Three-stage Power Transfer Unveiled as Garner in Iraq to Take Reins

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Three-stage Power Transfer Unveiled as Garner in Iraq to Take Reins

The US military unveiled a three-stage power transfer Monday as a retired US general arrived to take reins in postwar Iraq.

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The US military unveiled a three-stage power transfer Monday as a retired US general arrived to take reins in postwar Iraq.

The military pledged on the newly established Information Radio that they would restore security in the country in the first stage of transition.

The US forces would stop the rampant looting and violence that plagued Iraqi cities after the downfall of the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein, the radio said.

The second stage would see the forming of interim administration to ensure basic services and supplies to the Iraqi people. The third stage involves free elections across the country for Iraqi leadership to take charge of the country's affairs, the radio added.

Meanwhile, the US civil administrator of Iraq, Jay Garner, was in Baghdad to head an Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance.

"We will be here as long as it takes. We will leave fairly rapidly," he told reporters at Baghdad airport after being flown from neighboring Kuwait.

There has been no official saying about how long the transition period will last, but British officials believe that the first stage may take at least three months.

Garner, 64, a three-star general until his retirement from the military in 1997, also dismissed the self-claimed leadership by Iraqi exile Mohammed Mohsen Zubeidi.

He said he did not know Zubeidi and the latter's Baghdad executive committee.

"We don't really know much about him except that he's declared himself mayor. We don't recognize him," Garner said. Zubeidi, who returned home after years in exile, named himself mayor of Baghdad last week amid power vacuum and chaos triggered by war.

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