BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Regardless of Security Council resolutions and other legal documents, it is the insurgents who will determine how much genuine authority the newly sovereign Iraqi government will have as it begins the march to democratic rule.
Insurgents even influenced the pace of the transfer of sovereignty from the U.S.-run Coalition Provisional Authority to the appointed government of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. The handover had been expected Wednesday but was pushed forward two days - in large part to prevent the militants from disrupting the historic step.
No advance word about the change in handover plans was announced. Instead, journalists were summoned early Monday to what they were told was a short-notice press conference by the outgoing U.S. governor, L. Paul Bremer.
Only after journalists were ushered into a conference room and their mobile phones taken were they told what they were about to witness.
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