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Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Basm Ozeti After Saddam • By Siyamend Othman The right way to choose a successor regime LONDON than it would be in Afghanistan. Iraq has the finan- Judging by the rhetoric heard in WashingtoD, it cial resources, the institutions and a highly poofesappears that President George W. Bush has fi- sional cadre needed to rebuild the counlrT.. nally opted for a cbange of regime in Iraq. But ad- It now appears' that the United States Willsupport ministration officiais are paying scant attention the convening of an enlarged conference of the Iraqi to the one option that has a cbance of working in opposition. However, this opportunity should not Iraq and that can win the overwhelming support of become a platform for promoting Saddam's former the country's 22 million people. That is the option of generals and civilian henrhmen. working to replace Saddam Hussein's atrocity-laden Th unite the opposition to SaddaID, the United regime with a federal and democratic state. States must speak with one powerful and clear voice Instead, many in the CIA and the State Depart- that bas the authority of the president. Nothing will ment seem to be focusing on replacing Saddam by come of the noises made by competing bureaucraformer army officers in an effort to perpetuate the cies in Washington. Iraqis bave bad earfuls of these ascendancy of Sunni Arabs who constitute less for Cartoo long. No wonder so many inside Iraq CODthan 20 per cent of Iraq's population. This is a re- tinue to sit on the fence. Before risking their lives, cipe for civil war and the dismemberment of the they understandably want to be c~nvinced of U.S. country. • ming! Hardly a .weekpasses by Without so~e see y commitment at the highest leveL The United States can impress upon all componew bluepnnt being proposed. If Washington loo~ nents of the Iraqi opposition that they will only be confused, th«; ~ple ofIra'l. are even more :- (lIratps guaranteed U.S.and international support ifthey upn~ no remmdlng ~t ~Ir country has uture hold democratic values and respect the electoral while Saddam remaIDS m power. They also recog- .. If. • ul.... th Ira . . th t t.d f bis re2Ïme WI.thoutU S pnnclp eo maJonty r e•.l'orIts part, e qlOppo- Dlze ey canno ge n 0 -:-~ • • 'ti' . ted b S dda ' assistance. Although some are still skeptical about SI. OD,~ y. a m s.savagery, m~t grasp tr U S • tenti' th is new hope that this time thiS opportunity to ose above ~ts ~~ f~dlDg a~d ue .. m. ons, ere • show the maturity needed at thIS cntical Juncture m Uncle Sam mten~s to go the distance. '_ its country's history. Itwill not get a second chance . . But ~ Iraql.5do not ~ders~d l;he U.S. ~s The United States should also cease pandering to sion Withp~ SunmAra!>mmonty rule, which Iraq's neighbors. Iraqis are justifiably concerned by presupposes continued do~~ by Isad~ army, a force that has been Vlctorious so ely the em~is being placed in Washin~on on these states' mvolvement in decisions affecting the sbape pressing its own people. There are no Iraqi Eisenhow- of their future government. None of these neighbors ers. The Iraqi people distrust all their generals. Iraqis has an interest in what Iraqis really yearn for: freealso fail to comprehend why different power centers dom and prosperity. in Washington have been keep~ the Iraqi opposition In July 2000, Hamid Karzai, then a little known divided by pitting one group against another. Afghan and now his nation's interim leader, testify- For all its shortcomings, the Iraqi opposition is far ing before a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee, less fractured and more politically sophisticated implored the U.S. government "to look at Afghanisthan its Afghan counterpart. Yet, under U.S.pres- tan from the perspective of Afghanistan and not tbat sure, the Afghans met in Germany and came up with of its neighbors. The time to watch is over and the a formula that was accepted by all but a few who responsibility to act is long overdue," he said. Iraqis bave since been marginalized. Why couldn't the bave been pleading for precisely this treatment for same be done in the Iraqi case? We are rightly being told that Iraq is not Afghanistan. more than a decade now But this is exactly why laying the foundations The writer, cm independent Iraqi analyst, contrib- of democracy in Iraq is eminently more feasible uted this comment to the International Herald Tribune Magazine reopens debate in U.S. on Qaeda-Iraq link By John Mintz Th.,Wa-;t.,ngt~i>;st WASHINGTON: A report in the New Yor~E'rmagazine su~ests that Iraqi intellIgence has been ID close touch with top officials in Osama bin Laden's network for years and that the two organizations jöintly run a terrorist group that ùperates in the Kurdish area of northernlraq; The CrA bas largely discounted the proposition that the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, has maintained links with the network, Al Qaeda. A hawkish faction within f'e Bush administration that favors mihtüry action agäinst Iraq, centeredmostly in the top ranks of the Defense Department, has scoured the world for connections between Saddam and Al Qaeda. On Sunday, some people in this camp hailed the New Yorker article as significant new evidence buttressing their viewpoint. The article focuses in part on a Muslim extremist guerrilla group Îll the Kurdish zone of Iraq, Ansar al Islam, which it said was made up of Iraqi Kurds and Arabs trained in bin Laden's camps. The arti~le's author, Jeffrey Goldberg, wrote that he had interviewed several opetatives of the 'group who had been captured by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, a pro-American Kurdish group Ih,lt eOlltrob ont' province ill northern Ir:tq. The captive~' said that Saddam and AI IJ:It'da ran Ansar. that a number of
Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Basm Özeti to su(~hcomplex assertions over a we'.::kend. James Woolsey, an ex-director of œlltral intelligence who favors military aclion 'against Iraq and 'is criticalof his former agency's performance on Middle East terrorism, called the New Yorker aiticle"a blockbuster." "The CIA has over recent years, not been real enthusiastic about the Iraqi resistance, and I think that's a shame," Woolsey said'on CNN: "If they got beat on this story by the New Yorker and Jeff Goldberg. three cheers for the fourth estate." A 'former senior U.S. official with deep experience in U.S. policy toward Inlt!, said, "This is clearly a very importa lit story." He added that it was likely that Saddam would try to destabilizè the Kurdish areas by using Ansar al Islam and that was possible Al Qaeda c:ould have ties to the group, known by its acronym, PUK. ' But he expressed skepticism about the idea that U.S. intelligence agencies 'did not know what these Ansar captives were saying, given the high priority the Bush administration has placed on findinJ.:,any connections between :saddam and bin Laden. "I'd be surprised if our intelligence people haven't picked up on this, if in fact these guys have been held by the PUK for months," he said.' ,'. Under an Il-year-old arrangement after the Gulf War, the Patriotic Union ofKurdistan and a rival Kurdish faction cùntrul three semiautonomous provinces ill northern Iraq, and are protected frum Iraqi attack by U.S.and British combi'ltjets. ITALIE Une majorité des clandestins sont des Kurdesfuyant le régime de Saddam Hussein N o N i "Ùimilli;r de clandestins kurdes débarquent en Sicile Nouveaudébarquement massif d'immigrants en Sicile, le dixièmedepuis le début de J'année : un millier de clai1destins, en majorité kurdes, a rallié hier le port de Catane. Leur.arrivée a provoqué une violente passe d'armes entre ministres de Silvia Berlusconi: Umberto Bossi. , leader de la ligue du Nord. estime que le gouvernement fait preuve « d'impuissance» pour enrayer « le romplot international de ceux qui prétendent détruiri! la souveraineté natio- --nate », L'un de ses lieutenants, Rome: GiancarloGiorgetti,pose ouverde notre correspondant tement la question de savoir si Richard Heuzé la ligue « doit rester dans ce ........................................................' gouvernement ». Une prise de , position qualifiée de « provinciale »par ClaudioScalaja. ministre de l'Intérieur et membre de Forza ltalia : « Nous avons le devoir d'accorder l'asile politique aux Kurdes qui fuient la dictature de Saddam Hussein. » Pour faire bonne mesure, M. Scaloja a toutefois dé- Crété« l'état d'urgence » contre J'immigrationdans tout le pays. Les 928 immigrants qui ont déb'arqué au port de Calate étaient entassés à bord du Monica, un rafiot de soixante mètres de IO!.1Raux bastingages Mer Noire 40
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