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Mon 31 May, 2004 07:39 am
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq (news - web sites)'s Governing Council postponed a meeting to select a new Iraqi president by a day Monday, breaking a self-imposed U.N. and coalition deadline to announce a new government by the end of May. Most of Governing Council favors the current head, civil engineer Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, for president, while the Americans back an 81-year-old former foreign minister, Adnan Pachachi. Both men are Sunni Muslim Arabs.
"It's a very complicated business," the former Algerian foreign minister was quoted as saying. "The security situation is just impossible."
Coalition spokesman Dan Senor denied the Americans were showing favoritism toward Pachachi. However, a member of the council speaking on condition of anonymity told The Associated Press that lead U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer and Brahimi were exerting "massive pressure" in support of Pachachi.
Everything the US has done in Iraq has been a failure from the war itself to the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent people! I sincerely doubt that any government the US installs will lead to peace and Democracy. On the contrary, it will lead to the downfall of Iraq and the United States.
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