U.N. Chief Backs Iraqi Council

Washington Post ^ | 07/21/03 | Rajiv Chandrasekaran

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Annan Urges Support for U.S. Creation

BAGHDAD, July 20 -- U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has given a report to members of the U.N. Security Council urging them to endorse the new Governing Council created by the U.S.-led occupation authority in Iraq, calling it "a broadly representative partner with whom the United Nations and the international community at large can engage."

Annan's recommendation, which was delivered to Security Council members Friday but is not to be released to the public until Monday, is an important show of support for the Governing Council, a 25-member body whose members were selected by the occupation authority to assume responsibility for numerous day-to-day tasks.

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Well, several things wrong with the article. First of all Sadar is a young cleric without religious authority, and the clerics who demanded the protest break up were the learned scholars of Najef. Other than those two hawking errors, not a bad article.