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	CNN.com - U.S. returns sovereignty to Iraq - Jun 28, 2004
		The official handover of sovereignty occurred at 10:26 a.m.
		Iraqi authorities will take custody of Saddam and 11 senior members of his regime "over the next few days," according to a statement issued Monday by Salem Chalabi, executive director of the Iraqi Special Tribunal.
		Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari met Monday morning with coalition leaders gathered in Istanbul for the NATO summit.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/06/28/iraq.handover/index.html (948 words)

	Transition to Iraqi Sovereignty
		Full sovereignty and the new interim Iraqi government bring us one step closer to realizing the dream of millions of Iraqis -- a fully sovereign nation with a representative government that protects their rights and serves their needs.
		The Iraqi people are free, they have full sovereignty, and they have an interim government that is governing Iraq and preparing the nation for free elections.
		Iraqis now have access to an ever-growing number of independent sources of news, including newspapers, radio stations, and satellite television networks.
	www.usembassy-mexico.gov /texts/et040628Iraqi_sovereignty.html (890 words)

	Iraqi sovereignty countdown begins in earnest as death toll mounts
		The countdown to sovereignty in Iraq began in earnest on Thursday with a UN team due to arrive in Baghdad imminently to advise on who should lead the violence-wracked country from July.
		Insurgents were hunting "symbolic targets" such as Iraqi interpreters, police and civil defence forces seen as collaborating with the US-led coalition, a senior military official said.
		Separately, witnesses said four Iraqis were killed, including a two-year-old child, and four children wounded during a US operation in the central Iraqi village of Gazwan overnight.
	www.spacewar.com /2004/040325134529.c9xd4esr.html (643 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Ordinary Iraqis, who have been suffering for decades due to the consequences of wars and UN sanctions, were more than willing to give Allawi's US-appointed government a chance to restore stability and end military occupation.
		Iraqis opposed to the presence of foreign troops in the country argue that Iraqi sovereignty as of now is non-existent.
		Salah al-Mukhtar, a former Iraqi ambassador to India, says the whole process of Iraqi sovereignty is void according to the UN charter.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/482C3DBD-F6B4-4C25-983D-00C13EAAD336.htm (838 words)

	President Bush Discusses Early Transfer of Iraqi Sovereignty
		Iraqi officials informed us that they are ready to assume power, and Prime Minister Allawi believes that making this transition now is best for his country.
		Iraqi sovereignty is a tribute to the will of the Iraqi people and the courage of Iraqi leaders.
		From the first hours of Operation Iraqi Freedom and to this very hour, in their battles against the terrorists, America's men and women in uniform have been unrelenting in the performance of their duty.
	www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2004/06/20040628-9.html (4257 words)

	U-WIRE.com/COLUMN: Iraqi 'sovereignty' more linguistic chicanery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Sovereignty is a government's complete independence from outside control.
		However, at the end of the day, the Iraqi government will still be treated as a minor by the United States, which has retained the right to tell Iraq to "eat its peas" and whatever else it likes.
		The Iraqi people are in a transitional phase between the former Ba'athist dictatorship, and hopefully, a functional democracy.
	www.uwire.com /content/topops062904001.html (689 words)

	FRONTLINE: the lost year in iraq: documents: bremer's seven-step plan for iraqi sovereignty \| PBS
		Although Iraqis have freedoms they have never had before, freedom is not sovereignty and occupation is unpopular with occupier and occupied alike.
		We believe Iraqis should be given responsibility for their own security, economic development and political system as soon as possible.
		But the Iraqi people, with the full support of the administration and its coalition partners, are on the way to exercising full political sovereignty.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/yeariniraq/documents/bremerplan.html (856 words)

	Disintegrating Iraqi Sovereignty - by Michael Schwartz and Tom Engelhardt
		To understand what might be called a stalemate of sovereignty lodged at the very center of Iraqi politics for the past three years, each region of the country must be considered separately.
		Both groups sent their militia members into the reconstituted police force, and by fall 2005, an Iraqi official estimated that 90 percent of the force was primarily loyal to one of the two groups.
		While most Iraqis accepted the idea that Kurdistan would retain the autonomy it had achieved under the "no-fly zone" protection of the American Air Force during Saddam's last years, there has been considerable controversy over the Kurdish demand that Kirkuk be incorporated into (and made the capital of) their realm.
	www.antiwar.com /engelhardt/?articleid=8681 (4787 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Limited Iraqi Sovereignty Planned
		The new Iraqi interim government scheduled to take control on July 1 will have only "limited sovereignty" over the country and no authority over U.S. and coalition military forces already there, senior State and Defense officials told Congress this week.
		Whereas in the past the turnover was described as granting total sovereignty to the appointed Iraqi government, Grossman yesterday termed it "limited sovereignty" because "it is limited by the transitional law.
		Wolfowitz noted that the Iraqi police appear to be doing better, but the example he used also shows the weaknesses.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A32753-2004Apr21?language=printer (948 words)

	Fake Iraqi Sovereignty
		According to Noam Chomsky, sovereignty of a nation is: “the right of political entities to be free from outside interference”.
		The conquest of Iraqi resources, including oil, and the protection of Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people were the main reasons for the occupation of Iraq.
		Iraqis have to be proud to decide on the fate of the U.S. presidential election.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article6216.htm (680 words)

	FindLaw's Writ - Raustiala: Restoring Iraqi Sovereignty
		Sovereignty is conventionally defined as supreme political and legal authority within a given territory.
		Sovereignty bestows upon a state international legal personality--the ability to enter into treaties, join international organizations, negotiate loans from the World Bank, and so on.
		The concept of sovereignty is typically dated to the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, which ended the Thirty Years' War in Europe.
	writ.news.findlaw.com /commentary/20040623_raustiala.html (1672 words)

	Another Whopper: Iraqi “Sovereignty”
		The devil is in the details and one of these details is the small clause in the U.N. resolution, prohibiting the new Iraqi government “from taking any actions affecting Iraq’s destiny” beyond the interim period.
		The U.N. resolution refers to the “completion of the political process,” by which is meant the adoption of a permanent Iraqi constitution.
		The sad truth is that the Iraqis do not “have their country back” and for that, matter neither do we.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/0702-09.htm (967 words)

	Iraqi Sovereignty hand over on June 30
		The dictionary defines sovereignty as “supreme power or authority.” It is the right of a state to be self-governing.
		Many people have thought that the June 30 sovereignty date was set by President Bush for political reasons, that is, because it is thought that it would enhance his re-election campaign if it looked like the US was returning control of Iraq to some sort of Iraqi-led government.
		For the new Iraqi government to agree to this, seems a little like a burglar holding a gun to the head of a person and making him sign an agreement to hand over the title of the house.
	www.thecity1.com /columns/660.html (482 words)

	Iraqi sovereignty: June 30, 2004 - SourceWatch
		Under the guise of a 'transfer of sovereignty', the Bush administration is seeking from the Security Council the legal authority to continue the occupation indefinitely.
		Iraqi sovereignty was only to be "over the country [but with] no authority over U.S. and coalition military forces already there." [17]
		"Iraqis wonder now what kind of a state with sovereignty that Washington is giving them after the power transfer in June 30 if the government does not have the right to legislate laws, does not control its army, and Washington chooses its leadership and government.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Iraqi_sovereignty:_June_30,_2004 (2830 words)

	Michael Rubin on Iraq on National Review Online
		Most pundits and academics who suggest the Iraqis will demand an immediate withdrawal have likely never been to Iraq and are more often than not voicing their own prejudices or basing their informed comment on rote repetition of Arabic newspapers.
		Iraqi Kurds, Arab Shia, and even many Arab Sunnis — many of whom were equally victims of the Baath party — have quietly agreed to re-implement de-Baathification.
		Iraqis do not want us to disengage but they do want us to honor their sovereignty.
	www.nationalreview.com /rubin/rubin200501280803.asp (1872 words)

	TomDispatch - Tomgram: Schwartz on symbolic sovereignty in Iraq
		For a government to have sovereignty, it needs three things: a monopoly on the legitimate means of coercion; the material capacity to sustain a country's social and economic infrastructure; and an administrative apparatus capable of overseeing and administering policy.
		Chalabi's house was invaded by Iraqi police, overseen and operating under the command of unidentified American officers, based on a warrant issued by an Iraqi judge appointed by the occupation authority.
		Until the Iraqi police and army have a separate recruitment and command structure from the occupying army, and until they are paid and supplied by Iraqis instead of Americans, they will continue to be an enforcement arm of the U.S. occupation.
	www.tomdispatch.com /index.mhtml?pid=1500 (3166 words)

	Remarks on the Transfer of Iraqi Sovereignty - Council on Foreign Relations
		The United States and our coalition partners are helping prepare Iraqis for the defense of their own country, and we appreciate NATO's decision to approve Prime Minister Allawi's request for assistance in training Iraqi security forces— in training the Iraqi security forces.
		We're helping Iraqis rebuild their country's infrastructure, and Iraq will move— continue moving toward free elections, with important assistance from the United Nations.
		Iraq's prime minister and president have told me that their goal is to eventually take full responsibility for the security of their country.
	www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=7158&issue=25 (1123 words)

	The Laws of War and Iraqi sovereignty at Larvatus Prodeo
		Now, as a result of a number of atrocities committed, the Iraqi Government, distressed that US troops (and bizarrely, contrary to State Department policy, contractors and other civilians) in Iraq are exempted from the reach of the Iraqi justice system by UN Resolution 1546, wants the UN Security Council to revoke the resolution.
		Of course Iraqi sovereignty is the innevitable culmination of the issue, as you point out, and I hope that it gains the attention that it sorely deserves.
		With sovereignty denied, it would be understandable for people to consider the Iraqi Government effectively a puppet of the West.
	larvatusprodeo.net /2006/07/12/the-laws-of-war-and-iraqi-sovereignty (1822 words)

	TomDispatch - Tomgram: Michael Schwartz on Disintegrating Iraqi Sovereignty
		President Bush marked the Iraqi election of December 2005 as the beginning of a new era.
		As a result, the integration of Iraqi units into the occupation military will continue into the foreseeable future, and -- with it -- the incapacity of the Iraqi government to craft and enforce a military policy independent of the occupation.
		Both groups sent their militia members into the reconstituted police force, and by fall 2005, an Iraqi official estimated that 90% of the force was primarily loyal to one of the two groups.
	www.tomdispatch.com /index.mhtml?pid=66969 (4853 words)

	Iraqi Sovereignty Doesn't Pass the Duck Test, by Jack Rabbit - Democratic Underground
		Any attempt by the Iraqi people to take such concerns as public safety into their own hands is not tolerated.
		Iraqis saw something else: desperately needed jobs going to Americans, Europeans and south Asians; roads crowded with trucks shipping in supplies produced in foreign plants, while Iraqi factories were not even supplied with emergency generators.
		The passing of the resolution in the UN Security Council declaring this to be an end of occupation and recognizing this as sovereignty is one of the UN's most shameful moments.
	www.democraticunderground.com /articles/04/06/29_duck.html (2851 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Terrorists Know Time Running Out as Iraqi Sovereignty Approaches
		WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2004 — As the June 30 turnover of sovereignty in Iraq to the Iraqi people approaches, terrorists trying to start a civil war in the country know their window of opportunity is closing, the Coalition Provisional Authority administrator said today.
		Though Iraqi security forces in particular have been targets of recent attacks, Bremer said, the Iraqi people are firm in their resolve and are continuing to apply for security-related positions.
		Bremer said once sovereignty is turned over to the Iraqis, the United States no longer will be an occupying force in Iraq.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Feb2004/n02152004_200412151.html (830 words)

	Iraqcoalition.org: Homepage of The New Iraq
		Questions concerning the situation in Iraq and the June 30 turnover of sovereignty dominated a June 18 roundtable interview of Secretary of State Colin Powell, but the secretary also responded to queries on Uzbekistan and the Middle East peace process.
		Addressing the preparations for returning sovereignty to Iraq, Powell said he is "impressed by the way in which the interim Iraqi government has started to function even before they have received full sovereignty," and added that "everything we've seen so far suggests it [the turnover of sovereignty] will go smoothly."
		However, the agricultural sector needs time and Iraqi government leadership to expand beyond its current state, which is "technologically still in the 1980s," said H. Lee Schalz, testifying June 16 before the House of Representatives Agriculture Committee on the status of agriculture and food needs in Iraq.
	www.cpa-iraq.org (984 words)

	Andrew Peyton Thomas on Iraqi Sovereignty on National Review Online
		To the extent that Iraqi public opinion continues to favor American military intervention (there have been conflicting polls on this of late), the U.S. military can rightly be seen as possessing political power implicitly delegated by the Iraqi people — at least until a better political arrangement can be brokered.
		Too many Iraqis will be tempted to view these acts by lawless U.S. soldiers not as isolated depravities, or even as a sordid distillation of a temporary pop culture forged by the likes of Robert Mapplethorpe and Madonna, but rather as a broad indictment of freedom and democracy.
		If a majority of Iraqis consciously reject democratic traditions, there will be nothing left for us to do but leave them to their own devices and confine our efforts there to our own national self-protection.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/thomas200405200923.asp (1203 words)

	Iraqi "Sovereignty" \| Democrats.com
		The only good thing (for the US and Iraqi puppet gov't) is that a video of this botched hanging hasn't been released into the wilds of the internet, yet, like what occured with the "death squad" lynchin' of Saddam...
		BAGHDAD, Iraq - (AP) The Iraqi government's attempt Monday to close a chapter on Saddam Hussein's repressive regime — by hanging two of his henchmen — only appeared to anger many of Saddam's fellow Sunni Muslims after the former leader's half brother was decapitated on the gallows.
		A thickset Barzan Ibrahim plunged through the trap door and was beheaded by the jerk of the thick beige rope at the end of his fall, in the same the execution chamber where Saddam was hanged a little over two weeks earlier.
	blog.democrats.com /taxonomy/term/212 (1808 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| US sets limits to Iraqi self-rule
		The US has insisted it is sticking to the planned timetable of transferring power to an interim Iraqi government after 30 June despite the upsurge of violence in Iraq.
		The veteran Kurdish leader, who holds the rotating presidency of the Iraqi Governing Council for April, added that the US-led invasion had helped the Kurds to "accomplish a major part" of their rights.
		The aim, Mr Powell said, was to win the confidence of the citizens and to persuade gunmen to lay down their arms.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3661871.stm (727 words)

	Powell Predicts Smooth Turnover of Sovereignty to Iraqi Government
		Powell also stated his belief that "the handover helps with security" and pointed to the buildup in Iraqi police, military and paramilitary forces as evidence that the Iraqi people are "willing to put themselves on the line" to ensure the security situation is brought under control.
		It becomes news when a bomb goes off outside a recruiting station, but few of the stories pointed out that these were several hundred young men who had come forward to serve their nation and to get a job, and both a job and an opportunity to serve their nation was there.
		There may be some countries out there that can make a contribution and we are looking at that, and it is also not clear the Iraqis really want more outsiders in their country, although they have expressed a willingness.
	www.cpa-iraq.org /pressreleases/20040620_quiet_transfer.html (4805 words)

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