war of words 2 article – us general would run iraq
from http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20030213/ts_usatoday/4863221
Secretary of State Colin Powell told Congress on Wednesday that a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq would be run by a U.S. general using many of the bureaucrats who administer the country now.
Powell spoke as the Bush administration firmed up plans for a military occupation of Iraq that would leave the country’s Sunni Arab minority in control and permit Turkish troops to be stationed inside northern Iraq, over the vehement objections of Iraqi Kurds.
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Leaders of Iraqi opposition groups briefed in Turkey last week by Zalmay Khalilzad, the top U.S. envoy for Iraq, said many of the administration plans are deeply troubling. A reliance on the current government infrastructure would continue the dominance of Arab Sunnis, who represent 10%-15% of the country’s 22 million population. The majority, 60%-70%, are Arab Shiites. Most of the rest are Kurds, an ethnic group that has enjoyed relative independence for the past decade under the protection of U.S. and British air patrols.