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	Iraqi Governing Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In September 2003, the Iraqi Governing Council gained regional recognition from the Arab League, which agreed to seat its representative in Iraq's chair at its meetings.
		The TAL spelled out the provisions which were to govern the Iraqi Interim Government, and the timeline for holding elections to a National Assembly, drafting of a permanent constitution to be voted on by the Iraqi people, and elections to a permanent government.
		Other legislation passed by the council included declaring the day that Baghdad fell to be a national holiday, voting to establish a tribunal to try former government leaders, and banning television stations which are deemed to be supportive of the resistance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iraq_Interim_Governing_Council (644 words)

	washingtonpost101203
		Iraq's Governing Council voted yesterday to expel the leading Iranian opposition group and confiscate its assets, a surprise move that could alter the regional balance of power.
		The Iraqi council's unanimous decision against the People's Mujaheddin, or MEK, is a significant political and security gain for Iran and could marginalize the group or even eliminate it as an effective opposition movement.
		The Iraqi council's resolution calls for the closure of the MEK headquarters in Baghdad and a prohibition on its members' engaging in any political activities until their departure.
	www.iran-interlink.org /files/News/washingtonpost101203.htm (764 words)

	Middle East Report Online: The Iraqi Governing Council's Sectarian Hue, by Raad Alkadiri and Chris Toensing
		The creation of the IGC revived the political fortunes of formerly exiled groups, particularly the Iraqi National Congress headed by Ahmad Chalabi, which were rapidly becoming marginal in the aftermath of the war, as the US discovered how little support they had among Iraqis.
		The 25-person council, which met for the first time on July 13, was intended to signal that the US and Britain are devolving political power quickly to Iraqis, in an attempt to deflect local criticism of their performance in restoring security and basic services like electricity and water.
		Bremer negotiated the formation of the IGC with a number of political players, but he chose to give overwhelming primacy to the views of the main pre-war opposition parties and their allies, the so-called "Group of Seven," most of whom were outside Saddam-controlled Iraq during the last two decades of war and sanctions.
	www.merip.org /mero/mero082003.html (2384 words)

	Iraqi Governing Council President Killed in Attack (washingtonpost.com)
		At least seven Iraqis were killed and five were wounded, and two U.S. soldiers were slightly injured, in a devastating attack on Iraq's political leadership six weeks before the scheduled handover of limited political power to a new Iraqi government.
		The explosion killed Izzedine Salim, who had held the rotating presidency of the Governing Council since May 1 and was a leader of the Islamic Dawa Party, one of the most influential Shiite Muslim political factions in Iraq.
		Washington Post correspondent Scott Wilson reports from Baghdad where the president of the Iraqi Governing Council was killed by a suicide bomber outside the headquarters of the U.S.-led occupation authority.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A32354-2004May17.html (771 words)

	Iraqi governing council begins to take shape (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The governing council of 25 to 30 leading Iraqis will be the first step in a 12- to 15-month process that will likely involve a constitutional referendum followed by the first free elections in Iraq in decades, according to a senior Western diplomat who laid out the blueprint of Iraq's path to democracy.
		According to the diplomat, Iraqis will have some say as to the makeup of the council, but he acknowledged participants must be willing to accept the coalition's main goals for Iraq.
		Two to three weeks after the governing council is established, a separate committee will be given about six weeks to form a 200- to 250-strong constitutional convention, which will decide what form of government Iraq should have.
	www.messenger-inquirer.com /news/war/6043139.htm (988 words)

	CPA Iraq
		The Governing Council was appointed by Coalition Provisional Authority Administrator L. Paul Bremer on July 13, 2003.
		The United Nations Security Council in described the Council as “broadly representative” and praised its formation as “an important step towards the formation by the people of Iraq of an internationally recognized, representative government…” in Resolution 1500.
		She heads the Iraqi Women’s Organisation (based in Kirkuk) which aims to bring together all the female communities of Iraq.
	www.cpa-iraq.org /government/governing_council.html (750 words)

	Iraqis push for U.N. role, return - The Washington Times: World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Key members of the council and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan are to meet in New York on Jan. 19 to discuss the shape of the organization's role in building Iraq's future.
		The Iraqi leadership has clamored for the United Nations to return, and many nations — particularly those opposed to the war — have insisted that they cannot participate in the reconstruction without a leading role for the international body.
		But the Governing Council — representing diverse religious, geographic and ethnic constituencies — has been passionate in its desire to see the organization shoulder some of the work of rebuilding.
	www.washingtontimes.com /world/20040107-110324-3703r.htm (780 words)

	Iraqi Governing Council names Cabinet - The Washington Times: World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Iraqi mourners escort a truck transporting the symbolic coffin of Iraqi Shi'ite Cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim during a funeral procession in Karbala, Iraq.
		The Oil Ministry will be headed by Ibrahim Muhammad Bahr al-Uloum, the son of Governing Council member Muhammad Bahr al-Uloum, who on Saturday suspended his membership in the interim body because of the lack of security in the country and what he saw as the coalition's inability to protect prominent figures.
		It was not clear what delayed announcing the Cabinet, but several council members had spent much time after their appointment on trips throughout the world seeking recognition for the body as the legitimate representative of the Iraqi people.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20030902-121413-7877r.htm (854 words)

	Security Council: Iraqi Governing Council 1st Step (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The first Council member to speak, Syrian Ambassador Mikhail Wehbe, said he attached enormous importance to the role the UN was expected to play.
		He welcomed the establishment of the Governing Council, which he said should lead to the establishment of national sovereignty, and especially hailed the presence of women on it.
		Germany, for its part, saw the Governing Council a partner with whom the international community could engage and encouraged it to assume its responsibility and lay the groundwork for the convening of a constitutional conference, Ambassador Gunter Pleuger said.
	www.novinite.com /view_news.php?id=24543 (969 words)

	Iraqi Governing Council
		On 30 December 2003, the Governing Council requested that the Secretary-General dispatch a United Nations team to Iraq to assess the feasibility of direct elections within the June 30 timeframe and, if not, what alternatives could be recommended.
		The council had originally scheduled the signing ceremony for March 3, but postponed it out of respect for the mourning period for Iraqis lost in the March 2 terrorist attacks in Baghdad and Karbala.
		The transitional government would be "led by a Prime Minister and comprising Iraqi men and women known for their honesty, integrity and competence, and that there would also be a President to act as Head of State and two Vice-Presidents." A large national conference will be held to promote national reconciliation and consensus.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/igc.htm (2397 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Iraqi governing council rejects Muslim peacekeepers
		Washington is also seeking to put a draft resolution before the UN security council today that would lead to its 130,000 troops in Iraq being reinforced with international forces, some of which are certain to be from Muslim countries.
		The council members said they would prefer a formula that allowed Iraq to take charge of its own security as soon as possible, with exisiting coalition troops making way for the eventual emergence of more Iraqi security forces.
		Washington's latest draft resolution sets a December 15 deadline for the Iraqi governing council to produce a timetable for the transfer power to Iraqis - an attempt to meet the demands of Russia and France for a swift move to democracy.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1063508,00.html (448 words)

	Iraqi Governing Council - SourceWatch
		Kevin Komarow, Iraqi Governing Council in 'a serious crisis' (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyandcid=676andncid=676ande=1andu=/usatoday/20031204/ts_usatoday/12056589), USAToday, December 4, 2003: "six months after its creation as a bridge to democracy, the Iraqi Governing Council may be hampering the U.S.-led coalition's efforts to speed up the transfer of political power to Iraqis.
		The 24-member council, appointed by U.S. authorities, is: Locked in a dispute over elections; Blamed by many Iraqis for the lack of security, power outages and other problems in the country; [and] Losing support from Iraqis who see its members as aloof and mostly interested in self-promotion.
		Hamza Hendawi, Iraq Council May Not Exist Past July (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyandcid=514ande=15andu=/ap/20031211/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_politics), AP, December 11, 2003: "The U.S.-appointed Governing Council will not be allowed to exist beyond July 1, when a provisional Iraqi government with full sovereign powers takes office, coalition officials said, despite the desires of most council members to keep it going.
	www.sourcewatch.org /wiki.phtml?title=Iraqi_Governing_Council (1374 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Observers said that Arab countries fear the recognition of the council could appear to be giving it a status of a full-fledged government and undermine their efforts to pressure the U.S. and British forces into ending their occupation now in its fifth month and turn over power into the hands of Iraqis.
		On August 14, the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution that "welcomed" the establishment of the council, but stopped short of formally "endorsing" it due to a "semantic battle" between the council's five permanent member states.
		Syrian U.N. Ambassador Mikhail Wehbe, the council's lone Arab member, had argued that only the Iraqi people could judge their government and it was not the Security Council's role to welcome the U.S.-appointed Governing Council.
	www.islamonline.net /English/News/2003-08/26/article05.shtml (697 words)

	CBC News:Head of Iraqi Governing Council assassinated
		BAGHDAD - The president of the Iraqi Governing Council was killed on Monday when a suicide bomber attacked a convoy in Baghdad.
		The council announced he would be replaced by Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, a civil engineer from the northern city of Mosul.
		The second member of the council to be assassinated, Salim had been the head of an Islamic party in Basra and the editor of several Iraqi newspapers and magazines.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2004/05/17/world/iraq_council040517 (476 words)

	Iraq Crisis, 2002–Present
		The UN's formal report on Iraqi inspections is highly critical, though not damning, with chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix stating that "Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance, not even today, of the disarmament that was demanded of it."
		The U.S. and Britain's intense lobbying efforts among the other UN Security Council members yield only four supporters (in addition to the U.S. and Britain, Spain and Bulgaria); nine votes (and no vetoes from the five permanent members) out of fifteen are required for the resolution's passage.
		Iraqi mob kills and mutilates four America civilian contract workers and then drags them through the streets of Falluja, a city west of Baghdad that is part of the Sunni triangle.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/iraqtimeline2.html (4624 words)

	Iraqi Governing Council President Killed in Attack
		At least 10 Iraqis were killed and six were wounded, and two U.S. soldiers were slightly injured, in a devastating attack on Iraq’s political leaders six weeks before the scheduled handover of limited political power to a new Iraqi government.
		Even the Governing Council members are Iraqis too." Leith said that the street had never been the target of such an explosion before, but he said that U.S. soldiers discovered and safely defused an improvised explosive device, or roadside bomb, on the street about three weeks ago.
		U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has proposed abolishing the council on June 30, when the U.S. occupation is to formally end, and replacing it with a caretaker government of technocrats.
	www.iraqfoundation.org /archives/news/2004/emay/17_updates.html (502 words)

	Iraq's Governing Council
		The Governing Council decided to dissolve itself on 1 June 2004, as part of the creation of an interim government.
		Served as the temporary chair of the Governing Council on its inauguration, and became one of the 9 members of the rotating presidency.
		Thirteen members of the Council are Shi'a (of whom 5 or 6 are Islamists), five are Kurdish (of whom 1 or 2 are Islamists), five are Sunni Arabs (of whom at least one is an Islamist), one is Christian and one is Turkoman.
	middleeastreference.org.uk /iraqgc.html (1087 words)

	CNN.com - Iraqi council replaces slain leader - May 17, 2004
		Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmed Chalabi expresses shock and anger after the attack.
		The council selected Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawar as president after a suicide bomber killed Izzedine Salim on Monday morning in Baghdad, rattling the U.S.-backed coalition as it prepares to hand over sovereignty of the country to Iraqis on June 30.
		An estimated 20 Iraqi fighters were killed Monday when coalition warplanes struck at five trucks believed to be carrying weapons to Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya, Kimmitt said.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/05/17/iraq.main (1138 words)

	New Iraqi Governing Council Meets for First Time
		The interim government is to include the leaders of the main Kurdish factions, Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani, prominent exiles like Ahmad Chalabi and Iyad Alawi, and leaders from Shiite parties like the Daawa and the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
		The behind-the-scenes drama described by one Iraqi political figure included a late-night demand by the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the Shiite religious party, that three names be removed from the government roster.
		The interim government will be desperately short of financial resources with which to carry out a reconstruction program, as Iraqi crude oil sales, even under the most optimistic scenarios, fall far short of meeting the funding requirements to finance the new state, a number of experts have said.
	www.peacewomen.org /news/Iraq/newsarchive03/newIraqcouncil.html (882 words)

	Outside The Beltway : Iraqi Governing Council Fractured
		Leading members of the Governing Council blamed the US siege of the rebel Sunni town of Falluja and its assault on forces loyal to a radical cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, for inflaming tensions.
		The Iraqi government will be handpicked by the Americans as the present governing council has been (In Iraq, the IGC are referred to dismissively by Iraqis as “The governed council” and even they are starting to come apart).
		Could it be that Iraqis are rising up, not because they are part of the “Freedom Hater’s Club” that Bush refers to, but because they are fed up with the LACK of democracy and freedom (not to mention security and stability)in their country.
	www.outsidethebeltway.com /archives/5739 (878 words)

	U.N. Plan May Oust Iraqi Governing Council for `Technocrats'
		While they expected the existing Governing Council to dissolve June 30, they were stunned by Brahimi's suggestion that many or all of them should have no position in the caretaker government.
		Iraqis discount them as thieves or opportunists who they suspect have returned to Iraq to make lucrative contacts with the ministries of finance or trade.
		On Tuesday, the council met with members of Islamic groups, many of whom complained that Brahimi's plan does not include a legislative body, according to the council's spokesman, Hamid al-Kafaai.Iraqis such as Amer Fayadh, a professor at Baghdad University, said they want a say in the process of choosing their government.
	www.iraq4u.com /forum/fb.asp?m=1557 (918 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Arabs debate response to the IGC
		A team of the Iraqi interim authority arrived in Abu Dhabi on Sunday, the first leg of a regional tour that seeks to garner political support from fellow Arab leaders.
		The trip comes shortly after the Arab League's Follow-Up Committee proposed that the Arab countries should not recognise the Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) as a representative of Iraq because it is not elected, and therefore not legitimate.
		Pachachi said "The Iraqi people, more than anyone else, wanted elections so that a legitimate government could be formed." But he wondered how this was possible in the absence of a constitution or election procedures.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/652/re6.htm (875 words)

	USATODAY.com - Iraqi Governing Council in 'a serious crisis' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The council has little power, but it was supposed to be the first step in the creation of a democratic government.
		Convinced that the insurgency will dwindle when Iraqis are in charge of their country, the Coalition Provisional Authority wants to speed up plans to turn over security and government responsibilities to Iraqis.
		The move has raised suspicions among Iraqis that the council members want to cling to power and have put their own interests before Iraq's.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2003-12-03-council_x.htm (1196 words)

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