Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by McClatchy News Services, "Iraqi Leaders Veto Bill Touted as Political Benchmark."
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Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by McClatchy News Services, "Iraqi Leaders Veto Bill Touted as Political Benchmark."
Iraq's three-man presidency council on Wednesday announced its veto of legislation whose passage in parliament U.S. officials had hailed two weeks ago as a key benchmark.
Also Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said he hoped that Turkey's incursion into northern Iraq to fight Kurdish rebels would last a "week or two" but "not months."
Turkish news agencies reported that up to 77 guerrillas were killed the night before in the most violent night of the week-old incursion on Iraq's northern border. A rebel spokesman said fighters for the Kurdish Workers Party, known as the PKK, had killed 18 Turkish soldiers. [...]
Anthony Cordesman, a Middle East expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., said the law is badly needed to define the role of provinces and the central government and set ground rules for any future discussion on federation.
"The key issue is whether the presidency council sent the law back for the right reasons and if parliament will improve the law rather than oppose further delays," he said.
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