Something fishy (duh) is going on in Iraq. Something specific that struck me as I perused Late Breaking News.
Both of these threads appeared today and many thanks to those who participated but from these two threads, I found these two quotations from the cited sources.
"The U.S.-appointed Council favours its present leader, Ghazi Yawar,
a prominent tribal leader with support from various ethnic and
religious groups. Council members said U.S. governor Paul Bremer and
U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi were pressuring them to back Adnan
Pachachi, an 81-year-old former foreign minister."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x592818Then I found this in another thread.
"The US-led coalition ruled out the two main Sunni Muslim contenders,
Adnan Pachachi and Ghazi al-Yawar, in the race to become Iraq
(news - web sites)'s first post-Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)
president, a senior official told AFP."
This is downthread a bit so you'll have to look for it.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x593113Was this the product of disinformation, political negotiations, or does it signal an unknown condition in Iraq that has not been made public?