[ppi] [ppiindia] Masyarakat Irak memerlukan kerja sama dunia untuk pemerintah baru

** ppi-india **

  Masyarakat irak ternyata mengeluh atas kekurangan dalam 
pemerintahan baru. Rasanya mereka membutuhkan dukungan sistem dan 
pendidikan pemerintahan agar bisa membangun kembali negara 
berdemokrasi.

  Semoga kestabilan dan ketentraman di Irak tetap berlanjut.

wassalam,

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Iraq Official: Iraq Not Stable Enough for Elections   
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By Andrew Marshall 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Security in Iraq (news - web sites) may be too 
precarious to hold early elections, the country's interior minister 
said Monday, as the United Nations (news - web sites) considered 
whether to send a team to see if a nationwide vote is possible. 

Washington, which failed to win U.N. backing for the war in Iraq, now 
wants the world body to play a significant political role in the 
country. 


U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) is expected to 
announce imminently whether he will send a team to Iraq to explore 
the feasibility of early elections to replace a U.S. plan to choose a 
government through regional caucuses. 


U.N. security experts are already in Iraq assessing the situation 
which remains fragile as was highlighted by a series of weekend 
attacks that left six U.S. soldiers dead. 


The U.S. military said it was still searching for three troops 
missing since Sunday in the northern city of Mosul. 


In Tokyo, Japan ordered the dispatch of an army contingent that will 
help rebuild Iraq, hours after the Defense Ministry said a Jordanian 
driver was killed when his truck carrying a mobile home for Japanese 
troops was attacked west of Baghdad. 


The attack took place Sunday, and officials in Tokyo said it did not 
appear to have been directed at Japan. 


Under U.S.-backed plan to hand over sovereignty, regional caucuses 
would select a transitional assembly by May, and the assembly would 
choose an interim government to take over sovereignty on June 30. 
Elections would follow in 2005. 


But many Iraqis have backed a demand by Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the 
country's most revered Shi'ite cleric, for elections to be held 
before sovereignty is transferred. 


Some Iraqi officials, however, say the country is not yet ready to 
hold elections given the security situation. 


"We ask for this matter to be postponed, even if it is for a short 
time, until all the political and security preparations can ensure 
that elections can run in a free and stable manner," Interior 
Minister Nouri Badran, a secular Shi'ite, told a news conference when 
asked whether Iraq could hold early elections. 


U.N. VERDICT SOUGHT 


Washington hopes Iraqis will abide by a U.N. ruling on the 
matter. "We have asked the United Nations...for a second opinion on 
this issue of is it possible to get world standard elections within 
four, five or six months before June," said U.S. Assistant Secretary 
of State for Democracy Lorne Craner. 


Diplomats at the United Nations said Annan may not give details on 
the timing of the U.N. mission to Baghdad or who would lead it, but 
it was expected to go next month. 


They said Annan would probably link the departure to a U.N. security 
assessment, required since two suicide bomb attacks on the U.N. 
headquarters in Baghdad last year prompted the world body to withdraw 
all international staff. 


In Rome, Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) defended the 
war that toppled Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), despite mounting 
criticism over failure to find weapons of mass destruction. 


"Today the former dictator sits in captivity; he can no longer harbor 
and support terrorists, and his long efforts to acquire weapons of 
mass destruction are at an end," Cheney told Italian political and 
business leaders. 

In a speech in the Italian Senate, he made no other mention of 
earlier U.S. charges that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons -- 
the heart of the U.S. case for the war on Iraq. 

David Kay, who quit last week as chief U.S. arms hunter, has said he 
no longer believes Saddam had stockpiles of biological and chemical 
weapons. 

Ten months after the U.S.-led invasion to oust Saddam, insurgent 
violence has yet to abate. Weekend bomb attacks in Iraq killed six 
American soldiers and four Iraqis. 

At least 513 American soldiers have died in Iraq since the start of 
the war, 355 in combat. 

The military was still searching Monday for three missing U.S. 
servicemen. One was a soldier whose patrol boat capsized, and the 
other two were the crew of a Kiowa helicopter which crashed into the 
river during search-and-rescue efforts. 

The U.S. Army said the capsizing and helicopter crash were not due to 
hostile fire. 

Gunmen attacked Iraqi police in the restive town of Ramadi Sunday, 
killing three officers. A fourth died of his wounds Monday. 
Guerrillas have repeatedly targeted Iraqi police. 

A roadside bomb in Baghdad killed one Iraqi and wounded two Monday.



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