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Bremer
Considering Coup in Iraq Over the past few days, Bremer has visited more than 1500 former members of
the Baath Party, including former Defense Minister General Hashim Ahmad, General
Maher Abdel Rashid, who was the commander of the East Tigris Regiment during the
Iran-Iraq war, and some formerly high-ranking officials of the party, namely
Mohammad Zamam Abdel Razaq, Aziz Saleh al Noman, Fazil Mahmud Gharib, Abdel Baqi
Abdel Karim Assa�dun, Yahya Abdellah al Abudi, Eqleh Abde Seqar al Kobeisi,
Rashid Ta�an al Azzawi, Hoda Saleh Ammash, Ghazi Hamud al Obeidi, and Sa�d Abdel
Majid al Faisal.
There are unconfirmed reports that Bremer asked the officials of the former
regime to return to their former posts and to help the U.S. forces establish
peace and security in Iraq.
Bremer�s strenuous efforts to establish security in Iraq are obviously meant
to give a boost to Bush�s reelection campaign. However, it seems that he is
trying to achieve that goal by staging a traditional Iraqi-style coup d'�tat.
It is unfortunate that Bremer has learned nothing about Iraqi culture during
his stay in the country but is taking pointers from former Iraqi dictators, even
though he surely must know that most Iraqi citizens regard this to be abhorrent.
The preliminary details for the coup against the Iraqi people have been taken
care of. It appears that the United States, some regional countries, and the
United Nations representative in Iraq are the main players in the coup plot.
It is believed that the plan calls for the dismissal of prominent members of
the interim Iraqi Governing Council and preventing Shias from becoming
high-ranking officers in the future Iraqi armed forces.
The UN Secretary General�s representative in Iraq, who has extreme
nationalist inclinations, is trying to legitimize the occupation and seeks to
establish an ethnically based neo-Baathist government which would exclude Shias.
Analysts say the plan being prepared by U.S. officials through consultations
with military and political experts from a number of Arab states in the region
will only be implemented as a last resort to prevent a complete failure of the
occupation. This is the real reason why Bremer has been delaying handing over
the approximately 5000 former members of the Baath Party currently detained by
coalition forces to the Iraqi Governing Council for prosecution.
Moreover, U.S. President George W. Bush is no longer blabbering about
establishing democracy in Iraq and recently delegated decision�making power and
responsibility for the establishment of the new government in Iraq to Bremer,
Pentagon military experts, and the UN representative in Iraq.
Unfortunately, by failing to properly assess the internal situation in Iraq,
Bremer is playing with fire, a fire that not only threatens to destroy Iraq but
which could also spread to other countries in the region.
The possibility of the return to power of the wicked criminals of the Baath
Party has incensed the religious leaders of Iraq. If the plot is implemented,
the Iraqi people will definitely not remain silent. And if nothing is done to
remedy the situation, all this will certainly lead to a civil war in
Iraq. The Mulindwas Communication Group
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