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Two Defense Department civilians and an Iraqi translator were killed in a March 9 attack in Hillah, Iraq, coalition officials said today. Senior Coalition Provisional Authority spokesman Dan Senor told reporters at a Baghdad news briefing that the FBI is leading an investigation of the incident. He said some details in wire reports of the attack are incorrect, but he declined to specify which ones. "The facts are still coming out," he said, "and we're going to wait on the investigation." He added the coalition will release the names of the dead when their families have been notified, and would...

Coalition Provisional Authority administrator L. Paul Bremer III signed a letter approving the Iraqi interim constitution late March 8, CPA chief spokesman Dan Senor said today in Baghdad. Senor told reporters that Bremer, the top American official in Iraq, thanked Iraqi Governing Council President Mohammed Bahr al-Ulloum and the council's other 24 members for their efforts. Senor then read from a letter Bremer had forwarded to Bahr al-Ulloum: "Dear Mr. President: The Coalition Provisional Authority congratulates you and the Governing Council on the signing today of the transitional administrative law for the state of Iraq. The law joins the best...

The United States will provide technical support for the trial of Saddam Hussein, but the Iraqi people will have the primary role in bringing the deposed dictator to justice, a senior U.S. official said today. Dan Senor, chief spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority, pointed out during a Baghdad press briefing that civilian administrator L. Paul Bremer III met today with a delegation of U.S. Justice Department legal experts recently arrived in the country. As American and Iraqi legalists develop the format to bring Hussein and others before justice for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, Senor said the...

Coalition officials in Iraq today struck down rumors surrounding the capture of would-be, failed bombers connected to the March 2 attacks that killed scores and injured hundreds of Shiia pilgrims in Baghdad and Karbala. Senior coalition spokesman Dan Senor and Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy operations director for Combined Joint Task Force 7, addressed the rumors at a Baghdad news conference. Kimmitt said the night before the explosions, a car approached a checkpoint in Basra, and several people jumped out and ran away. It was treated as a car bomb and soldiers conducted two controlled explosions to neutralize it,...

(Participating were Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operations, Combined Joint Task Force 7, and Dan Senor, senior advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority.) Senor: Good evening. We apologize for the delay in getting started, the having to postpone. You know, we normally try to stick to 5:00, and we try to stick to it and start promptly. Tonight is an exception. I just have a couple words about Ambassador Bremer's schedule today, and then General Kimmitt will have an opening statement, and then we'll be happy to take your questions. Ambassador Bremer today began meeting with members...

Coalition officials in Baghdad expressed strong support today for a United Nations plan to send a team to evaluate the feasibility of holding direct elections before June 30. Dan Senor, senior coalition spokesman, told reporters in Baghdad that he welcomes U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's announcement that he will dispatch a security team to Iraq. The team will assess the security situation on the ground to determine the feasibility of sending an electoral team. Annan announced the plan today in Paris, where he is meeting with French President Jacques Chirac. His decision marks the most significant expansion of the United...

The Coalition Provisional Authority has asked the United Nations to send a team of advisors to take a look at the viability of direct elections in Iraq. The request comes just months before the June 30 handover of sovereignty in the country, a timetable set by a Nov. 15 agreement and strongly supported by President Bush. Dan Senor, the CPA's senior spokesperson, said today in a briefing from Baghdad that CPA officials met with the U.N. Security Council and U.N. Secretary- General Kofi Annan last week to request the deployment a technical team to Iraq. "We've asked the U.N. to...

The Iraqi Governing Council's announcement of its new "de-Baathification" policies and procedures Jan. 11 was welcomed by the administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority, coalition spokesman Dan Senor said at a briefing in Baghdad today. The Baath Party – also known by its formal name, the Baath Arab Socialist Party -- is the political party of Saddam Hussein. Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III signed the first de-Baathification decree May 16 and delegated authority to the governing council Nov. 4, said Senor. "Ambassador Bremer said the governing council now has full command of de-Baathification," said Senor. "The policy is appropriately tough...

Coalition personnel are working with the Iraqi Ministry of Oil to head off gasoline smuggling, sabotage of the oil industry infrastructure and black-market profiteering. Officials said these continue to be among the greatest problems facing the Iraqi people. Coalition spokesman Dan Senor and Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the operations deputy at Combined Joint Task Force 7, briefed the press in Baghdad today. Senor talked about steps the coalition is making to combat the gas shortage that is plaguing life in Iraq. Senor cited a number of causes to the gasoline shortage, which has made for long gas lines at...

<p>White House Web site guests got some straight talk about postwar Iraq yesterday from Dan Senor, senior adviser to L. Paul Bremer, who's spearheading the multinational rebuilding effort in the war-torn country.</p> <p>Mr. Senor, who has spent the last six months in Iraq, answered questions submitted online as part of "Ask the White House," a live, public forum that has featured more than 50 Bush administration officials since April.</p>

Privacy Policy   Welcome to "Ask the White House" -- an online interactive forum where you can submit questions to Bush administration officials. Visit the "Ask the White House" archive to read other discussions with White House officials. Dan Senor Biography Dan SenorHi, I'm Dan Senor. I'm in Washington for a few days after having spent the last 6 months in Iraq. I've been working for Ambassador Bremer on a number of reconstruction, policy and communication issues. I'll be returning to Iraq within the next two weeks but look forward to answering your questions on the reconstruction while I'm here....