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...response that drew applause, Lieberman cited the recent arrest of almost 800 immigrants and foreign nationals as an “un-American” abuse of the government’s power. The best thing about the PATRIOT Act, Lieberman, said, was that Congress had installed a sunset clause...
...Washington's efforts to expand the number of foreign fighters on its own side in Iraq have proved disappointing. Despite the new UN Security Council resolution, India, Bangladesh and Portugal have said no; Pakistan and South Korea have prevaricated, with the former increasingly unlikely to get involved. The best news on that front had been the decision by Turkey to deploy more than 10,000 troops, but then opposition from the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council appears to have stymied that possibility...
...Bush administration has now recognized that the key to resolving the security crisis in Iraq is to get more Iraqis involved. That, of course, is a position shared by everyone from the French and the UN to the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council. The question is how to do it. Washington wants to accelerate the training of Iraqi security forces to get them out on to the streets, presumably still under the overall command of the U.S., in order to "put an Iraqi face" on the occupation. The IGC is composed of a variety of competing interests, and its members...
...Monday with the bloodiest single day in Baghdad since the capital fell to U.S. forces, killing at least 34 people and wounding more than 200 in attacks on the headquarters of the International Red Cross and four Iraqi police stations around Baghdad. (Following the example of the UN before it, the ICRC has responded to the attack by preparing to withdraw most of its personnel from Iraq until such time as security improves...
...essentially requiring that a sovereign Iraqi government be put in place before any funds are forthcoming. And that appears to be a way of putting some muscle behind the demand for a speedy restoration of Iraqi sovereignty articulated by the Europeans and Arabs in the weeks preceding the latest UN Security Council resolution...