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...Another glitch was timing. The quarantine measures did not go into effect until March 31, three days after they were announced. That lag proved crucial. In the interim, SARS cases at Amoy Gardens soared from seven to 213, and before a lockdown could be implemented there, 113 families living in the complex packed their bags and fled. Instead of separating them from the rest of the city, health officials lost track of them...
...deeply suspicious of Chalabi. They question his claim to have popular support inside Iraq, and warn against preempting the Iraqis' choosing their own new leaders and installing a group viewed with considerable skepticism in the Arab world. Britain is also urging a speedy transition to an interim government. But its proposal is radically different from Rumsfeld's - it envisages such a government emerging out of a UN-sponsored convention of all of Iraq's political and social leadership once Saddam is ousted...
...objectives for a free Iraq." The U.S. may not even wait for Saddam's ouster; Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Richard Myers said Thursday that rather than fight street-by-street for the capital, coalition forces may simply isolate Iraq's ruler and his loyalists and allow an interim authority to begin governing the country...
...Bush administration's battle over the staffing of an interim administration is only part of the wider debate over how to replace Saddam. The primary concern of the allies that have joined the U.S. in sending forces to Iraq - Britain and Australia - is to give the United Nations ultimate authority over rebuilding the country. Tony Blair would have a hard time keeping his troops in Iraq unless the occupation was legally sanctioned by UN resolution. But he has not yet managed convince President Bush, and after the two men met at Camp David last week, Blair acknowledged that Britain...
Johnny N. Williams, interim director for immigration interior enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security, maintained that while SEVIS has had problems over the course of the past year, it provides a vital service to the nation in a time of security concerns...