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BAGHDAD, June 26 -- Bremer has issued a raft of edicts
revising Iraq's legal code and appointed at least two dozen Iraqis to government jobs with multi-year terms in an attempt to promote his concepts of governance long after the planned handover of political authority on Wednesday.
The Handover was SO secretive the reporters cells phones were confiscated.
Some of the orders signed by Bremer, which
will remain in effect unless overturned by Iraq's interim government, restrict the power of the interim government and impose U.S.-crafted rules for the country's democratic transition.
Among the most controversial orders is the enactment of an elections law that gives a seven-member commission can disqualify political parties and any of the candidates they support.
Bremer has ordered that the national security adviser and the national intelligence chief chosen by the interim prime minister - Ayad Allawi,
be given five-year terms,
imposing Allawi's choices on the elected government that is to take over next year.
Bremer named:
inspectors-general for five-year terms in every ministry.
public-integrity commissioner who will have the
power to refer corrupt government officials for prosecution.
The Orders - cap tax rates at 15 percent,
prohibit piracy of intellectual property,
ban children younger than 15 from working,
traffic code that stipulates the use of a car horn in "emergency conditions only"
and requires a driver to "hold the steering wheel with both hands."
Some condemn Bremer's edicts and appointments as an effort to exert U.S. control over the country after the transfer of political authority.
A senior U.S. official in Iraq noted recently that it would "not be easy to reverse" the orders.
Iraq has long been a place where few people pay taxes, where most movies and music are counterfeit, where children often hold down jobs and where traffic laws are rarely obeyed, Iraqis note.
Other regulations promulgated by Bremer cap tax rates at 15 percent, prohibit piracy of intellectual property, ban children younger than 15 from working, and a new traffic code that stipulates the use of a car horn in "emergency conditions only" and requires a driver to "hold the steering wheel with both hands."
prevent former members of the Iraqi army from holding public office for 18 months after their retirement or resignation,
30-year minimum sentence for people caught selling weapons such as grenades and ban former militiamen integrated into the Iraqi armed forces from endorsing and campaigning for political candidates.
regulates private corporations and
amended an industrial-design law to protect microchip designs.
An anti-money-laundering law requires banks to collect detailed personal information from customers seeking to make transactions greater than $3,500,
Commission on Public Integrity has been given the power to reward whistleblowers with 25 percent of the funds recovered by the government from corrupt practices they have identified.
Suspended the death penalty, and
his election law imposes a strict quota:
One of every three candidates on a party's slate must be a woman.
future use of radioactive material,
Arab-Kurd property disputes and
national elections planned for January.
His order forbids, even after the transfer of sovereignty, any activity involving radioactive material except under requirements established by the agency.
in an effort to keep unemployed Iraqi weapons scientists from working for other nations, Bremer established the Iraqi Non-Proliferation Programs Foundation.
establish a venture capital fund to promote the commercial development of products and technologies by former employees of Iraqi weapons programs, according to the order setting up the foundation.
Establishing a Special Task Force on Compensating Victims of the Previous Regime. The task force is to
devise a means for determining the number of victims,
estimate fair compensation and
recommend a system under which claims could be made and adjudicated.
An endowment of $25 million was set aside from oil income to be used to compensate victims and their families, according to the order authorizing the task force.
Perhaps Bremer's most far-reaching and potentially contentious order is the election law, which he signed June 15.
The law states that no party can be associated with a militia or get money from one. It also requires the electoral commission to draft a code of conduct
barring campaigners from using
"hate speech,
intimidation, and
support for, the practice of and the use of terrorism."
"The notion of [the U.S.] decreeing election law prior to June 30 is unfortunate,"
Juan Cole, a University of Michigan professor who specializes in Iraq, said the appointed electoral commission's power to eliminate political parties or candidates for not obeying laws would allow it "to disqualify people someone didn't like."
"In a way, Mr. Bremer is using a more subtle form than the one used by hard-liners in Iran to control their elections," Cole said.
The country is so violent that the no commercial flights are allowed to land at Baghdad's airport.
When interviewed on ABC, after his return, Bremer said - I’m delighted to be back. Maureen Dowd - “If only our soldiers could say the same”.
I guess you could call this - Bremer’s Democracy.
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