec... hmmmm maybe he'll be in charge in case the security situation "deteriorates"?

and this one is good too:

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Oil Minister Thamir Ghadbhan: Has been directing oil matters for months, since first being appointed by the U.S. Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance.
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Sooo oil and security are under control, and the army is as well of course...

Nice sovereignty them eyerakis got goin' there!

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3. The Iraqi Construction Minister will make sure that all U.S. Military

Installations will be build according to the Iraqi building code and the approval of Halliburton or Dick Cheney.

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4. Reality.

Full Sovereignty?
Throughout the spring, as hundreds died in the spiraling conflict, as Regime bosses applied their hardcore "anti-terrorist" tortures to innocent bystanders raked up in their occupation nets, as Regime mouthpieces prated endlessly of "liberation" and "sovereignty," Bush viceroy Paul Bremer was quietly signing a series of edicts that will give the United States effective control over the military, ministries -- and money -- of any Iraqi government, for years to come, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Bremer has placed U.S.-appointed "commissions" made up of Americans and local puppets throughout Iraqi government agencies; the ministers supposedly in charge weren't even told of the edicts. These boards "will serve multiyear terms and have significant authority to run criminal investigations, award contracts, direct troops and subpoena citizens," the Journal reports. Any new Iraqi government "will have little control over its armed forces, lack the ability to make or change laws and be unable to make major decisions within specific ministries without tacit U.S. approval, say U.S. officials."


Earlier Bremer edicts laid the Iraqi economy wide open to ruthless exploitation by Bush-approved foreign "investors"; dominance of such key sectors as banking, communications -- and energy -- is already well advanced. The latest dictates aim to ensure that this organized looting goes on, no matter what kind of makeshift "interim government" the United Nations manage to piece together. Bush's plans to build a Saddamite fortress embassy in Baghdad and 14 permanent military bases around the country are designed to provide the knee-breaking "security" for these lucrative arrangements



http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/05/21/120.html

* Iraq is a US Colony.

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5. Thanks for the pointer,

I hopped along to the source on these Viceroy "edicts" :

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/occupation/2004/0513usgrip.htm

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In March, for instance, Mr. Bremer issued a lengthy edict consolidating control of all Iraqi troops and security forces under the Ministry of Defense and its head, Ali Allawi. But buried in the document is a one-paragraph "emergency" decree ceding "operational control" of all Iraqi forces to senior U.S. military commanders in Iraq. Iraqis will be able to organize the army, make officer appointments, set up new-officer and special-forces courses, and try to develop doctrines and policies to govern the forces. But they can't actually order their forces into, or out of, combat -- that power will rest solely with U.S. commanders.
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pretty interesting in these puppeteer times