Posted on 06/28/2004 10:25:16 PM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:16:58 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Iraqis took another step toward freedom yesterday, when Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and his colleagues each placed a hand on the Koran and promised to serve the people of Iraq. The ceremony came two days before the scheduled June 30 deadline and almost 15 months after the fall of longtime dictator Saddam Hussein. What happens over the course of the next six months will reveal whether U.S. efforts were successful. Ambassador John Negroponte will indeed have his hands full leading up to the proposed Iraqi elections in January.
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