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Interim Iraqi govt by mid-May: Garner

Major Iraqi factions to run country

Reuters, afp, Baghdad
The US civil administrator of Iraq, Jay Garner, said on Monday a collective interim leadership should be set up in Iraq by the middle of May.
"By the middle of the month, you'll really see a beginning of a nucleus of an Iraqi government with an Iraqi face on it that is dealing with the coalition," said the retired US general, in charge of postwar reconstruction in Iraq.
Garner said he expected up to nine Iraqis to form an interim leadership group that would be a point of contact for the Americans.
The group would consist of some returned exiles and some local Iraqis, representing Iraq's ethnic and religious spectrum.
Iraqis are angry at a breakdown in security and public services since the US-led war to topple president Saddam Hussein ended.
Iraqi preachers demanded on Friday that the United States establish a government to restore order after President Bush declared the war effectively over.
AFP adds: Up to nine Iraqis representing different opposition factions are to run an interim government to help rebuild the country in the coming months, US civil administrator Jay Garner told reporters Monday.
"I think what you may see is as
many as seven, eight, nine leaders working together to provide leadership," said Garner, adding he did not know how the collective leadership would function specifically.
The retired lieutenant general referred to Massoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Ahmad Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress, Jalal Talabani of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Iyad Allawi of the Iraqi National Accord, and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, whose elder brother heads the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
Garner said that group would likely be expanded to include a Christian and perhaps another Sunni figure.
Speaking as he prepared to leave on a one-day visit of Iraq's southern capital Basra, Garner said he expected the newly-appointed career diplomat Paul Bremer to arrive by next week and take charge of the political process within the postwar US administration.
"He will get more involved in the political process. I'm doing all of it and don't want to do all of it.
"We really need a dedicated effort," on the political side, Garner said.
He said that the appointment of someone like Bremer had been planned all along.
"I'll stay a while. There's got to be a good handoff," he said.
Garner also touched on the efforts to get Iraq's public services back up and running.
"The month of May is a key month for getting all the public services stood up or at least with a good prospect of being stood up and getting the law enforcement system back, " Garner said, responding to the stringent criticism of the slow pace of rebuilding since Baghdad fell on April 9.
He voiced disappointment that the Americans had been unable to launch an extensive television and radio broadcast system for Iraq so far.
"We haven't done a good job," Garner admitted.
"I want TV going to the people ... with a soft demeanor, programs they want to see."
Garner noted that the selfproclaimed mayor of Baghdad, Mohammed Mohsen al-Zubaidi, who was arrested by US forces, had been released after two days.
The condition for his release was that he not resume his activity of asserting authority in Baghdad, the general said. "I understand he was released after 48 hours," Garner said.
He was to visit a school, a hospital and an oil refinery as well as hold talks with a sheikh in Basra on Monday.