The Anti-Empire Report - Brave New World of Iraqi Sovereignty
By William Blum
* A giant American embassy is being built, to hold a thousand employees.
* Before his departure, the US administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority, L. Paul Bremer, issued a raft of edicts. The new interim government has very limited power to change these laws and regulations, one of which is an elections provision that gives a commission the power to disqualify political parties and any of the candidates they support.
* Bremer also appointed at least two dozen selected Iraqis to key government jobs with multi-year terms.
* The prime-minister, Ayad Allawi, who was chosen by Bremer, is a former (?) CIA asset. (Allawi has a vicious, ruthless background, including working with Saddam Hussein, and reportedly has personally engaged in horrible, sadistic acts as prime minister.)
* The United States retains custody of Saddam Hussein.
* The United States continues to bomb the people of Iraq and smash down their doors wherever and whenever it wishes.
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