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And They Shall Lead...(Iraq's new Governing Council is unveiled)
Seated before an audience at the Baghdad Convention Center, the 25 members of Iraq's new Governing Council looked, at first glance, like an admirable exercise in representative nation-building. It was the council's unveiling, and its members traded jokes and whispered into one another's ears. Here were hard-line fundamentalists sitting next to doctrinaire communists, rural chiefs mingling with sheiks in robes and turbans; a mix of Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites; an Assyrian, a Turkoman and three women. At the council's first meeting on July 13, Dr. Raja Khurzai, the head of a local maternity hospital, was dropped off at the Baghdad Convention Center by her husband. Kurdish leader Masood Barzani rolled up in a motorcade of 17 vehicles spilling out bodyguards and minions.
L. Paul Bremer III, the top American civil administrator who had a large hand in picking the council, originally envisioned a simple advisory group--but the Iraqis argued for, and apparently won, a more authoritative, decision-making role for themselves. Now they've got it, at least on paper: the council will be able to appoint government ministers, run the de-Baathification campaign and start drafting a new constitution to pave the way for eventual elections. But the council's most pressing task will be to prove its legitimacy to the Iraqi people. Until that happens, it may be considered more of a U.S. public- relations ploy than the start of a new Iraq run by Iraqis.
The group's first step will be to overcome their widely differing backgrounds. "When you have a guy with an Islamist head-cap sitting next to a communist," said Jassim Al Hilfi, a leading member of the Communist Party who sat in on some ...
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