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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
But this isn't all that clear. Note the following from your own link:
- There seems to be a contradiction in the press reporting, with some saying that the US accepted a provision that the arrest warrant against Muqtada be suspended for the time being, while this Reuters report seems to suggest that the U.S. would still very much like to apprehend him. If the latter is true, it would help explain his reluctance to come out in public at a time when he has agreed to dissolve his militia in the holy cities, and when his fighters in Kufa, in any case, have taken heavy casualties.
And here's the rub. Too many competing reporters with too many competing agendas are all too quick to report a story.
Without being there, neither of us have a clue.
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I guess the bottom line is that we didn't apprehend him and we seem to have cut a deal where we're going to stop trying.
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PS - The appointment of the exile Allawi over the not-so-silent relcutance of [UN puppet] Brahimi has to be seen as a victory for the US, no?
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I haven't the foggiest idea. But since it was Bush's call to bring Brahimi back in, I wouldn't be too quick to assume that what's bad for him is good for us. As S_A_M suggests above, it's at least possible that the IGC just gamed us by announcing its own candidate before we or Brahimi had reached a verdict.
eta: Take a look at
Josh Marshall's site, where he has collected various press accounts about the naming of Allawi. The story has changed a lot during the day, but at least some people now are reporting this as Brahimi's choice. I have no idea what is going on here.
