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Shiite dissident asserts
he is running Baghdad
Liz Sly
Chicago Tribune (KRT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Baghdad got a
new leader Thursday, but no one
seems to know who he is.
Stepping out of nowhere into the
power vacuum left by the collapse of
Saddam Hussein’s regime, Mo
hammed Mohsen al-Zubaidi, 50, a
Shiite dissident who has spent the
past 24 years in exile, declared him
self the leader of Baghdad and began
setting up an administration in the
corner of an unused coffee shop at
the back of the Palestine Hotel.
Baghdadis said they hadn’t heard
of him, and American officials dis
claimed any involvement in his self
styled Executive Council for the Re
construction of Baghdad. But
Zubaidi, who returned to Baghdad
from London last week, is already
acting as if he runs the city.
He spent the day sweeping in
and out of the lobby of the hotel
surrounded by a presidential-style
throng of advisers, bodyguards and
hangers-on. He visited a hospital
where he pressed flesh with doc
tors and patients. He played host to
a gathering of Baghdad’s tribal lead
ers at his temporary headquarters
in the coffee shop, where he
pledged to work to restore electrici
ty, water and security to Baghdad
— the three biggest complaints of
residents right now.
He issued a proclamation declar
ing himself in charge of the city and
urged all tribal leaders to disarm
their followers and cooperate with
U.S. forces. “The Americans have
given us freedom, and anyone who
shoots an American soldier must be
punished,” he told the gathering of
tribal leaders from around Baghdad.
Such is the confusion in Bagh
dad right now — virtually anyone
could declare himself or herself a
leader and get away with it. Clerics
from Shiite neighborhoods have al
ready moved to fill the power vacu
um by setting up street commit
tees of armed young men to guard
against looters. Zubaidi’s claim to
authority appears to have some
substance, however. He has
launched his own radio station, In
formation Radio, the first Iraqi sta
tion to go on the air since the col
lapse of the Hussein regime’s
propaganda apparatus. On Thurs
day it began broadcasting a mix
ture of Arabic music and anti-Hus
sein propaganda, including
repeated appeals to Iraqi citizens
to report any information on the
whereabouts of members of the
former regime to U.S. Marines.
Zubaidi is staying in a suite of
rooms marked “private” at the Pales
tine Hotel. He said he derives his au
thority from elections that have tak
en place over the past five days
among “important personalities.”
“I was elected by the tribes, the
religious leaders, Sunni and Shiite,
the engineers, the doctors and the
military officers,” he said. “All of
them elected me chief of the execu
tive council of Baghdad.”
Many Baghdadis, who have broad
ly welcomed President Bush’s prom
ises of democracy, were skeptical.
“He had good times, happy times,
outside Iraq, and now he comes
back and declares himself a leader? I
don’t think he will be accepted,” said
Dr. Raed al Khazraji, a doctor at
Iraq’s Kindi Hospital.
U.S. military spokesmen also dis
counted Zubaidi’s claims. “The only
person that maybe could be consid
ered the mayor of Baghdad right now
is the commander general of the 3rd
Infantry Division,” said Marine
spokesman Gpl. John Hoellwarth.
Zubaidi’s announcement coincid
ed with the arrival in Baghdad of
Ahmed Ghalabi, the leader of the op
position Iraqi National Congress
(INC), which has close ties to the
United States. He has taken up resi
dence at the premises of the Iraq
Hunting Club, a former hangout of
Hussein and his relatives, which is
now being closely guarded by U.S.
Special Forces.
Although he is well-known in
Western Circles, Ghalabi has no sup
port base inside Iraq and is perhaps
best known here for his indictment
on corruption charges in Jordan.
© 2003, Chicago Tribune. Distributed by
Knight Ridder/Tribune Information
Services.
News brief
Chairman: PATRIOT Act
won’t become eternal
WASHINGTON—House Judiciary
Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner said
Thursday he would fight any effort
now to make permanent many of the
expanded police powers enacted after
the Sept. 11,2001, terrorist attacks as
part of the USA PATRIOT Act.
“That will be done over my dead
body,” said Sensenbrenner in an
interview.
The Wisconsin Republican also
said it was “way premature” for Con
gress to consider a new package of
anti-terrorism proposals being draft
ed by the Justice Department — a
so-called “Patriot Act Two.”
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Before that happens, he said, the
“burden of proof” is on the Justice
Department to prove the merits of
what he called “Patriot Act One.”
Sensenbrenner’s comments are
notable because he is a critical play
er in the running debate between the
Bush administration and civil liber
ties advocates on both the right and
left who see the new search and sur
veillance powers as a threat to priva
cy and individual rights.
The committee chairman has
charted a middle course in that de
bate, supporting the 2001 PATRIOT
Act despite misgivings. He fought for
the sunset provision in the act,
which provides that some of the gov
ernment’s new surveillance and in
vestigative powers will automatical
ly lapse at the end of 2005 unless
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signs another law extending them.
The Bush administration opposed
the sunset, but agreed to it as part of
a legislative compromise in which it
got most of the new powers it sought.
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some in Congress and the adminis
tration to undo the time limits,
though it’s not clear how serious and
urgent the effort is.
Last week, Sensenbrenner’s Senate
counterpart, Republican Judiciary
Chair Orrin Hatch of Utah, circulated
an amendment to drop the sunset in
the PATRIOT Act. Aides described it
as a tactical move related to another
piece of intelligence legislation.
A Hatch judiciary aide was noncom
mittal Thursday about whether the
senator plans to aggressively pursue a
repeal of the sunset anytime soon.
“I can tell you that Sen. Hatch did
not support the sunset when the PA
TRIOT Act was passed,” spokes
woman Margarita Tapia said. “He
will continue to monitor the biparti
san, constitutional PATRIOT Act to
ensure our intelligence and law en
forcement officials have the neces
sary tools to prevent a terrorist act.”
The Justice Department did not re
turn a phone call seeking comment.
Sensenbrenner said repealing the
sunset provision is a “non-starter”
with his committee, and the “Senate
better not try it.” He called the sun
set rule the only leverage lawmakers
have in overseeing the law and get
ting Attorney General John Ashcroft
and his department to answer ques
tions about how they are using it.
— Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel (KRT)
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