Al-Zarqawi Says Iraq’s PM Allawi Marked For Assassination

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Today’s car-bombers ought to think over a lesson their new Prime Minister learned the hard way: You can’t just take over a country by blowing up random humans. You’ve got to work hard your whole life, and maybe, someday, if you play your cards right and take just enough money from just the right people, you can take over the job of pretending to rule a country full of people that want to kill you.



It seems that being the first Prime Minister of Iraq’s new Democratic Era could be a tough job. On the one hand, there’s the 160,000 heavily armed foreign soldiers in the country who won’t be leaving until things calm down and someone starts to make some serious money out of this whole disaster. On the other, twenty-five million people live in the country, and at best they think that Iyad Allawi is a corrupt puppet (Marketplace quoted wealthy businessmen who nominated him ‘most likely to sell his influence for money.’) At the less favorable end, they are holding rocket launchers and AK-47s and are actively working to throw the foreign fighters and the new PM’s entire entourage (popularly known as ‘the imported government’) out.

In reality though, Allawi’s main jobs will be to keep himself alive, follow orders, and be a good spokesperson. Iraq will be controlled as much as is possible by Americans, partly by the military who will continue with their brutal occupation, and now also from the largest US Embassy in the world.

Hours after Paul Bremer fled Baghdad, his true successor arrived. John Negroponte is the perfect man for the job. His last post was ambassador to the UN, where he smoothly yet unsuccessfully tried to sell the Iraq war. But his best experience for the position was earned as ambassador to Honduras, at that time under a military dictatorship, where he was alleged to be a central figure in the support of the Contras in Nicaragua and of ‘Battalion 316’, the CIA-trained military intelligence group that carried out torture, kidnappings and murders in Honduras.

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