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Iraqi leaders call Bremer ‘a dictator’ in dispute
Members of the Governing
Council believe the American
is trying to impose his will
on the turnover of power
By Liz Sly and Bill Glauber
Chicago Tribune (KRT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq—The rift between
Iraq's Governing Council and the Unit
ed States over the nomination of the
president erupted in acrimony Mon
day, with council members accusing
the chief U.S. administrator of trying to
railroad them into accepting America's
choice for the post.
Members of the U.S.-appointed
Governing Council were to meet Mon
day to finalize candidates for the gov
ernment that will run Iraq after the
United States restores limited sover
eignty June 30, but when they arrived
at the U.S. administration headquar
ters, they said they were greeted by a
message from administrator Paul Bre
mer that the meeting was postponed.
"Mr. Bremer won't let the council
vote, and he says if we vote, he won't
accept the result," said Mahmoud Oth
man, an independent Kurdish council
member. "I Ie is a dictator. I don't know
how he can behave like that. I le's im
posing his will on everybody."
U.S. officials denied Bremer can
celed the meeting or was interfering
with the process of assembling a gov
ernment. UN. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi
had hoped to complete the selection of
the 26-member Cabinet by Monday.
"Ambassador Bremer doesn't call
their meetings; Ambassador Bremer
doesn't cancel their meetings," said
Dan Senor, a spokesman for the Coali
tion Provisional Authority.
As squabbles shook the political
process, violence flared again in the
country.
U.S. troops clashed with rebel Shiite
cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's al-Mahdi
Army militia late Sunday into Monday,
with 20 insurgents killed, according to
local news reports. Two U.S. soldiers
also died, the military said.
Two U.S. soldiers also were killed as
a 500-pound roadside bomb exploded
late Sunday in southeast Baghdad.
In Baghdad on Monday, four people
were killed and 25 wounded by a re
mote-detonated car bomb that left
twisted metal and body parts on one of
the city's main thoroughfares.
rfhe bombing occurred on A1 Kindi
Street about a half-mile from a May 17
blast that killed Izzadine Saleem, the
head of the Governing Council. The
"(Paul Bremer) is a
dictator. I don't Know
how he can behave like
that. He's imposing
his will on everybody."
Mahmoud Othman
Independent Kurdish councilman
target of Monday's bomb attack was
unclear, but U.S. authorities said no
Iraqi political leaders were near the
area of the blast.
"There was a huge explosion and
everything went black," said one wit
ness, Ali Kadhem, 40. "I saw two cars
on fire."
The wrangling over a largely ceremo
nial governmental position continued
to dominate discussion among those
seeking to rule Iraq after the United
States hands over power.
A majority of Governing Council
members are backing their current
president, Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer,
45, a powerful tribal sheik who has
been increasingly critical of U.S. occu
pation authorities recently, officials
said.
The United States and United
Nations are backing another council
member, former Foreign Minister Ad
nan Pachachi, 81, who briefly served in
the Baathist regime before he was
forced into exile in 1971.
It was unclear why the United States
appears to be opposed to al-Yawer's
candidacy. According to an Iraqi offi
cial familiar with the talks, the United
States is concerned that giving the pres
idency to a tribal sheik would rekindle
tribal sentiments within Iraq and per
haps stir resentment among other
tribes.
Al-Yawer's supporters point out that
as leader of Iraq's biggest tribe, the
Shammari tribe, which includes Sun
nis and Shiites among its 3 million
members, al-Yawer is well positioned
to unite Iraqis and dampen religious
sectarianism.
With the deadlock paralyzing the
formation of a new government,
which was supposed to be named by
the end of May, there were reports that
Bremer was considering ending the
stalemate by appointing a third candi
date to the position from outside the
Governing Council.
"It is possible, because the position
of president is not exclusive to the Gov
erning Council, but so far we have not
heard of any other names," said coun
cil spokesman Hamid Al Kifaey.
Othman said the council would re
sist pressure from Bremer.
"He should not press Iraqis so much
to accept this one or that one," Oth
man said. "It's not good if they start im
posing people"
The task of identifying future leaders
was entrusted to Brahimi. But after
weeks of consultations failed to pro
duce a consensus, the council inter
vened and last week named as prime
minister one of its members, Iyad
Allawi, a secular Shiite former exile
who was once backed by the CIA.
The council has agreed with the
United States and United Nations on
most other posts in the new govern
ment, but with the contentious issue of
the presidency threatening to disrupt
the transfer of powers, the United
States appears anxious to wrest back
control of the process, Iraqi officials
said.
'"The problem is that there is confu
sion at the heart of the process," a sen
ior aide to one of the council members
said.
(c) 2004, Chicago Tribune. Distributed
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