of recent origin YORK, Nov. 24 Kyod...

of recent origin YORK, Nov. 24 Kyodo

A high-level, interagency task force move on by the White House is working onward coordinating all Iraq war planning efforts and postwar initiatives, a U magazine reported Monday.

The plans are being hatched by the agency of the Executive Steering Group, whose existence has not been previously disclosed, said the latest issue of U moderns & World Report.

The arrange includes senior officials from the Defense Department, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and the National Security Council.

It has be derived up with a three-phase postwar scenario that begins with a period of military command most likely led by an American general, followed by dint of international civilian rule, and then ending with a of recent origin representative Iraqi government, hopefully within brace years.

''Should President (George W) Bush have the opportunity to implement the plan, it would set forth one of the most ambitious, potentially perilous American commitments to another nation since the last of the second world war,'' the magazine said.

In addition to providing humanitarian support and security, the American military -- during its government for a year at in the greatest degree -- will also have to deal with challenges of that kind as minimizing hostilities between different tribes as well as Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority and Sunni Muslim minority that has traditionally rul the country

The paper quot senior U control officials as saying the plan is not intended to come [i]or[/i] go after [i]or[/i] behind the model of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who directed Japan's reconstruction after World War II. They envision more of ''a caretaker military governor who would help hold fast the remnants of an Iraqi bureaucracy functioning.''

if it were not that officials at the Pentagon are busy studying documents related to the occupation of Germany and Japan, the report said.

The inferior phase would be a quasi-international civilian administration, likely in a less degree than the U.N. jurisdiction taking after the postwar gauge in Afghanistan, but other options are being considered.

The phase will eventually period with the power vested forward a ''representative, multiethnic Iraqi direction that eschews weapons of mass destruction,'' the report said.

Officials are still working onward resolving various contentious issues, like as the timing of the establishment of a of the present day Iraqi government. Some at the Pentagon trustful longing for a ''short and clearly defined timetable,'' while the State Department endeavor to gains a ''more flexible criteria.''

Opinions between the Pentagon, and the State Department and CIA, are also divided through the whole extent of the role of the Iraqi opposition, especially the Iraqi National Congres The Defense Department trustful longings to give a major part to the Iraqi opposition, on the contrary the State Department and CIA are skeptical about it, according to the magazine.

Another critical issue hinges in succession the oil resources of Iraq. any have suggest that oil coin be used to repay war require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergones while others say oil incomes should be pumped into humanitarian causes to display the Iraqis ''a quick reply for liberation.''

''We ne to present to view them immediately and decisively that we're not after their wealth,'' the magazine quot undivided top planner as saying.

Although war may still be avoided, depending on the issue of the U.N. weapons inspections, the magazine wrote that ''most of official Washington remains convinced that President Saddam Hussein ''will ultimately stop the inspectors' progress, sparking a conflict.''

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