Thursday, June 24, 2004

Transition, Sovereignty and Security

This doesn't sound like a country with a security situation stable enough for the US to transition power to a sovereign Iraqi government to me:

Insurgents launched coordinated attacks against police and government buildings across Iraq Thursday, less than a week before the handover of sovereignty. Sixty-nine people including three American soldiers were killed, and more than 270 people were wounded, Iraqi and U.S. officials said.

The large number of attacks, mostly directed at Iraqi security services, was a clear sign of just how powerful the insurgency in Iraq remains -- and could be the start of a new push to torpedo the June 30 transfer of sovereignty to an interim transitional government.

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